Navid Negahban
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Birthplace: Mashhad, Iran
Gender: Male
Owned By: Unowned
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 in Netflix's The Night Agent (2025).
As a producer, his film Baba Joon won five Ophir Awards including Best Picture at the Israeli Film Academy. As a director, his short film The Apple Tree won Best Short Film at the Japan Indies Film Festival (2025). He received a BAFTA Games Award nomination for Best Performer for his work on 1979 Revolution: Black Friday (2017).
He is represented by Innovative Artists. Official website: https://navidnegahban.com
Credits
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2026-10-16 | Hotel Tehran | Qasim |
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2024-03-01 | Am Abgrund | Tofik Gasimov |
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2023-09-07 | Sitting in Bars with Cake | Isaac |
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2023-05-25 | Kandahar | Mohammad 'Mo' Doud |
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2023-04-14 | In the Garden of Tulips | |
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2023-03-10 | Batman: The Doom That Came to Gotham | Ra's al Ghul (voice) |
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2021-02-05 | Dark Corners | Karim |
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2021-02-01 | The First Goodbye | |
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2019-08-07 | London Arabia | Mo |
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2019-06-19 | In Full Bloom | The Shepherd (voice) |
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2019-05-22 | Aladdin | Sultan |
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2018-11-21 | Saat des Terrors | Kashif Baqri |
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2018-01-18 | 12 Strong | General Dostum |
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2017-11-06 | Osprey | Adam Zakaria |
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2017-10-23 | Damascus Cover | Sarraj |
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2017-10-13 | Carving a Life | Dr. Kasem |
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2017-07-14 | American Assassin | Minister Behurz |
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2017-07-07 | Price for Freedom | Victor Daniels |
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2017-04-21 | Sand Castle | Kadeer |
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2017-03-10 | Window Horses: The Poetic Persian Epiphany of Rosie Ming | Mehran (voice) |
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2017-02-22 | Brain on Fire | Dr. Najjar |
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2017-01-01 | Becoming the Enemy | Victor Daniels |
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2016-08-02 | Sniper: Ghost Shooter | Mothershed |
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2016-03-13 | Jimmy Vestvood: Amerikan Hero | Mohammad Mohammad-Mohammadi |
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2015-09-10 | Baba Joon | Itzhak |
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2015-02-27 | Day One | Dr. Nasir |
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2014-12-25 | American Sniper | Sheikh Al-Obeidi |
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2014-05-22 | Words and Pictures | Rashid |
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2013-04-21 | The Moment | Malik Jamil |
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2013-02-15 | The Power of Few | Sahel |
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2011-04-14 | Atlas Shrugged: Part I | Dr. Robert Stadler |
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2010-03-26 | Heal | Abdul |
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2009-12-02 | Brothers | Murad |
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2009-10-27 | Dead Air | Abir |
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2009-07-26 | Liberation | Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi |
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2009-07-10 | Diplomacy | Iranian Foreign Minister |
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2009-06-26 | The Stoning of Soraya M. | Ali |
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2009-05-08 | Powder Blue | Doctor Brooks |
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2009-02-01 | The Ambassador's Wife | Ambassador |
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2009-01-01 | Stellina Blue | Amir Keshavarz |
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2008-03-06 | Djinn | Djinn |
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2007-12-19 | Charlie Wilson's War | Refugee Camp Translator |
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2007-10-05 | Broken | Keith |
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2007-08-09 | Murder 101: If Wishes Were Horses | Sheik Ahmad |
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2007-06-13 | Richard III | Sir James Tyrrel |
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2005-05-14 | The Fallen Ones | Ammon |
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2005-01-22 | Pretty Persuasion | Mr. Azzouni |
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2003-11-08 | Saving Jessica Lynch | Fedayeen Colonel |
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2003-01-29 | War Stories | Al Qaeda Rebel at Bridge |
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2000-07-26 | Boundaries | Trombonist |