Kario Salem

Kario Salem won the Emmy for Best Television Movie, The Peabody award, and Broadcast Film Critics’ award for writing HBO’s “Don King: Only in America.” In addition, Salem was nominated for the Emmy and PEN awards for writing HBO’s “The Rat Pack.” He also co-wrote “The Score” starring Robert De Niro and Marlon Brando.

Salem recently completed a screenplay based on Patricia Cornwell’s “Kay Scarpetta” book series for Fox 2000. He is currently working on an original true crime thriller, and the story of Martin Luther King and his assassination, both for DreamWorks.

Salem began his career as an actor, musician, and Juilliard School dropout who starred on Broadway as Scoop in “The Heidi Chronicles” and guest-starred in nearly 100 TV shows, including his role as the ghost of a dead soldier in an award winning episode of “M.A.S.H.” and as Mike Pasquinal in “Centennial.” He can also be seen as Jean, the French gangster, in the film “Killing Zoe,” directed by Roger Avary, and as ‘The Grand Inquisitor’ in “1492,” directed by Ridley Scott.

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