
Acting
Hani Al Naimi (birth-name Michael Anthony Desante) is an Arab American actor, writer and director of Palestinian descent. He was born in Bethlehem and spent the beginning years of his childhood in Beirut, Lebanon. At age 9 he attended Fettes College for Boys in Edinburgh, Scotland and then Hurtwood House in Surrey, England where he completed his school. His interest in acting started at an early age with school play renditions of Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night Dream" and "Much Ado About Nothing." He was 12 when Andrew Lloyd Webber came to his school to cast his play "Joseph and His Technicol…

Ruthless
as Rich Barker

Black Warrant
as Hussein Bin Farri

Last Stop
as Hank

Harodim
as The Terrorist

The Portal
as Charlie Jessup

The Hurt Locker
as Iraqi Translator
The Road to Empire
as Dr. Marciano

Soldier of God
as Yaqut

Cradle 2 the Grave
as Egyptian Buyer