The Weeknd

Cast · Writer

Born

February 16, 1990 · Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Birth name

Abel Makkonen Tesfaye

Abel Makkonen Tesfaye, professionally known as The Weeknd, is a Canadian singer born February 16, 1990 in Toronto, Ontario, to Ethiopian parents. He is known for his mixtapes "House of Balloons," "Thursday," and "Echoes of Silence," and the albums "Kiss Land" (2013), "Beauty Behind the Madness" (2015) which included the mega-hit 'The Hills;' "Starboy" (2016), "My Dear Melancholy" (2018), "After Hours" (2020), "Dawn FM" (2022), "The Idol" (2023), and "Hurry Up Tomorrow" (2025), the latter two of which also represent his acting roles, in The Idol (2023) and Hurry Up Tomorrow (2025), respectively.