Shaun Toub
Born in Tehran, Iran
Biography
Shaun Toub is an Iranian-American film and television actor. He is perhaps best known for his role as Farhad in the 2004 movie Crash, as Rahim Khan in the movie The Kite Runner, and as Yinsen in the film adaptation of the Iron Man comic book series. Toub, who is of Persian Jewish background, was born in Tehran, Iran and raised in Manchester, England (his family left Iran before the 1979 revolution). At the age of fourteen, he moved to Switzerland and after a two year stay, he crossed the Atlantic to Nashua, New Hampshire to finish his last year of high…
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NCIS
Khalid Mohammed Bakr
Lost
Sami
Castle
Philip Boyd
Seinfeld
Pinter Ranawat
The Chosen
Grimm
Conrad Bonaparte
Homeland
Majid Javadi
The Sopranos
Arouk Abboubi
JAG
Prison Commandant
Charmed
Triad Member
Columbo
Amir
Chuck
Dr. Mohammed Zamir
Married... with Children
Shaun Toub
Malcolm in the Middle
Janic
Sliders
Kheri-Heb
Scandal
Ambassador Marashi
ER
Butler
Nash Bridges
Cecil Riskin
Early Edition
Hassan Rejim
Matlock
Rahmad Hussein
The Division
Yuri
Living Single
The Cabby
Walker, Texas Ranger
Lance Charles
Ellen
Foreign Man
Pacific Blue
Mahmood
Snowpiercer
Terence
Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman
Asabi
The District
Boris
Cybill
Scary Man
The Unit
The Agency
Colonel Tambour - Al Tayeh's Deputy
Hunter
DePaul
Iron Man
Yinsen
She Spies
Joshua Bick
Tehran
Faraz Kamali
Iron Man 3
Ho Yinsen
Just Shoot Me!
Ernesto
Son of the Beach
Special Unit 2
Herkamer
Bad Boys
Store Clerk
The Visitor
Little America
Faraz
Soldier of Fortune, Inc.
Hamzed Ali Amin
Bodies of Evidence
Crash
Farhad
Can't Hurry Love
Mattress Salesman
Mancuso, F.B.I.
War Dogs
Marlboro
CI5: The New Professionals
Smith
The Last Airbender
Uncle Iroh
Cafe Americain
Colonel Faisal
Stigmata
Doctor
Broken Arrow
Max
The Kite Runner
Rahim Kahn
Charlie Wilson's War
Hassan (uncredited)
Hot Shots! Part Deux
Sleeping Guard
Executive Decision
Terrorist
The Path to 9/11
Emad Salem
Setup
Roth
Ghosts of War
Mr. Helwig
Unity
Narrator (voice)
The Nativity Story
Joachim
Suddenly
Stretch
Nasseem
Live from Baghdad
Sadoun Al-Jenabi
Out of Time
Speechmaker
D.R.E.A.M. Team
Prince Ali Saleed
Land of Plenty
Hassan
Steel Sharks
Capt. Reza Lashgar
Papa Hemingway in Cuba
Evan Shipman
Maryam
Dr. Darius Armin
Forgive Me
Davood