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The Crown casts Khalid Abdalla as Princess Diana's boyfriend Dodi Fayed
The Crown. Film producer Dodi Fayed, 42, was the son of billionaire and former Harrods owner Mohamed Fayed.British actor Khalid Abdalla, 39, who starred in the 2007 film The Kite Runner, has been cast in the role.Israeli actor Salim Dau, 70, will play Dodi’s father, Variety magazine reported.Australian actress Elizabeth Debicki, 31, will replace British star Emma Corrin as Diana in the fifth series of the Netflix series.The actors will depict the night in 1997 when Dodi and Diana, 36, were both killed when their Mercedes crashed in a tunnel in Paris.They had stopped in Paris en route to London, after spending nine days on holiday together in the French and Italian Rivieras on the Al Fayed family yacht, the Jonikal.
