Lewis Alsamari (born 1976) is an Iraqi actor based in the United Kingdom.
In 2006 he starred in the Universal Pictures film United 93 as the terrorist Saeed al-Ghamdi.
Alsamari was reported to have been denied a visa by American immigration authorities when he applied to visit New York City to attend the premiere of United 93.
The reason reportedly given was that he had once been a conscripted member of the Iraqi Army – although this was also the grounds for his refugee status after his desertion in 1993.
[2] Alsamari was featured in the Edinburgh Festival Fringe production of "What I Heard About Iraq", based on the Eliot Weinberger article of the same name that originally appeared in the London Review of Books in 2005.