Makram Kohury is a stage, film, and television actor, and theatre director. In 1987, Khoury became the first Arab-Israeli artist to have won the Israel Prize in the Theatre category. He was also the winner of an Ophir Award in the Best Lead Actor category for his performance in Guy Nattiv and Erez Tadmor’s 2013 film, Magic Men. In his youth, Khoury studied at London’s Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts and on his return to Israel, he joined the Haifa Theatre’s actors company. And though Khoury’s work is chiefly synonymous with his Haifa home theatre, he has nevertheless graced the stages of just about every repertoire theatre in Israel. Khoury is also a theatre director and has previously headed Haifa’s Al-Midan Theatre.
In 2009, Khoury appeared in Peter Brook’s Parisian production of his play, 11 and 12 (The Life and Gospel of Tierno Bokar), then in 2015, he took over the role of Shylock in the Royal Shakespeare Company’s production of The Merchant of Venice. Highlights of his Israeli stage credits include Waiting for Godot, Bent, Jerusalem Syndrome, Eddie King, The Caucasian Chalk Circle, Hedda Gabler, Whiners (aka ‘the crybabies’), and The Cherry Orchard.
Highlights of his TV credits include Michel Ezra Safra and Sons, The West Wing, Homeland, and Prisoners of War.
Highlights of his film credits include My Mother the General (Joel Silberg, 1979), Big Shots (Jacob Goldwasser, 1982), On a Narrow Bridge (Nissim Dayan, 1985), The Smile of the Lamb (Shimon Dotan, 1986), Crossfire (aka ‘esh tzolevet’) (Gideon Ganani, 1989), Double Edge (Amos Kollek, 1992), The Milky Way (Ali Nassar, 1997), The Barbecue People (Yossi Madmoni and David Ofek, 2002), The Syrian Bride (Eran Riklis, 2004), Free Zone (Amos Gitai, 2005), Munich (Steven Spielberg, 2005), Forgiveness (Udi Aloni, 2006), Sweets (Joseph Pitchhadze, 2013), Wounded Land (Erez Tadmor, 2015), A Tale of Love and Darkness (Natalie Portman, 2015), Abulele (Jonathan Geva, 2015), Everything is Broken up and Dances (Nony Geffen, 2016), and Spider in the Web (Eran Riklis, 2019).
