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Amed Bozan

kurdish-Swedish actor (born 1989)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 30, 2026
Entity authorityQ117188219 ↗
Source-derived summary

Amed Bozan (born 1989) is a Swedish actor. He is best known for playing Husam in Caliphate (2020), for which he won a Kristallen for Best Actor. He also played the lead in Älskade Samir (2023) and had a major role in Cry Wolf (2024).

Life and career

He was born in Diyarbakır and moved to Sweden in 1992, when he was three years old. He is Kurdish. He grew up in Sollentuna and graduated from the Stockholm Theatre Academy in 2019. He had his debut screen role in Caliphate (2020) as conflicted Islamic State fighter Husam. He won a Kristallen for Best Actor for his performance as Husam.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Amed Bozan” as kurdish-Swedish actor (born 1989). Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewStrongest as a route into the people, institutions and dated events that shaped the subject’s public record. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1989, 2020, 2023, 2024—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1989-02-25. The account is most persuasive where Amed, Bozan and kurdish-Swedish can be independently traced.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The subject matters to the people & ideas register because the source frames it as kurdish-Swedish actor (born 1989). Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

Biographical claims are most persuasive when dates, appointments and relationships can be traced to records created close to the events described. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 30, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q117188219. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1989, 2020, 2023 and 2024.

Critical limits

Public reputation and documentary evidence do not always develop together; absence from a summary is not evidence of historical absence. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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This entry incorporates text from “Amed Bozan” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.