Majid Shokor

Majid is an Iraqi Australian filmmaker and film and stage actor. He has been acting for over 35 years. He has won awards in his home country of Iraq and was a member of the Iraqi National Theatre Company. He also directed whilst teaching drama in Lebanon for four years and written his own works.

Majid's screen credits include; ABC TV drama series House of Gods directed by Fadia Abooud and The Correspondent, a feature film directed by Kriv Stenders. Other screen credits include; Getting In, directed by Jean-Pierre Mignon, an actor and cultural consultant in the feature films Ali's Wedding and Lucky Miles. He also has roles in TV series like, City Homicide, Rush, Nowhere Boys, Stateless and Clickbait and in short films like Gelibolu and The Fall, a short film directed by Mert Berdilek and was the finalist at Sydney Film Festival in 2020.

Majid has also appeared in more than 25 plays in Sydney, Melbourne and Adelaide including; Subclass26A directed by Bagryana Popov at 45 Downstairs for which he was nominated for a Green Room Best Actor Award in 2005, Homebody/Kabul by Tony Kushner directed by Chris Bendal, The Cove Season, 8 short plays by Daniel Keen and directed by Matt Scholton for which was nominated for another Green Room Best Actor Award in 2009, Between Heaven and Her by Dodo Gombár and directed by Lech Mackiewicz, LaMama Theatre, Uncle Vanya by Chekhov directed by Bagryana Popov, LaMama Theatre, Tales of a City by The Sea, written by Samah Sabawi and directed by Lech Mackiewicz, La Mama Theatre. Majid was also seen at Belvoir St Theatre in The Cool Room and In Our Name, a play Written and directed by Nigel Jamieson. Majid holds a Master degree with Honour in Community Cultural Development from VCA / Melbourne University and was an MAV and MTC ambassador in 2014 and 2015.

Words of Praise, (Published with the authors' permission). "And Majid- while I'm writing to you - I've been wanting to tell you that I went to the Immigration Museum and completely by chance stumbled on a performance of yours - as a refugee being refused admission to Australia. I was terribly moved by the way you played the part, it was almost unbearably painful and I will never forget it. What a superb actor you are." Australian Novelist Helen Garner

"I've rarely witnessed a coming together of text and performance so moving and hypnotic. Majid Shokor, in Tow Shanks by Daniel Keene, was luminous, quite extraordinary". Australian Novelist Kristel Thornell.