Oded Fehr (; born November 23, 1970) is an Israeli film and television actor now based in the United States. He is known for his appearance as Ardeth Bay in the 1999 remake of The Mummy and its sequel The Mummy Returns, as well as Carlos Olivera in Resident Evil: Apocalypse and Resident Evil: Extinction, Faris al-Farik in Sleeper Cell and the demon Zankou in the TV series Charmed.

Biography

Early life

Fehr was born in Tel Aviv, Israel to Jewish parents, his mother a day care supervisor and his father a German-born physicist.NewsLibrary Search Resultsj. - Israeli actor plays Muslim terrorist in Showtime’s ‘Sleeper Cell’ He has an older brother, a sister, and a younger half-sister. He trained at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School in England after taking a very brief drama class in Frankfurt, Germany. He served in the Israeli Sea Corps from 1989 to 1992Interview with Oded Fehr | www.somethingjewish.co.uk and used to work for security for El Al (Israel's airline) in Germany.