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Navid Negahban
- Name: Navid Negahban
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- Also known as: 네이비드 네가반,نوید نگهبان
- Place of birth: Mashhad, Iran
- Popularity: 2.3398
Biography:
Navid Negahban is an Iranian-American actor, producer, and director whose work spans four decades, three continents, and over 166 credits in film, television, and video games.
Born in Mashhad, Iran, he discovered theater at eight years old. He left Iran in 1985, traveling through Turkey and Bulgaria before arriving at a refugee camp in Ingelheim, Germany, where he applied for asylum. He spent eight years performing with the Rheinland-Pfalz Theater in Kaiserslautern before moving to the United States in 1993. He is fluent in Persian, English, and German.
He is best known for playing Abu Nazir in Showtime's Homeland (2011–2013), Amahl Farouk / Shadow King in FX's Legion (2017–2019), The... Read More
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| Title | Release date |
|---|---|
| Am Abgrund as Tofik Gasimov | 2024-03-01 |
| Sitting in Bars with Cake as Isaac | 2023-09-07 |
| Kandahar as Mohammad 'Mo' Doud | 2023-05-25 |
| In the Garden of Tulips | 2023-04-14 |
| Batman: The Doom That Came to Gotham as Ra's al Ghul (voice) | 2023-03-10 |
| Tehranto as Narrator (voice) | 2022-11-25 |
| Dark Corners as Karim | 2021-02-05 |
| The First Goodbye | 2021-02-01 |
| London Arabia as Mo | 2019-08-07 |
| In Full Bloom as The Shepherd (voice) | 2019-06-19 |
| Aladdin as Sultan | 2019-05-22 |
| Saat des Terrors as Kashif Baqri | 2018-11-21 |
| 12 Strong as General Dostum | 2018-01-18 |
| Osprey as Adam Zakaria | 2017-11-06 |
| Damascus Cover as Sarraj | 2017-10-23 |
| Carving a Life as Dr. Kasem | 2017-10-13 |
| American Assassin as Minister Behurz | 2017-07-14 |
| Price for Freedom as Victor Daniels | 2017-07-07 |
| Sand Castle as Kadeer | 2017-04-21 |
| Window Horses: The Poetic Persian Epiphany of Rosie Ming as Mehran (voice) | 2017-03-10 |
| Brain on Fire as Dr. Najjar | 2017-02-22 |
| Becoming the Enemy as Victor Daniels | 2017-01-01 |
| Sniper: Ghost Shooter as Mothershed | 2016-08-02 |
| Jimmy Vestvood: Amerikan Hero as Mohammad Mohammad-Mohammadi | 2016-03-13 |
| Baba Joon as Itzhak | 2015-09-10 |
| Day One as Dr. Nasir | 2015-02-27 |
| American Sniper as Sheikh Al-Obeidi | 2014-12-25 |
| Words and Pictures as Rashid | 2014-05-22 |
| The Moment as Malik Jamil | 2013-04-21 |
| The Power of Few as Sahel | 2013-02-15 |
| Atlas Shrugged: Part I as Dr. Robert Stadler | 2011-04-14 |
| Heal as Abdul | 2010-03-26 |
| Brothers as Murad | 2009-12-02 |
| Dead Air as Abir | 2009-10-27 |
| Liberation as Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi | 2009-07-26 |
| Diplomacy as Iranian Foreign Minister | 2009-07-10 |
| The Stoning of Soraya M. as Ali | 2009-06-26 |
| Powder Blue as Doctor Brooks | 2009-05-08 |
| The Ambassador's Wife as Ambassador | 2009-02-01 |
| Stellina Blue as Amir Keshavarz | 2009-01-01 |
| Djinn as Djinn | 2008-03-06 |
| Charlie Wilson's War as Refugee Camp Translator | 2007-12-19 |
| Broken as Keith | 2007-10-05 |
| Murder 101: If Wishes Were Horses as Sheik Ahmad | 2007-08-09 |
| Richard III as Sir James Tyrrel | 2007-06-13 |
| The Fallen Ones as Ammon | 2005-05-14 |
| Pretty Persuasion as Mr. Azzouni | 2005-01-22 |
| Saving Jessica Lynch as Fedayeen Colonel | 2003-11-08 |
| War Stories as Al Qaeda Rebel at Bridge | 2003-01-29 |
| Boundaries as Trombonist | 2000-07-26 |
