Meet Samir Ali, a new face for a new decade.
season. He currently has eight show credits to his name, but there will certainly be more because he has a presence and confidence that belies his age and experience.
Ali, who was scouted online, describes himself as “a multicultural young man with different backgrounds and ethnicities [his parents are from Djibouti and Yemen] from different places, who’s taken the best out of each thing and adapted it to my everyday life.” He’s multilingual too, tellinghe speaks three and a half languages. The half is “Arabic because I don’t speak it well, but I understand it,” then there’s English and Norwegian, and the third is Afar.
I was born in London but moved to Norway when I was 10 years old. Almost 10 years later, I moved back to London. I enjoy both places just as well. They are both home.I had a long phase when I wanted to be a secret agent ’cause I was watching a lot of MI5 at the time. After that, it was a footballer for some time. At some point, I just understood I didn’t want a 9-to-5 job, and I started to try to get my priorities straight.
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