Body of Lies (film) - Cast

Cast

  • Leonardo DiCaprio as Roger Ferris, a field officer, working in CIA's Near East Division, later CIA Station Chief of Amman, Jordan
  • Russell Crowe as Ed Hoffman, chief of CIA's Near East Division
  • Mark Strong as Hani Salaam, Jordanian intelligence chief, director of the feared GID
  • Golshifteh Farahani as Aisha, a nurse in Amman, Ferris' love interest
  • Oscar Isaac as Bassam, CIA field operative in Iraq and Ferris' associate, killed by RPG fire in an operation
  • Ali Suliman as Omar Sadiki, a Jordanian architect with very low-profile contact with Al-Qaeda, CIA's mole to catch Al-Saleem, killed by Al-Saleem after CIA finishes with him
  • Alon Aboutboul as Al-Saleem, head of an independent terrorist group based in Jordan, aligned with Al-Qaeda
  • Vince Colosimo as Skip, CIA field operative in Jordan
  • Simon McBurney as Garland, a computer geek employed by the CIA to instrument black ops
  • Mehdi Nebbou as Nizar, former linguist, Al-Qaeda operative and attempted defector, killed by Ferris
  • Michael Gaston as Holiday, Ferris' predecessor as CIA's Jordan station chief
  • Kais Nashif as Mustafa Karami, former petty criminal turned Al-Qaeda operative under Al-Saleem, later Hani Salaam's informer
  • Jamil Khoury as Marwan Se-Kia, GID operative, security officer of Hani Salaam
  • Lubna Azabal as Aisha's sister Cala, unsubtly defiantly toward the West
  • Ghali Benlafkih as Aisha's nephew Rowley
  • Youssef Srondy as Aisha's nephew Yousef
  • Ali Khalil as Zayed Ibishi, CIA asset in Amman, operating in Hoffman's secret side operation, arrested and punished by GID

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