[1][2] He is known for his collaborations with Swedish director Tarik Saleh in The Nile Hilton Incident (2017) and Boy from Heaven (2022).

(2000), Days Like This (2001), Zero Dark Thirty, Safe House and Easy Money II: Hard to Kill (all 2012), The Keeper of Lost Causes (2013), The Absent One (2014), The Commune and A Conspiracy of Faith (both 2016), Westworld (2018), and Chernobyl (2019).

[3] They moved to escape the Lebanese Civil War and chose Sweden because they had relatives who had already lived there.

[4] In 2012, Fares made his Hollywood debut in the Denzel Washington movie Safe House.

For 2013's Kvinden i buret (English title: The Keeper of Lost Causes),[9] which was set in Denmark, Fares learned to speak Danish.

[13] The third film in the series, A Conspiracy of Faith (Flaskepost fra P), premiered in Denmark in March 2016 and in the United States in June.

[14] In 2014, Fares portrayed Fauzi Nadal in the TV show Tyrant on the FX Network.