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Main role also as producer and lead fight choreographer ( The Blind of the Phantom Cave: Angel's Eyes) The couple have two daughters, Atreya Syahla Putri Uwais and Aneska Layla Putri Uwais. On June 25, 2012, Uwais married singer Audy Item at the Hotel Gran Mahakam in Jakarta. In October 2021, Uwais joined the cast of The Expendables 4, set to be released in 2022. He will next star in the action thriller, Chinatown Express. Uwais played Hard Master in Snake Eyes, a spin-off from the G.I. Uwais is also attached to star in The Bellhop, one of the first five films in development by Balboa Productions, the new production company co-founded by Sylvester Stallone in 2018. In the same year, it was announced that Uwais will appear in a film called China Town Express playing a man who must fight through the gangland of New York to save his family after the disappearance of his son during a gang's killing spree. In 2019, Uwais starred in the action comedy film Stuber alongside Kumail Nanjiani and Dave Bautista. Uwais will reprise his role in the upcoming sequel film, Wu Assassins: Fistful of Vengeance. In the same year, it was announced that Uwais was cast in the lead role of Kai Jin on the Netflix series, Wu Assassins. In 2018, Uwais starred in the films, Mile 22 and The Night Comes for Us. In 2017, he filmed the international martial arts film Triple Threat, together with Tony Jaa, Tiger Chen, and Scott Adkins-the film was released in early 2019. In 2016, he appeared in the martial arts film Headshot, which received generally positive reviews. Uwais also appeared briefly in Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015), alongside The Raid 2 co-star Yayan Ruhian. Uwais collaborated on a third movie with Evans, The Raid 2. The movie has been hailed by critics and audiences in various festivals as one of the best martial art movies in years. Uwais's second collaboration with Gareth Evans was The Raid (known as The Raid: Redemption in the United States), which began filming in mid-March 2011 and was released in mid-2012. Merantau won the Best Film award at ActionFest 2010. The film was featured in Puchon International Fantastic Film Festival in South Korea and Fantastic Fest in Austin, Texas with highly positive reviews. Merantau was released in Indonesia on August 6, 2009. In his first acting experience in Merantau, Uwais played the role of a young Minang (West-Sumatran), which led him to learn the Minang style of silat harimau (tiger style) from Master Edwel Datuk Rajo Gampo Alam.
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After signing a five-year contract with Gareth Evans and his production company, Uwais resigned from his daytime job as an operational driver at Esia, an Indonesian telecom company. Uwais's natural charisma and great camera presence encouraged Evans to cast him as the leading role for his first martial art movie, Merantau.
In 2007, Uwais was discovered by director Gareth Evans, who was filming a documentary about silat a form of martial arts in Uwais's training hall.
Achmad Bunawar, was a silat master and founded a silat school. Uwais was born in Jakarta, Indonesia, and is the son of Maisyaroh and Mustapha Kamaluddin.