Career
Samarrai has appeared in episodes of television series such as Spooks and Crossroads. In 2006 he starred in the Universal Pictures film United 93 as the terrorist Saeed al-Ghamdi. Samarrai was reported to have been denied a visa by American immigration authorities when he applied to visit New York City to attend the premiere of United 93.
Other sources say that he applied late for his visa and that it was not denied. Samarrai was featured in the Edinburgh Festival Fringe production of "What I Heard About Iraq", based on the Eliot Weinberger article of the same name that originally appeared in the London Review of Books in 2005.
