Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. One day, Barkhad Abdi was driving taxicabs in Minneapolis and the next, he was on movie sets in Malta and Morocco, making his ...

You won't believe the sensible purchase the Oscar-nominated actor just made. Barkhad Abdi speaks onstage during the 25th annual Producers Guild of America Awards on Jan. 19, 2014 in Beverly Hills, ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Abdi was working multiple gigs in Minneapolis — as a taxi driver, store worker, and DJ — when he ...

Luke Jaden Sawicki, Cort Johns and Phil Wurtzel are forming Eden Road Pictures to produce positive stories for the big screen, starting with a Barkhad Abdi drama, Variety has learned exclusively. Eden ...

After a memorable start, Barkhad Abdi is taking a realistic, slowly-but-surely approach to his budding Hollywood career. Last March, the first-time performer walked the Oscars red carpet as a Best ...

MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) --Barkhad Abdi, the Somali immigrant who was a Twin Cities limo driver before playing a pirate in "Captain Phillips," won an award at the British Academy Awards over the weekend.

Barkhad Abdi, center, stars in director Paul Greengrass' ripped-from-the-headlines drama 'Captain Phillips,' about the 2009 kidnapping of an American merchant marine by Somali pirates. (Jasin Boland / ...

Minnesota actor Barkhad Abdi, who gained fame as a Somali pirate in the 2013 film "Captain Phillips," was stopped briefly by U.S. customs officials in February while returning to the U.S. after ...