Zeeko Zaki

Zaki was born in Alexandria, Egypt, and immigrated with his parents to the United States at one month of age.[2][5] Zaki's maternal grandparents immigrated before him and his parents.[3] His extended family remained in Egypt, and Zaki visited his hometown during the summers of his childhood.[6] He grew up in West Chester, Pennsylvania.[3] His mother manages a salon and his father is a stylist.[7] Zaki has two younger siblings, a brother and a sister.[7]

Zaki's passion for acting was ignited during his freshman year high school performance of Seussical at Unionville High School, where he attended and graduated.[6][7] He also acted in the community theater group Unionville Players. He went on to briefly attend Temple University.[7][8]

In 2010 Zaki moved to North Carolina and worked in theater before auditioning for television roles. He appeared in bit part roles in various films and television series before landing recurring roles in Six and 24: Legacy, portraying antagonists, and in Valor, in which he portrayed a door gunner of a U.S. Army special operations aviation unit. Zaki was cast in his first lead role, Special Agent Omar Adom "O.A." Zidan, in Dick Wolf's procedural FBI. The role was originally written as Latino but Wolf was impressed enough by his audition tape to change the character to mirror his background and ethnicity.[9][10]

Zaki is a practicing Muslim.[3][5][6] Zaki speaks both English and Arabic fluently.[5][11]

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