Zainal Abidin (31 August 1928 – 7 January 2000) was a Citra Award-winning Indonesian actor who played in more than a hundred and fifty films.

He completed his education through senior high school before beginning work at a shipping company based at Tanjung Priok in 1950.

He left the position in 1952, and the following year made his feature film debut, taking a minor role in Chaidar Djafar's Sedarah Sedaging.

[2] In 1994 Abidin completed his final feature film, Maman Firmansjah's Setetes Noda Manis.

[2] Afterwards, with the domestic film industry on a downturn, he migrated to televised soap operas, acting in several between 1994 and 1997.