Moe Bar-El

Bar-El was born in Shiraz^[1] and moved to London with his mother and brother when he was ten. He attended City and Islington College,^[2] where he pursued a Level 3 BTEC National Diploma in Performing Arts from 2010 to 2012.^[3] He then trained part-time at Identity School of Acting for three years.^[4][5] He speaks Persian and English.

After appearing in short films and Bola Agbaje's web series Hot Pepper, Bar-El made his television debut in 2016 when he joined the main cast of the French Canal+ political thriller The Bureau for its second season as Shapur Zamani. In 2018, he made his professional stage debut in Moormaid at the Arcola Theatre^[6] and Every Day I Make Greatness Happen at the Hampstead Theatre. For the latter, Bar-El was nominated for Outstanding Achievement in an Affiliate Theatre at the 2019 Laurence Olivier Awards.^[7] He appeared in the San Francisco production of The Jungle.^[8]

In 2020, Bar-El played Karim in the first season of the Apple TV+ spy thriller Tehran and starred as Rahmat Sulemani in the ITV drama Honour.^[9] He made his feature film debut with a small role in the 2021 Dutch drama Mitra. He had recurring roles as Reece in the 2022 Amazon Prime science fiction series The Peripheral and Artem in the 2023 BBC One crime drama Better. He went on the Paines Plough tour of You Bury Me.^[10]