Wikipedia:Suhail Dabbach

Suhail Dabbach (born 1965) is an American-Iraqi actor.

Early life and education
Suhail Dabbach was born in Iraq in 1965. He earned his bachelors degree in Fine Arts from Baghdad College of Fine Arts, University of Baghdad in 1990. In 1997, he left Iraq to live in Jordan. In 2008, while residing in Jordan he got a role of suicide bomber in the movie The Hurt Locker. After the release of the movie, he and his family were moved to Albuquerque in New Mexico where they stayed for around 12 years.

Currently, he is married to Hanna and has three children; one daughter and two sons.

Acting career
Before going international, Dabbach was quite active in Iraqi cinema. But, he fled after Saddam Hussein put his son Uday Hussein in charge of the film censorship.

In 2007, Dabbach's first Hollywood acting break through Brian De Palma's Redacted. Later in 2008 he appeared as a "repentant suicide bomber" begging for his life in Kathryn Bigelow's The Hurt Locker. In 2020, the movie was selected for preservation.

In 2019, he appeared in Matthew Michael Carnahan's Netflix original Mosul. He played the role of Major Jasem, the leader of Nineveh SWAT, who leads a team of 10 members against ISIS in the city of Mosul. The movie was based on a true account of a rogue Nineveh SWAT team.