Navid Negahban

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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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2026
The Fix
Movie Qasim
2025
Splinter Cell: Deathwatch
TV show Reza "Gunther" Karimi (voice)
2024
WondLa
TV show Loroc (voice)
2024
Am Abgrund
Movie Tofik Gasimov
2023
Sitting in Bars with Cake
Movie Isaac
2023
Kandahar
Movie Mohammad 'Mo' Doud
2023
Ghosts of Beirut
TV show Ali Reza Asgari (2007)
2023
In the Garden of Tulips
Movie
2023
The Night Agent
TV show Abbas Mansuri
2023
Batman: The Doom That Came to Gotham
Movie Ra's al Ghul (voice)
2022
Tehranto
Movie Narrator (voice)
2022
The Serpent Queen
TV show Claude de Lorraine
2022
Pantheon
TV show Farhad (voice)
2022
The Old Man
TV show Faraz Hamzad
2022
The Cleaning Lady
TV show Hayak Barsamian
2021
Dark Corners
Movie Karim

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2021
The First Goodbye
Movie
2020
Tehran
TV show Masoud Tabrizi
2019
London Arabia
Movie Mo
2019
In Full Bloom
Movie The Shepherd (voice)
2019
Aladdin
Movie Sultan
2018
Saat des Terrors
Movie Kashif Baqri
2018
God Friended Me
TV show Hasan
2018
12 Strong
Movie General Dostum
2017
Osprey
Movie Adam Zakaria
2017
Damascus Cover
Movie Sarraj
2017
Carving a Life
Movie Dr. Kasem
2017
American Assassin
Movie Minister Behurz
2017
Castlevania
TV show Sala (voice)
2017
Price for Freedom
Movie Victor Daniels
2017
Sand Castle
Movie Kadeer
2017
Window Horses: The Poetic Persian Epiphany of Rosie Ming
Movie Mehran (voice)
2017
Brain on Fire
Movie Dr. Najjar
2017
Legion
TV show Amahl Farouk / Shadow King
2017
Becoming the Enemy
Movie Victor Daniels
2016
Sniper: Ghost Shooter
Movie Mothershed
2016
Jimmy Vestvood: Amerikan Hero
Movie Mohammad Mohammad-Mohammadi
2015
Baba Joon
Movie Itzhak
2015
Day One
Movie Dr. Nasir
2015
The Team
TV show Said Gharbour