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Kamal Moummad (born November 8, 1974) is an American actor, writer, peace ambassador, humanitarian and retired athlete. International...

Early life
Kamal Moummad was born in Montes-la-Jolie, located 48.4 km (30.1 mi) from Paris, France, on November 8, 1974. He grew up in the suburbs of Paris and spent every summer in Morocco, and speaks fluent French, Arabic, Berber, Spanish and English. He has nine siblings: six sisters and three brothers. The Moummad family is Moroccan; both his mother and father are from Ouled Driss near Zagora, in southeast Morocco.

He was educated at the University Institute of Technology of Vélizy in Paris where he graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Communication Studies and Networks (Multimedia), was accepted by the Weber State University in Ogden, Utah, and then attended Grays Harbor College in Aberdeen, Washington where he played college basketball for one year. After that, he transferred to San Jose State University where he played three years of NCAA Division I college basketball.

NCAA Basketball
Moummad started playing basketball at the age of eight, encouraged by his sister Hassna Moummad who is an official basketball referee for the French Federation of Basketball (FFBB) all over France, particularly in Île-de-France. She was also the president of the Club Athlétique de Mantes-la-Ville (CAMV), a basketball club, of the city of Mantes-la-Ville, in the Yvelines department in the Île-de-France region in north-central France.

In September 1995, Moummad moved to the United States with just $500 to his name to play college basketball for Weber State University in Ogden, Utah, but attended Grays Harbor College in Aberdeen, Washington to join the men's basketball team instead.

After graduating with an Associate of Arts (AA) degree, Moummad and another French college basketball player, Tariq Abdul-Wahad (also known as Olivier Saint-Jean), who later became the first French player to be drafted to the NBA, moved to California [year]. Moummad joined the men's basketball team at San Jose State University as a walk-on. He graduated in 1998 with a Bachelor of Arts in Communication Studies and Literature and played college basketball [where] until the fall of 2000, at which point he returned to France to play pro basketball [where/team].

Modeling
After several years as a professional basketball player, Moummad was encouraged to model and soon landed an agent at [agency]. With his tall, athletic body and good looks, he quickly found success modeling in San Francisco and New York. After booking his very first audition (for a commercial print ad for Coca-Cola) in [date], Moummad went on to model for such clients as Nike, Gap, Banana Republic, Levi's, Dockers, Mervyn's, Adidas and Converse.

He also did a national commercial with Lance Armstrong for Subaru in [date], but it was the voice-over work in French for the San Francisco Opera that planted the acting bug in him.

Acting
His agent [name] submitted Moummad for a comedy film about basketball and he was personally invited by the casting director [name] to audition for a part in Semi-Pro (2008), directed by Kent Alterman and starring Will Ferrell and Woody Harrelson. After three days of a very competitive auditioning process, Moummad was cast as the lead point-guard for the movie’s fictional ABA team.

Moummad’s diverse background and natural talents has given him the ability to embody characters from different walks of life from freed slave to African Special Forces Agent, from Timbuktu refugee to captain of the British South African Police Force. He has been featured next to some of Hollywood's and Bollywood's elite in such roles as a Senegalese ambassador, an illegal miner, a powerful Black Panther member, a suicidal student, and a UN interpreter.

More about roles, films, directors, locations.

Moummad was invited as the guest of honor and member of the jury to the 10th Annual Agadir Cinéma and Migrations Festival.

Philanthropy and activism
During his time filming in Morocco, Moummad was chosen to become the first ambassador in the United States for Touche Pas Á Mon Enfant (Hands Off My Child), a Moroccan non-profit organization dedicated to the fight against pedophilia and abuses against children in Africa and around the world.

Moummad is also a Humanitarian and the Peace Ambassador representing the Kingdom of Morocco for the Global Prosperity and Peace Initiative (GPPI), a non-profit organization committed to increasing the level of prosperity, peace and love in the world today. He is also their Regional Director for the Greater Middle East.

In addition, Moummad has invested a significant amount of his time to mentoring. He started a foundation called The 8th Wonder Endeavors, which focuses on positively engaging, empowering and educating underprivileged children through literacy, education, healthy active lifestyles, sports, art and entertainment.

Personal life
Moummad lives in the Hollywood area of Los Angeles. He is a devout Muslim.