Makram Khoury

Makram Jamil Khoury (Arabic: مكرم يعقوب خوري, Hebrew: מכרם חורי) is an Israeli-Arab actor, born 30 May 1945 in Jerusalem.

Makram J. Khoury was born into a Palestinian-Christian family, in the al-Sheikh Jarrah section of Jerusalem to his father, who was a judge, and his mother, a teacher.

Educated there and in the nearby village of Kufr Yasif, Khoury finished high school in 1963.

His son Jameel Khoury is also an actor, and appeared in Ridley Scott's film Body of Lies (2008).

Khoury returned to Haifa following a year-long tour playing Tierno Bokar in Peter Brook's 11 and 12.