Known For: Acting
Born: March 10, 1957
Place of Birth: Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Died: May 2, 2011

Osama bin Laden

Osama bin Mohammed bin Awad bin Laden was the founder of al-Qaeda, the terrorist organization responsible for the September 11 attacks on the United States and numerous other mass-casualty attacks against civilian and military targets. He was a member of the wealthy Saudi bin Laden family, and an ethnic Yemeni Kindite. Bin Laden was on the American Federal Bureau of Investigation's (FBI) lists of Ten Most Wanted Fugitives and Most Wanted Terrorists for his involvement in the 1998 U.S. embassy bombings. From 2001 to 2011, bin Laden was a major target of the War on Terror, with a US$25 million bounty by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. After being placed on the FBI's Most Wanted list, bin Laden remained in hiding during three U.S. presidential administrations. On May 2, 2011, bin Laden was shot and killed inside a private residential compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, by U.S. Navy SEALs…

Filmography

Fortuyn: On-Hollands

2025 · Self (archive footage)

American Manhunt: Osama bin Laden

2025 · Self - Founder of Al-Qaeda (archive footage)

Los 2000

2021 · Self (archive footage)

Turning Point: 9/11 and the War on Terror

2021 · Self (archive footage)

Spycraft

2021 · Self (archive footage)