Name Kario Salem | Role Television actor | |
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Awards Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Limited Series, Movie, or Dramatic Special Nominations Writers Guild of America Award for Best Adapted Long Form - Television Movies Chasing Mavericks, The Score, Killing Zoe, 1492: Conquest of Paradise, The Rat Pack Similar People Brandon Hooper, Lem Dobbs, Jay Moriarty, Curtis Hanson, Michael Apted | ||
Kario Salem (born May 23, 1955) , is an American television, film, and stage actor and screenwriter.
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Early life
Salem, who was born and raised in Los Angeles, is a 1973 graduate, of Agoura High School, in Agoura, California.
Acting career
In 1997, Salem earned an Emmy Award as a writer for the television special Don King: Only in America, which also earned him a PEN nomination. The film also won the Broadcast Film Critics Award and Peabody Award for Best Television Film of the year. He received a second Emmy nomination the following year for writing The Rat Pack, in addition to a second PEN nomination. Also, as Brad Stephens in Hawaii Five-O season 8 episode, "The Deadly Persuasion".
In 1991, Salem won a Drama Log award for his performance in Richard Greenberg's "The Extra Man" at South Coast Repertory Theater, as well as a Boston Critic's award for his performance as "Cousins" in George Bernard Shaw's Major Barbara with Cherry Jones at the American Repertory Theater in Cambridge. Salem also co-starred on Broadway as "Scoop" in The Heidi Chronicles with Mary McDonnel.
He has appeared in over 80 guest starring roles on television, including Francis Campion in Testimony of Two Men (1977), Marcel Pasquinel in Centennial (1978), and the ghost of a dead soldier in an Emmy Award winning episode of M*A*S*H. His film roles include the role of Jocko in Triumph of the Spirit (1989), the role of The Grand Inquistor in Ridley's Scott's 1492: Conquest of Paradise (1992), and the bleach blonde French gangster in Roger Avary's Killing Zoe (1994).
Salem is also a composer and partner in the music company, "Matter Music", best known for its soundtracks for the films Riding Giants and Wedding Crashers.