Haaz Sleiman (هاز سليمان; born July 1, 1976) is a Lebanese actor.
2006
In 2006, Sleiman portrayed an American soldier in Iraq on the NBC series ER and, that same year, had a recurring role as an Arab billionaire in the CBS series Company Town.
Sleiman also had small roles in the 2006 film American Dreamz and the 2007 film AmericanEast.
2007
He most notably played the role of Tarek in the 2007 film The Visitor for which he was nominated for the Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Male and the role of Jesus in the American TV mini-series Killing Jesus, in addition to a number of American TV series.
Sleiman was born in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and raised in Beirut, Lebanon.
He immigrated to the United States when he was twenty-one years old.
He portrayed the terrorist suspect Heydar in three 2007 episodes of the FOX series 24 and appeared on both NCIS and Veronica Mars in 2007.
He co-starred as Tarek, an undocumented Syrian immigrant in the critically acclaimed 2007 independent film The Visitor, a drama directed by Tom McCarthy.
The film was nominated for a Screen Actors Guild Award and an Academy Award.
2009
Sleiman played nurse Mohammed "Mo-Mo" De La Cruz in the first season of the Showtime dark comedy series Nurse Jackie, which premiered in June 2009.
2011
In 2011, Sleiman played the role of Omar, a Palestinian activist, in the Channel 4 mini-series The Promise.
Sleiman also played the role of Kasim Tariq in the CW Network TV show Nikita; he appeared in two episodes.
Sleiman played Dr Rabia, a Syrian doctor in Channel 4's The State.
2013
In 2013, Sleiman started as the titular character in the short lived Off-Broadway musical Venice.
In an interview with the Christian Broadcasting Network, Sleiman said that he is Muslim, Christian, and Jewish.
2017
On August 22, 2017, he came out as gay via a Facebook video.
