Salim Dau is a theatre, film and television actor, and a graduate of the Beit Zvi School for the Performing Arts. Dau shot to fame in 1986 when he was cast as the lead in Rafi Bukai’s critically-acclaimed Avanti Popolo. He later continued to star and feature in a host of films including A Thousand and One Wives (Michal Bat Adam, 1991), The Quarry (Ron Ninio, 1990), Cup Final (Eran Riklis, 1991), The Flying Camel (Rami Na’aman, 1994), James’ Journey to Jerusalem (Ra’anan Alexandrowicz, 2003), The Last Band in Lebanon (Ben Bachar and Itzik Kricheli, 2016), Tel Aviv on Fire (Sameh Zoabi, 2018), and The Dead of Jaffa (Ram Loevy, 2019). His TV series credits include Prisoners of War, Arab Labor, Fauda, and many more.
When he’s not working in film and television, Dau is stage regular and has appeared in countless plays; chiefly on the Haifa Theatre stages. Between 2007-2010, he was the director of Haifa’s Al-Midan Theatre.