Shaun Toub

Shaun Toub
Toub at the 83rd Academy Awards in 2011
Born	(1958-02-15) February 15, 1958 (age 67) Tehran, Imperial State of Iran [1]
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]

Early life

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]

Career

Toub in 2007

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]

Filmography

Films

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

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
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]

Video game

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1996	Spycraft: The Great Game	Onyx
2008	Iron Man	Yinsen	[16]

References

1. Saba, Behrouz (November 29, 2005). "'Tehrangeles' Rising - Iranian-Americans Make Their Mark in Hollywood". Pacific News Service. Archived from the original on November 23, 2007.
2. @ShaunToub (16 February 2017). "This is how I spent my Valentine's/ birthday, courtesy of my lovely wife. #Caviar #Champagne #Lobster #Pasta #cake" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
3. Guglielmo, Connie. "Shaun Toub Bridges Israeli-Iranian Relations as a Spy Chaser in 'Tehran'". CNET. Retrieved 2022-06-30.
4. Beale, Lewis (December 12, 2007). "'Kite Runner' defies film stereotypes of Muslims". Newsday . Archived from the original on December 14, 2007.
5. Elliott, David (December 17, 2007). "Wise in the old ways". The San Diego Union-Tribune . Archived from the original on May 7, 2008.
6. Sadri, Iman (September 19, 2016). "Prime Time Persian: Q+A with Shaun Toub: The Most Prolific Iranian American Actor in Hollywood History". Persian Observer. Archived from the original on March 7, 2021. Retrieved March 23, 2017.
7. Schleier, Curt (October 28, 1999). "A Night at the Sephardic Film Festival". The Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles . Retrieved November 27, 2018.
8. Nathan Southern (2014). "Shaun Toub". Movies & TV Dept. The New York Times . Archived from the original on January 10, 2014. Retrieved December 16, 2013.
9. Accomando, Beth (December 21, 2007). "The Kite Runner Interview With Shaun Toub". KPBS (TV) . Retrieved December 16, 2013.
10. Vkanty, Edward (May 14, 2016). "'Grimm' Actor Shaun Toub Reveals 'Bad Night' was just the beginning of Bonaparte's Plot'". Inquisitr .
11. Price, Matthew. "Word Balloons: Shaun Toub gets to be a good guy". The Oklahoman. Retrieved 2022-06-30.
12. Trock, Gary (May 24, 2019). "'Iron Man' Star Shaun Toub Files for Divorce". yahoo finance. Retrieved 2022-06-30.
13. Bjorklund, Dennis (2021-04-11). Seinfeld Ultimate Episode Guide. Praetorian Publishing. p. 295. ISBN   978-1-4944-0595-3.
14. O'Connell, Michael (July 16, 2013). "'Homeland' Casts Martin Donovan, 'Iron Man' Actor for Season 3". The Hollywood Reporter . Retrieved July 17, 2013.
15. Sepinwall, Alan (2020-01-10). "'Little America' Review: Exiles on Main Street". Rolling Stone. Retrieved 2022-06-30.
16. Film Review. Orpheus Pub. 2008. p. 158.

External links

• Shaun Toub at IMDb
• Shaun Toub's website {web archive}
• Shaun Toub cover story in OCPC magazine {web archive}