Yigal Naor

Yigal Naor
Born	1958 (age 65–66) Givatayim, Israel
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1987–present

Yigal Naor (Hebrew: יגאל נאור‎; born 1958) is an Israeli actor.

Naor was born in Givatayim of Iraqi Jewish descent. He has appeared in the American films Munich, Green Zone and Rendition. Naor portrayed Saddam Hussein in the four-episode House of Saddam television docudrama from BBC and HBO (2008), in an acclaimed performance. In Season 5, Episode 4 of Homeland, he portrays General Youssef, a high-ranking Syrian military officer whom the CIA wants to install in place of Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad.

Filmography

• Deadline (1987)
• Saint Clara (1996)
• Bonjour Monsieur Shlomi (2003)
• Miss Entebbe (2003)
• Munich (2005)
• Rendition (2007)
• Djihad! (2007)
• House of Saddam (2008)
• Occupation (2009)
• Green Zone (2010)
• The Infidel (2010)
• I Am Slave (2010)
• The Grass Crown (2012)
• Sinbad (2012)
• Dead Europe (2012)
• Ambassadors (2013)
• The Honourable Woman (2014) TV series
• 300: Rise of an Empire (2014)
• Homeland (2015)
• False Flag (2015)

Awards and nominations

Year	Nominated work	Category	Award	Result	Notes	Citation
1996	Saint Clara	Best Supporting Actor	Ophir Award	Won

External links

• Yigal Naor at the Internet Movie Database
• Cast biography on the microsite for HBO's House of Saddam