Yaqoub Al-Farhan

Acting

Yaqoub Al-Farhan

Born

1984-12-08 (41)

Place of birth

Saudi Arabia

Known for

Acting

Credits

17 titles

A Saudi actor. He began his artistic life by working in the theater, and among his notable plays Quick Meal, Secret of Life, The Lucky One and Second Symphony. He also appeared in several series, including Between You and Me, Women's Play Is a Man and Girls' Extension.

Known for

This Other Thing poster
7.5

An Arab anthology drama unfolding across six cities — Beirut, Cairo, Riyadh, Jeddah, Dubai, and El Gouna — weaving together separate stories about love in its many forms: right person, wrong time; wrong person, right time; love lost, love deferred. Featuring a stellar pan-Arab cast, each episode is a self-contained meditation on modern relationships and longing.

This Other Thing

2020

Travel Route poster
10.0

Three brothers get into many adventures when they run the inn, the station, and the grocery they inherit from their father, who appears to them as a ghost whenever they do something wrong.

Travel Route

2022

Rashash poster
7.5

Inspired by real events, the powerful series narrates the story of the notorious criminal of the same name in the 1980s, and the Saudi police’s efforts to bring him to justice.

Rashash

2021

The Reassured Soul poster
NR

After returning home, Talal is pulled into a dark psychological journey where the lines between guilt, desire and his own disturbing impulses begin to blur. As buried feelings connected to a past love resurface, the darkness inside him grows stronger. Talal is forced to confront a terrifying question: can he free himself from his past, or will it consume him completely?

The Reassured Soul

2026

Harat Alsheikh poster
NR

Set in old Jeddah during the final years of the Ottoman era, this Saudi period drama follows two brothers raised in the same neighbourhood who take opposite paths in life — one falls into gang life and criminality, the other chooses righteousness and virtue. Rooted in Hijazi folk tradition, the show paints a vivid picture of community, honour, and moral struggle in a bygone era.

Harat Alsheikh

2016

Badr's Will poster
NR

The lives of five siblings are turned upside down when they discover that their father, who abandoned them in their childhood, has passed away and left them a vast fortune.

Badr's Will

2020

Film credits

2020s · 5 titles

A Matter of Life and Death poster
NR

Haya's convinced she's going to die before thirty, so she's living like it — loud, reckless, completely unfiltered, no brakes. Then one of her stunts goes wrong and lands her in the ER... right into Youssef. A heart surgeon. Calm, controlled, lives by a schedule. The human opposite of her in every way. Naturally, she decides he's her destiny. What follows is chaotic, funny, and a little bit ridiculous — neon nights, strange rituals, the kind of moments you can't plan for. Her countdown keeps ticking. His walls keep cracking. And somewhere in between, they both start remembering what it actually feels like to be alive. A love story for anyone who's ever felt like too much.

A Matter of Life and Death

2026

Norah poster
6.5

Set in a small remote Saudi Arabian village in the 90s, when artistic expression was banned, NORAH is a story about the arrival of a new teacher, formerly an artist, into the tiny community where he meets a young woman named Norah.

Norah

2024

AlGaid poster
10.0

Al-Gaid emerges as a captivating epic adventure, unfolding against the backdrop of the 20th-century wintery northern Arabian desert. Boldly redefines the adventure revenge genre and Bedouin soap operas, crafting a unique narrative.

AlGaid

2025

Scales poster
6.7

Hayat, a 12-year-old strong-willed girl, lives in a poor fishing village governed by dark tradition, in which every family must give away a daughter to the sea creatures who inhabit the waters near by. In turn, the sea creatures are hunted by the men of the village. Saved from this ordeal by her father, Hayat is outcasted by her village and considered a curse. But Hayat never surrenders. When Hayat’s mother gives birth to her new-born brother, Hayat must accept the brutal custom by sacrificing herself to these creatures or find a way to escape.

Scales

2020

Old Phone Number poster
NR

Hamed's mid-life crisis prompts him to repent and change the course of his life, (deciding to go to Makkah) to seek forgiveness. However, during the desert road trip, something happens that prevents him from completing his long spiritual journey and makes him return to meet someone who lives in his past, still.

Old Phone Number

2022

Series credits

This Other Thing poster
7.5

An Arab anthology drama unfolding across six cities — Beirut, Cairo, Riyadh, Jeddah, Dubai, and El Gouna — weaving together separate stories about love in its many forms: right person, wrong time; wrong person, right time; love lost, love deferred. Featuring a stellar pan-Arab cast, each episode is a self-contained meditation on modern relationships and longing.

This Other Thing

2020

Travel Route poster
10.0

Three brothers get into many adventures when they run the inn, the station, and the grocery they inherit from their father, who appears to them as a ghost whenever they do something wrong.

Travel Route

2022

Rashash poster
7.5

Inspired by real events, the powerful series narrates the story of the notorious criminal of the same name in the 1980s, and the Saudi police’s efforts to bring him to justice.

Rashash

2021

The Reassured Soul poster
NR

After returning home, Talal is pulled into a dark psychological journey where the lines between guilt, desire and his own disturbing impulses begin to blur. As buried feelings connected to a past love resurface, the darkness inside him grows stronger. Talal is forced to confront a terrifying question: can he free himself from his past, or will it consume him completely?

The Reassured Soul

2026

Harat Alsheikh poster
NR

Set in old Jeddah during the final years of the Ottoman era, this Saudi period drama follows two brothers raised in the same neighbourhood who take opposite paths in life — one falls into gang life and criminality, the other chooses righteousness and virtue. Rooted in Hijazi folk tradition, the show paints a vivid picture of community, honour, and moral struggle in a bygone era.

Harat Alsheikh

2016

Badr's Will poster
NR

The lives of five siblings are turned upside down when they discover that their father, who abandoned them in their childhood, has passed away and left them a vast fortune.

Badr's Will

2020

Girls’ Annex poster
NR

The story revolves around five young women living in Riyadh, each with her own story to tell. Despite their different social backgrounds, they share a strong friendship and live together in a private annex at the home of the wealthiest among them.

Girls’ Annex

2012

Scholarship Students poster
NR

Four Saudi women travel abroad to continue their university studies. They develop a strong friendship and reveal to one another the real reasons that led each of them to study in the West. Throughout the events, the series explores the social and cultural challenges the women face while living abroad.

Scholarship Students

2015

The Fates Hotel poster
NR

A thriller following the lives of a group of strangers brought together by their connection to an old hotel, an experience that changes their lives forever.

The Fates Hotel

2021

لعبة المرأة رجل poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

لعبة المرأة رجل

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