Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#14817
of 909177 performers
Top 5%
Amr Waked works on versatility rather than volume, and the catalogue keeps proving that the quieter choice was the correct one.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
Amr Waked appears in 10 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Amr. Eagles of the Republic is the clearest case: a film rated 6.9 by our editors, where the performance carries weight the script only implies.
The recognisable elements are versatility, transformation, quiet performance. Watch two of these films back to back and the method separates from the material — the same instrument, tuned differently for drama, thriller, history. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Tarik Saleh, Harris Dickinson, Philippe Lacheau and others, Amr Waked helped set a standard other performers now audition against. Awards bodies have been slower than the work, which is usually the sign of a career built on choices rather than campaigns.
Eagles of the Republic (2025) as Dr. Mansour · Urchin (2025) as Franco · Lucy (2014) as Pierre Del Rio
Career snapshot
Ranked #14817 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
10
2005–2025
Career length
20 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
6.9
Eagles of the Republic
Average Nutevio score
5.8
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
6.9
Eagles of the Republic
Most frequent director
Tarik Saleh
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Tarik Saleh
Most common genre
Drama
6 titles
Average runtime
1h 41m
Across catalogue work
Golden Globe wins
—
Unknown
Nutevio metric
Ten weighted categories, applied identically to everyone we cover.
Nutevio Performer Score
6.8
out of 10
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio metric
Cultural impact and legacy, measured separately from craft — how far the work travelled once it left the cinema.
Nutevio Influence Score
6.2
out of 10
A quieter influence — felt inside the films rather than across the industry.
How far the work travelled past the people who saw it first.
What survives once the release-week conversation has burned off.
Institutional acknowledgement, weighted but never decisive.
Years of chosen, relevant work rather than years merely employed.
Statuettes, read as evidence rather than verdict.
Roles named without needing the film named alongside them.
Directors who wrote parts because this performer existed.
The reading other performers now have to answer.
Actor DNA
A fingerprint derived from the roles themselves — register, range and the kind of film they carry.
The shape of a career
Every performance plotted in time. Hover a point to read the title behind it.
Peak years
Where the scores, the awards and the sheer volume of work agree with each other.
Best decade
2000s
6.4 average MV
The 2000s are where the work and the material meet. Syriana — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2000s
6.4
Across 1 catalogue film in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2000s
6.4
The public agrees most strongly about this stretch — useful context, and occasionally a decade behind our own reading.
Most awarded era
2000s
0 Academy Awards
Statuettes for the films themselves, which is the honest way to read an ensemble career. Syriana.
Most productive era
2020s
6 films
The busiest stretch of the catalogue — volume that reads as appetite rather than availability.
Range, mapped
Genres down the side, decades across the top. Warmer cells mean stronger titles.
| Genre | 2000s | 2010s | 2020s |
|---|---|---|---|
| Drama | 6.41 film | 6.41 film | 5.04 films |
| Action | — | 6.32 films | 6.32 films |
| Thriller | 6.41 film | 6.11 film | 6.62 films |
| Comedy | — | 6.41 film | 6.31 film |
| Romance | — | 6.41 film | — |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2005Syriana
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Mohammed Sheik Agiza.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
6.9 on the Nutevio scale, the top of the catalogue for this performer. Weighing billing against the film's own quality, this is the point where everything aligned at once.
Most recent film
2025Urchin
The current state of the argument, as Franco.
Our order
Every performance in the catalogue, ordered by Nutevio Score.
Every title
Filter by genre or decade, and compare any two titles side by side.
10 of 10 films
as Pierre Del Rio
Directed by Luc Besson
as Sheikh Muhammad
Directed by Lasse Hallström
From the library
Every movie and TV credit stored for this name in the Nutevio catalogue — filter by media, role or sort by rating.
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The defining work
#1
Dr. Mansour
Eagles of the Republic (2025)
Performance score7.1
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Dr. Mansour gives Amr Waked a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Franco
Urchin (2025)
Performance score6.9
Urchin asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Franco is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Pierre Del Rio
Lucy (2014)
Performance score6.7
Lucy asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Pierre Del Rio is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Sheikh Muhammad
Salmon Fishing in the Yemen (2012)
Performance score6.6
Salmon Fishing in the Yemen asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Sheikh Muhammad is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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A guided path through the work, ordered so each film explains the next.
Best entry point
as Dr. Mansour
Start here. Eagles of the Republic is the clearest statement of what Amr Waked does — accessible, 128 minutes, and rated 6.9 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Amr at the most legible performance, then move forward in time so each film reads as a response to the one before it rather than a repetition of it.
Salmon Fishing in the Yemen (2012)
Keeps the drama register of Eagles of the Republic but asks for a colder reading of it.
Lucy (2014)
A deliberate change of key after Salmon Fishing in the Yemen — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Firebrand (2024)
A deliberate change of key after Lucy — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Urchin (2025)
Keeps the drama register of Firebrand but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Stephen Gaghan
Director
1 film together
Notably Syriana
Lasse Hallström
Director
1 film together
Notably Salmon Fishing in the Yemen
Luc Besson
Director
1 film together
Notably Lucy
Dean Devlin
Director
1 film together
Notably Geostorm
Patty Jenkins
Director
1 film together
Notably Wonder Woman 1984
Philippe Lacheau
Director
1 film together
Notably Superwho?
Harris Dickinson
Director
1 film together
Notably Urchin
Tarik Saleh
Director
1 film together
Notably Eagles of the Republic
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Tarik Saleh
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Eagles of the RepublicHarris Dickinson
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
UrchinLuc Besson
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
LucyPatty Jenkins
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Wonder Woman 1984Lasse Hallström
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Salmon Fishing in the YemenStephen Gaghan
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
SyrianaPhilippe Lacheau
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Superwho?Dean Devlin
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
GeostormSix degrees
Follow the thread outward — director, film, co-star, and the film after that.
Categories of our own
Six editorial categories we apply to every performer we cover.
Most rewatchable
Eagles of the Republic
as Dr. Mansour
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Firebrand
as El Farabi
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Eagles of the Republic
as Dr. Mansour
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Geostorm
as Ray Dussette
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Eagles of the Republic
as Dr. Mansour
If the career had to be argued in a single scene, our editors would pick one from this film and rest the case.
In their films' words
“You can build a whole film around a performer who knows when not to speak. Amr Waked has known it for a long time.”
Head to head
Put two careers on the same scale and see where the argument actually sits.
Ours alone
Recognitions handed out by this desk, on criteria no awards body uses.
Career Achievement
Awarded
20 years of relevant work — not merely a long career, but a long career of choices.
Modern Classic Performer
Awarded
Defining performances delivered inside the last twenty-five years, in films already being taught rather than merely remembered.
Drama Legend
Awarded
6 catalogue titles in drama, each one a reference point for the films that followed.
Our desk
Best ending, best opening, best twist and the rest — categories we apply to everyone we cover.
Best ending
Eagles of the Republic
as Dr. Mansour
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Eagles of the Republic
as Dr. Mansour
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Firebrand
as El Farabi
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Wonder Woman 1984
as Emir Said Bin Abydos
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Wonder Woman 1984
as Emir Said Bin Abydos
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Wonder Woman 1984
as Emir Said Bin Abydos
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Salmon Fishing in the Yemen
as Sheikh Muhammad
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Wonder Woman 1984
as Emir Said Bin Abydos
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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