Navid Negahban
- Schauspiel
- 2. Juni 1968 · Mashhad, Iran
Biografie
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
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Filmografie
- The Fix · Qasim
- Splinter Cell: Deathwatch · Reza "Gunther" Karimi (Stimme)
- WondLa · Loroc (Stimme)
- Am Abgrund · Tofik Gasimov
- Rendezvous mit Torten · Isaac
- Kandahar · Mohammad 'Mo' Doud
- Ghosts of Beirut · Ali Reza Asgari (2007)
- In the Garden of Tulips
- The Night Agent · Abbas Mansuri
- Batman: The Doom That Came to Gotham · Ra's al Ghul (Stimme)
- Tehranto · Narrator (Stimme)
- The Serpent Queen · Claude de Lorraine
- Pantheon · Farhad (Stimme)
- The Old Man · Faraz Hamzad
- The Cleaning Lady · Hayak Barsamian
- Dark Corners · Karim
- The First Goodbye
- Teheran · Masoud Tabrizi
- London Arabia · Mo, Produktion
- In Full Bloom · The Shepherd (Stimme)
- Aladdin · Sultan
- Saat des Terrors · Kashif Baqri
- God Friended Me · Hasan, Hassan
- 12 Strong - Die wahre Geschichte der US-Horse-Soldiers · General Dostum
- Osprey · Adam Zakaria, Koproduktion
- Die Damaskus Verschwörung · Sarraj
- Carving a Life · Dr. Kasem
- American Assassin · Minister Behurz
- Price for Freedom · Victor Daniels
- Castlevania · Sala (Stimme)
- Sand Castle · Kadeer
- Window Horses: The Poetic Persian Epiphany of Rosie Ming · Mehran (Stimme)
- Feuer im Kopf · Dr. Najjar
- Legion · Amahl Farouk / Shadow King
- Becoming the Enemy · Victor Daniels
- Sniper: Ghost Shooter · Mothershed
- Jimmy Vestvood: Amerikan Hero · Mohammad Mohammad-Mohammadi
- באבא ג'ון · Itzhak
- Day One · Dr. Nasir
- The Team · Said Gharbour
- American Sniper · Sheikh Al-Obeidi
- Scorpion · Agent Khara
- Words & Pictures · Rashid
- The Moment · Malik Jamil
- 20 Minutes - The Power of Few · Sahel
- Arrow · Al Ow-Al
- Veep – Die Vizepräsidentin · Abbas
- Homeland · Abu Nazir
- Person of Interest · Ali Hasan
- Die Atlas Trilogie: Teil 1 - Wer ist John Galt? · Dr. Robert Stadler
- Heal · Abdul
- Brothers · Murad
- Dead Air · Abir
- NCIS: Los Angeles · Aziz Anshiri
- Liberation · Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi
- Dark Blue · Ahmad Satar
- Diplomacy · Iranian Foreign Minister
- The Stoning of Soraya M. · Ali
- Powder Blue · Doctor Brooks
- The Ambassador's Wife · Ambassador
- Stellina Blue · Amir Keshavarz
- The Mentalist · Hassan Zarif
- Fringe - Grenzfälle des FBI · Dr. Malik Yusef
- Djinn · Djinn
- Der Krieg des Charlie Wilson · Refugee Camp Translator
- Broken · Keith
- Moonlight · Amir Fayed
- Murder 101: If Wishes Were Horses · Sheik Ahmad
- Richard III · Sir James Tyrrel
- Shark · Amir Khan
- The Unit - Eine Frage der Ehre · Faheed
- Over There - Kommando Irak · Iraqi Father
- Criminal Minds · Hassan Nadir
- The Closer · Dr. al-Thani
- Revenge of the Giant Mummy · Ammon
- High School Confidential · Mr. Azzouni
- Lost · Omar
- Saving Jessica Lynch · Fedayeen Colonel
- Navy CIS · Jalil Shaloub
- Las Vegas · Farouk Naeem