Kario Salem won the Emmy, Peabody, and Broadcast Film Critics awards for writing
HBO'S 'Don King "Only in America", which won the Emmy for Best
Television Movie of the year. Mr. Salem was also nominated for both Emmy
and PEN awards for HBO 'The Rat Pack'. In addition to major rewrites of
the original Fast and Furious and THE Rundown, he wrote 'The Score',
starring Robert DeNiro and Marlon Brando, Chasing Maverics, starring
Gerard Butler, and MLK and , both in development for Steven Spielberg. He
recently completed the pilot script for a limited series at FX called The Fall Of The House of
FIFA, produced by Tony Krantz, and an original drama for Wiip called 'Gangsters OF
Espionage'. Mr. Salem is also a singer-songwriter who directed a music video for his song
'Stand Down', starring Billy Bob Thornton-winning Best Video at the Toronto, Harlem, Los
Angeles, and Venice Film Festivals. His self-titled EP, recorded with members of War On Drugs,
Vampire Weekend, Edwin Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeroes, and Jeff Beck, has been featured on
KCRW and other radio stations around the world. His latest singles, Captive (Your Hooks) and
Aliyah (Against The Sky) are building on that success with an LP to come in the fall. Mr. Salem's
career began as an actor. After leaving The Julliard School of Drama, he guest-starred in over
100 TV shows, including as the ghost of a dead soldier in an Emmy award winning episode of
MASH, directed by Alan Alda, and as Mike Pasquinal in James Michener's, Centenial. 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, Conquest of Paradise, directed by Ridley Scott. As for
the theater, he has starred or costarred in multiple productions, including as Cousins in Major
Barbara and Twelfth Night with Cherry Jones and Diane Lane at ART in Boston, on Broadway as
Scoop in the Heidi Chronicles with Mary McDonnel, and Off Broadway as Hungry Mother in the
Dallas and Soho Rep productions of Eric Overmyer's Native Speech, and again at Center Stage
in Baltimore with Samuel L. Jackson.
Chasing Mavericks(2012)
The Score(2001)
The Beast(2001)
The Rat Pack(1998)
Don King: Only in America(1997)
Savage(1996)as Reese Burroughs
Mr. Stitch(1995)as Ornery Policeman
Melrose Place(1992)as Vince McConnell
Get Smart(1995)as The Turtle
The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift(2006)
Stealth(2005)
Mindhunters(2004)
The Rundown(2003)
Blue Crush(2002)
Independent Lens(1999)
The 50th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards(1998)as Self - Winner
