Navid Negahban
Acting
Born 1968-06-02
Mashhad, Iran
97 credits
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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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Filmography
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The Mentalist
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Law & Order
Criminal Minds
NCIS
CSI: Miami
Lost
Person of Interest
Arrow
Homeland
NCIS: Los Angeles
24
Scene of the Crime
The West Wing
JAG
The Closer
Curb Your Enthusiasm
Fringe
The Night Agent
Without a Trace
The Shield
Scorpion
The Cleaning Lady
Las Vegas
Veep
The Unit
Legion
Tehran
Aladdin
The Old Man
American Sniper
Pantheon
Castlevania
Shark
The Agency
Dark Blue
12 Strong
WondLa
Brothers
The Serpent Queen
American Assassin
God Friended Me
Moonlight
Threat Matrix
Alias
Kandahar
Over There
Splinter Cell: Deathwatch
Sand Castle
Pretty Persuasion
Charlie Wilson's War
Atlas Shrugged: Part I
Batman: The Doom That Came to Gotham
Sniper: Ghost Shooter
The Team
Powder Blue
Brain on Fire
The Fix
The Stoning of Soraya M.
Ghosts of Beirut
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