Kario Salem
Kario Salem (born 1955) is an American television, film, and stage actor and screenwriter.
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.
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 the role of Mike Pasquinal in Centennial, 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, the bleach blonde French gangster in Roger Avary's Killing Zoe, and the role of The Grand Inquistor in Ridley's Scott's 1492: Conquest of Paradise.
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.
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