Yousef Sweid

Yousef "Joe" Sweid (, ; born 22 June 1976) is an Arab-Israeli actor and dancer. Early and personal life Yousef Sweid was born in Haifa, Israel, to a Christian-Arab family. He is a graduate of the theater department at Tel Aviv University. Sweid was married to Jewish-Israeli Yael Ronen, a director at the Cameri Theatre. They had a son in 2009. In 2015 they divorced. In 2018, he married Jewish-Israeli television host Adi Shilon. Their daughter was born in October 2019. They reside mostly in Berlin, Germany. Theater and film career He started out by joining the Arab-Hebrew Theater in Jaffa. He went on to participate in television shows including Dancing again tonight (1991), Lane of White Chairs (a winner at the 1996 Acre Festival), Oh Brother Boom Boom (which in 2003 won at the Haifa festival for children's programming), Dragon (2004), and Immigrants (2005).