William El-Gardi

William trained at Mountview Academy. Recent theatre credits include Failed States (Pleasance Theatre) and Time of the Tortoise (Theatre 503) and national tours of Tangier Tattoo with Glyndebourne Opera House, OneFourSeven with the Dende Collective/Lyric Hammersmith and a Welsh national tour of Flowers From Tunisia with Theatre Ibyd/Theatre Clwyd. Other theatre includes Laters, Release The Beat-The Musical and Funky Stuff. He also took part in The Container at the Edinburgh Festival, which won a Fringe First and the Amnesty International Freedom of Expression award.
Most notably in 2004, He secured the lead villain role, Abassi in the BBC/HBO film Dirty War, reviewed as 'the baddest of bad guys played awesomely convincingly ... excellent acting' (Kathryn Flett, The Observer). More TV roles followed including Spooks, Judge John Deed, The Bill, Murder Prevention, Saddam's Tribe, Last Flight to Kuwait and Whistleblowers in the joint ITV/BBC production. He was also lucky enough to have worked with Danish Dogma director Suzanne Beir in the critically acclaimed movie Brothers and in the short Get The Picture. In 2005 he played the part of Djamel in Djamel's Eyes, and in 2009 played Khalid in Four Lions, a satire based on a group of four terrorists from the north of England.