Keon Alexander

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Keon Alexander
Keon Mohajeri with Norman Jewison and guests at the 2011 Canadian Film Centre (CFC) Annual BBQ -b.jpg
Alexander, 2011
Born
Canada
OccupationActor
Years active2009 – present

Keon Alexander, also known as Keon Mohajeri, [1] is a Canadian actor best known for his television roles as Marco Inaros in The Expanse , Rami Said in Tyrant and Dominick Baptiste in Impulse .

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Biography

Alexander is of Persian heritage. [2] His early roles included a guest appearance in an episode of Flashpoint (2009) and a six-episode stint in the television adaptation of Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures (2010), playing the part of Sri. This was followed by his first film role in Circumstance (2011), [3] which won the Audience Award: Dramatic at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival and was ranked one of the 50 best movies of 2011 by Paste magazine. [4]

Keon was named one of Canada's Rising Stars by the Toronto International Film Festival in 2011. [1]

Over the next few years, Alexander appeared in many TV series—including Murdoch Mysteries (2012), Republic of Doyle (2012), Legends (2014), and Remedy (2015)—before landing the Recurring Role of Rami Said in FX's Tyrant , in which he appeared in the second and third Seasons from 2015 to 2016. [5]

Alexander has had recurring roles as Dominick Baptiste in the television series Impulse (2018) [6] and as Marco Inaros in the science fiction series The Expanse . [7] [8] [9] As of season 5, he became a series regular on The Expanse. [10]

Filmography

YearTitleRoleNotes
2009 Flashpoint John MartensTV series (1 episode)
2010Bloodletting & Miraculous CuresSri Mini-series (6 episodes)
2011 Circumstance JoeyFilm
2011 Good Dog Doctor WilliamsTV series (1 episode)
2012 Murdoch Mysteries Fouad SharifTV series (1 episode)
2012 Republic of Doyle Holden NeelyTV series (1 episode)
2013The Resurrection of Tony GitoneMale HipsterFilm
2013Rewind [11] CharlieTV movie
2014 Taxi Brooklyn ArashTV series (1 episode)
2014 Legends Chief AbdelTV series (1 episode)
2015 Remedy Jason KazemiTV series (3 episodes)
2015–2016 Tyrant Rami SaidTV series (10 episodes)
2016 Killjoys Sam RomwellTV series (1 episode)
2016Eugenia and JohnCarlosFilm
2016 Pure Genius Bashir MasoodTV series (1 episode)
2018 Impulse Dominick BaptisteTV series (5 episodes)
2018 NCIS Nazy RickmanTV series (1 episode)
2019 A Simple Wedding KamranFilm
2019–2022 The Expanse Marco InarosTV series (18 episodes)
2024 Quantum Leap 2022 Ricardo BaraganTV series (1 episode)

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