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Shaun Toub | |
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 Toub at the 83rd Academy Awards in 2011 | |
| Born | February 15, 1958 |
| Alma mater | University of Southern California |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Years active | 1988–present |
Shaun Toub (born February 15, 1958) [2] is an American actor. He has played the character Yinsen in Iron Man (2008) and Iron Man 3 (2013); Farhad in Crash (2004); Rahim Khan in The Kite Runner (2007); Majid Javadi in the Showtime television series Homeland; and Faraz Kamali in the Apple TV+ Israeli series Tehran (2020). [3]
Toub was born to an Iranian Jewish family, [4] in Tehran, [1] Imperial State of Iran. His parents were both podiatrists. At age 2, he moved to Manchester, England, [5] where his mother attended podiatry school. He returned to Iran, where he lived until he was 13, before moving to Switzerland. He moved to Nashua, New Hampshire to finish his last year of high school.[ citation needed ] He decided at age five to become an actor. [6]
He received the Cinema Sepharad award at the 2022 Los Angeles Sephardic Film Festival. [7]
His filmography includes his performance in Michael Bay's Bad Boys with Will Smith and Martin Lawrence, John Woo's Broken Arrow with John Travolta and Christian Slater and Mick Jackson's Live from Baghdad starring Michael Keaton and Helena Bonham Carter for HBO. His performance as Farhad in Paul Haggis's Oscar-winning film Crash received positive reviews. [8] He played the part of the Virgin Mary's father in The Nativity Story . He also played Rahim Khan in The Kite Runner (2007). [9]
In the series Grimm , he played the part of Bonaparte, one of the villains of the latest series. [10]
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1988 | Out of Time | Speechmaker | Television film |
| Glitz | Maitre d' | Television film | |
| 1989 | Dark Holiday | Prison Soldier | Television film |
| 1991 | Before the Storm | Jeep Soldier | Television film |
| 1993 | Desperate Rescue: The Cathy Mahone Story | ||
| Hot Shots! Part Deux | Sleeping Guard | ||
| 1995 | OP Center | Lt. Arkov | Television film |
| Bad Boys | Store Clerk | ||
| 1996 | Broken Arrow | Max | |
| Executive Decision | Terrorist #5 | ||
| Suddenly | Mr. Tabibsidan | Television film | |
| 1997 | Path to Paradise | El Sayyid Nosair | Television film |
| Steel Sharks | Capt. Reza Lashgar | ||
| Out to Sea | Bettor in Front | ||
| 1999 | Stigmata | Doctor | |
| D.R.E.A.M. Team | Prince Ali Saleed | Television film | |
| 2002 | Maryam | Dr. Darius Armin | |
| Live from Baghdad | Sadoun Al-Jenabi | Television film | |
| 2003 | Underground | Dark Skinned Man | Short film |
| 2004 | Land of Plenty | Hassan | |
| Crash | Farhad | [11] | |
| 2006 | The Path to 9/11 | Emad Salem | Television film |
| The Nativity Story | Joaquim | ||
| 2007 | The Kite Runner | Rahim Khan | [11] |
| Charlie Wilson's War | Hassan | Uncredited | |
| 2008 | Iron Man | Ho Yinsen | [12] |
| 2010 | The Last Airbender | Uncle Iroh | |
| 2011 | Setup | Roth | |
| 2013 | Papa | Evan Shipman | |
| Iron Man 3 | Ho Yinsen | Cameo | |
| 2014 | Stretch | Nasseem | |
| Unity | Narrator | Documentary | |
| 2015 | Papa: Hemingway in Cuba | Evan Shipman | |
| 2016 | War Dogs | Marlboro | |
| 2020 | Ghosts of War | Mr. Helwig |
| Year | Title | Role | Notes | |
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| 1988 | Hunter | Phillip DePaul/Stephen Avak | Episodes "Need Justice: Part 1" and "Need Justice: Part 2" | |
| 1990 | Columbo | Amir | Episode: "Agenda for Murder" | |
| Matlock | Rahmad Hussein | Episode: "Nowhere to Turn" | ||
| Dragnet | Ralph Singas | Episode: "Queen of Hearts" | ||
| Gabriel's Fire | Attendant | Episode: "Windows" | ||
| 1991 | Under Cover | Jeep Soldier | Episode: "Sacrifices" | |
| In the Heat of the Night | Cabby | Episode: "Unfinished Business" | ||
| 1993 | Bodies of Evidence | Rajeeb Kambata | Episode: "Eleven Grains of Sand" | |
| 1993–97 | Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman | Asabi | Episodes "Pilot", "Neverending Battle", "I'm Looking Through You" and "All Shook Up", "Seconds" and "I've Got You Under My Skin" | |
| 1994 | Living Single | Cabby | Episode: "Fatal Distraction" | |
| Café Americain | Colonel Faisal | Episode: "Love the One You're With" | ||
| One West Waikiki | Joseph Kastrami | Episode: "Terminal Island" | ||
| The Bold and the Beautiful | Moustafa | 2 episodes | ||
| Married... with Children | Akbar | Episode: "A Man for No Seasons" | ||
| 1995 | Ellen | Foreign Man | Episode: "Hello, I Must Be Going" | |
| JAG | Prison Commandant | Episode: "Scimitar" | ||
| 1996 | Sisters | Weatherman | Episode: "Don't Go to Springfield" | |
| 1996 | Nash Bridges | Cecil Riskin | Episode: "Hit Parade" | |
| 1996 | Sliders | Kheri-Heb | Episode: "Slide Like an Egyptian" | |
| 1996–97 | Pacific Blue | Mahmood | Episodes "Outlaw Extreme" and "The Last Ride" | |
| 1997 | Walker, Texas Ranger | Lance | Episode: "Last Hope" | |
| ER | Butler | Episode: "Ground Zero" | ||
| Seinfeld | Pinter | Episode: "The Betrayal" [13] | ||
| The Visitor | — | Episode: "Going Home" | ||
| 1998 | Early Edition | Hassan Rejim | Episode: "Mum's the Word" | |
| Cybill | Scary Man | Episode: "Ka-Boom!" | ||
| Soldier of Fortune, Inc. | Hamzed Ali Amin | Episode: "Iraq and Roll" | ||
| 1999 | G vs E | Dr. Clean | Episode: "Evilator" | |
| CI5: The New Professionals | Shabadi | Episode: "Orbit" | ||
| Just Shoot Me! | Ernesto | Episode: "Love Is in the Air" | ||
| 2000 | Cover Me | Spiros | Episode: "Where Have You Gone, Sandy Koufax?" | |
| Charmed | Triad Member #2 | Episodes "Magic Hour", "Sight Unseen" and "Power Outrage" | ||
| 2001 | Malcolm in the Middle | Janic | Episode: "Hal Quits" | |
| The Sopranos | Arouk Abboubi | Episode: "Employee of the Month" | ||
| Son of the Beach | Mohammed | Episode: "Chip's a Goy" | ||
| Special Unit 2 | Herkamer | Episode: "The Wraps" | ||
| The District | Boris | Episodes "Fools Russian: Part 1" and "Fools Russian: Part 2" | ||
| The Division | Yuri | Episode: "The First Hit's Free, Baby" | ||
| 2002 | She Spies | Joshua Bick | Episode: "Poster Girl" | |
| 2003 | The Agency | Colonel Tambour - Al Tayeh's Deputy | Episode: "Unholy Alliances" | |
| 2006–07 | Smith | Jerry | Episodes "Pilot", "Three" and "Four" | |
| 2007 | Lost | Sami | Episode: "Enter 77" | |
| 2008 | NCIS | Khalid Mohammed Bakr | Episode: "Tribes" | |
| 2009 | The Unit | Misha Belikov | Episode: "Bad Beat" | |
| Chuck | Dr. Mohammed Zamir | Episode: "Chuck Versus the Broken Heart" | ||
| 2011 | Castle | Philip Boyd | Episode: "Head Case" | |
| 2012 | Luck | Dr. Khan | Episodes "Ace Forces Escalante to Swap Jockeys" and "Two Prized Colts Go Head-to-Head" | |
| Last Resort | Admiral Safir Ahsan | Episode: "Cinderella Liberty" | ||
| 2013, 2017 | Homeland | Majid Javadi | 10 Episodes [14] [12] | |
| 2015 | The Blacklist | Commander Kushan | Episode: "Ruslan Denisov" | |
| 2016 | Grimm | Conrad Bonaparte | 4 Episodes [3] | |
| 2020 | Little America | Faraz | Episode: "The Rock" [15] | |
| 2020-21 | Snowpiercer | Terence | 8 Episodes | |
| 2020, 2022 | Tehran | Faraz Kamali | [3] |
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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| 1996 | Spycraft: The Great Game | Onyx | |
| 2008 | Iron Man | Yinsen | [16] |
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