Biography

Early in his career, Karim Zreika captured the attention of notable theatre critic and blogger Kevin Jackson. He elevated that the fast-talking lead’s ‘twinkle-eyed, twinkle-toed magnetism’ in The Voices Project production showed charismatic potential, only paralleled by his rough-hewn observatory vignettes for ‘gritty, everyday reality’.

Arguably one of the standouts in an AYTP (Australian Theatre for Young People) monologue, Karim philosophises the themes of belonging, identity and place in a refreshing, cheerful and energetic fashion: a paradoxical muddle of urbaneness and panache. In addition to his apparent passion for theatre and the screen, he is a dedicated musician whose skills in piano such as his signature “River Flows in You” are met with aplomb and technical deftness.

Since starting ICACM, Karim was introduced to the exciting industry starting with an Egyptian swashbuckling mystical fantasy adventure feature film “Gods of Egypt” in 2014. He was honoured to work with Hollywood and local mainstays Gerard Butler, Geoffrey Rush and director Alex Proyas respectively. That same year, he was co-lead in Curiousworks’ “Riz” set in Cabramatta. In 2015, he was cast as Bilal Folouk in the SBS four-part drama miniseries “The Principal” about the lives of difficult and troubled students in Sydney’s south-west, working closely with Alex Dimitriades.

Karim was next seen in the medical drama “Pulse” (2017); respective crime biographies “Deadly Women” (2017) and “Australian Gangster” (2018) and a small role in Stan’s high school drama “Year Of” (2023). For film, he was in the sci-fi action adventure feature film “Pacific Rim 2: Uprising” (2017) and drama feature film “Hearts and Bones” (2019), starring Hugo Weaving.

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