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Navid Negahban

Known For: Acting
Born: —
Place of Birth: Mashhad, Iran

Navid Negahban

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 Sultan in Disney's live-action Aladdin (2019), General Abdul Rashid Dostum in 12 Strong (2018), Sheikh Al-Obodi in American Sniper (2014), Faraz Hamzad in FX's The Old Man (2022–2024), and Abbas Mansuri i…

Filmography

The Fix

2026 · Qasim

Splinter Cell: Deathwatch

2025 · Reza "Gunther" Karimi (voice)

WondLa

2024 · Loroc (voice)

Am Abgrund

2024 · Tofik Gasimov

Sitting in Bars with Cake

2023 · Isaac

Kandahar

2023 · Mohammad 'Mo' Doud

Ghosts of Beirut

2023 · Ali Reza Asgari (2007)

In the Garden of Tulips

2023

The Night Agent

2023 · Abbas Mansuri

Batman: The Doom That Came to Gotham

2023 · Ra's al Ghul (voice)

Tehranto

2022 · Narrator (voice)

The Serpent Queen

2022 · Claude de Lorraine

Pantheon

2022 · Farhad (voice)

The Old Man

2022 · Faraz Hamzad

The Cleaning Lady

2022 · Hayak Barsamian

Dark Corners

2021 · Karim

The First Goodbye

2021

Tehran

2020 · Masoud Tabrizi

London Arabia

2019 · Mo, Producer

In Full Bloom

2019 · The Shepherd (voice)

Aladdin

2019 · Sultan

Saat des Terrors

2018 · Kashif Baqri

God Friended Me

2018 · Hasan, Hassan

12 Strong

2018 · General Dostum

Osprey

2017 · Adam Zakaria, Co-Producer

Damascus Cover

2017 · Sarraj

Carving a Life

2017 · Dr. Kasem

American Assassin

2017 · Minister Behurz

Price for Freedom

2017 · Victor Daniels

Castlevania

2017 · Sala (voice)

Sand Castle

2017 · Kadeer

Window Horses: The Poetic Persian Epiphany of Rosie Ming

2017 · Mehran (voice)

Brain on Fire

2017 · Dr. Najjar

Legion

2017 · Amahl Farouk / Shadow King

Becoming the Enemy

2017 · Victor Daniels

Sniper: Ghost Shooter

2016 · Mothershed

Jimmy Vestvood: Amerikan Hero

2016 · Mohammad Mohammad-Mohammadi

Baba Joon

2015 · Itzhak

Day One

2015 · Dr. Nasir

The Team

2015 · Said Gharbour

American Sniper

2014 · Sheikh Al-Obeidi

Scorpion

2014 · Agent Khara

Words and Pictures

2014 · Rashid

The Moment

2013 · Malik Jamil

The Power of Few

2013 · Sahel

Arrow

2012 · Al Ow-Al

Veep

2012 · Abbas

Homeland

2011 · Abu Nazir

Person of Interest

2011 · Ali Hasan

Atlas Shrugged: Part I

2011 · Dr. Robert Stadler

Heal

2010 · Abdul

Brothers

2009 · Murad

Dead Air

2009 · Abir

NCIS: Los Angeles

2009 · Aziz Anshiri

Liberation

2009 · Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi

Dark Blue

2009 · Ahmad Satar

Diplomacy

2009 · Iranian Foreign Minister

The Stoning of Soraya M.

2009 · Ali

Powder Blue

2009 · Doctor Brooks

The Ambassador's Wife

2009 · Ambassador

Stellina Blue

2009 · Amir Keshavarz

The Mentalist

2008 · Hassan Zarif

Fringe

2008 · Dr. Malik Yusef

Djinn

2008 · Djinn

Charlie Wilson's War

2007 · Refugee Camp Translator

Broken

2007 · Keith

Moonlight

2007 · Amir Fayed

Murder 101: If Wishes Were Horses

2007 · Sheik Ahmad

Richard III

2007 · Sir James Tyrrel

Shark

2006 · Amir Khan

The Unit

2006 · Faheed

Over There

2005 · Iraqi Father

Criminal Minds

2005 · Hassan Nadir

The Closer

2005 · Dr. al-Thani

The Fallen Ones

2005 · Ammon

Pretty Persuasion

2005 · Mr. Azzouni

Lost

2004 · Omar

Saving Jessica Lynch

2003 · Fedayeen Colonel

NCIS

2003 · Jalil Shaloub

Las Vegas

2003 · Farouk Naeem

Threat Matrix

2003 · Fred

War Stories

2003 · Al Qaeda Rebel at Bridge

Without a Trace

2002 · Nazar Rahim

CSI: Miami

2002 · Rahim Farooq

The Shield

2002 · Zayed Al-Thani

24

2001 · Abdullah, Jamot

Alias

2001 · Foreman

The Agency

2001 · Palestinian Officer, Arab Driver

Curb Your Enthusiasm

2000 · Morsi

Boundaries

2000 · Trombonist

The West Wing

1999 · Maz

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

1999 · Sam Farhidi, Rankesh Chanoor

JAG

1995 · Jamal Bin Fahad Al-Hadi

Law & Order

1990 · Imam Ibrahim

Scene of the Crime

1970 · Harun

The Apple Tree

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