Acting
Navid Negahban
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
Filmography
The Fix
Film · 2026
Splinter Cell: Deathwatch
Series · 2025
Am Abgrund
Film · 2024
WondLa
Series · 2024
Kandahar
Film · 2023
Sitting in Bars with Cake
Film · 2023
Batman: The Doom That Came to Gotham
Film · 2023
In the Garden of Tulips
Film · 2023
Ghosts of Beirut
Series · 2023
The Night Agent
Series · 2023
Tehranto
Film · 2022
The Cleaning Lady
Series · 2022
Pantheon
Series · 2022
The Old Man
Series · 2022
The Serpent Queen
Series · 2022
The First Goodbye
Film · 2021
Dark Corners
Film · 2021
Tehran
Series · 2020
Aladdin
Film · 2019
In Full Bloom
Film · 2019
London Arabia
Film · 2019
12 Strong
Film · 2018
Saat des Terrors
Film · 2018
God Friended Me
Series · 2018
God Friended Me
Series · 2018
Becoming the Enemy
Film · 2017
Osprey
Film · 2017
Damascus Cover
Film · 2017
Sand Castle
Film · 2017
Window Horses: The Poetic Persian Epiphany of Rosie Ming
Film · 2017
American Assassin
Film · 2017
Brain on Fire
Film · 2017
Carving a Life
Film · 2017
Price for Freedom
Film · 2017
Legion
Series · 2017
Castlevania
Series · 2017
Sniper: Ghost Shooter
Film · 2016
Jimmy Vestvood: Amerikan Hero
Film · 2016
Day One
Film · 2015
Baba Joon
Film · 2015
The Team
Series · 2015
American Sniper
Film · 2014
Words and Pictures
Film · 2014
Scorpion
Series · 2014
The Moment
Film · 2013
The Power of Few
Film · 2013
Veep
Series · 2012
Arrow
Series · 2012
Atlas Shrugged: Part I
Film · 2011
Homeland
Series · 2011
Person of Interest
Series · 2011
Heal
Film · 2010
Dead Air
Film · 2009
The Stoning of Soraya M.
Film · 2009
Powder Blue
Film · 2009
Brothers
Film · 2009
Stellina Blue
Film · 2009
Diplomacy
Film · 2009
Liberation
Film · 2009
The Ambassador's Wife
Film · 2009
NCIS: Los Angeles
Series · 2009
Dark Blue
Series · 2009
Djinn
Film · 2008
The Mentalist
Series · 2008
Fringe
Series · 2008
Richard III
Film · 2007
Murder 101: If Wishes Were Horses
Film · 2007
Broken
Film · 2007
Charlie Wilson's War
Film · 2007
Moonlight
Series · 2007
Shark
Series · 2006
The Unit
Series · 2006
The Fallen Ones
Film · 2005
Pretty Persuasion
Film · 2005
Criminal Minds
Series · 2005
The Closer
Series · 2005
Over There
Series · 2005
Lost
Series · 2004
Saving Jessica Lynch
Film · 2003
War Stories
Film · 2003
Threat Matrix
Series · 2003
Las Vegas
Series · 2003
NCIS
Series · 2003
The Shield
Series · 2002
Without a Trace
Series · 2002
CSI: Miami
Series · 2002
Alias
Series · 2001
24
Series · 2001
24
Series · 2001
The Agency
Series · 2001
The Agency
Series · 2001
Boundaries
Film · 2000
Curb Your Enthusiasm
Series · 2000
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Series · 1999
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Series · 1999
The West Wing
Series · 1999
JAG
Series · 1995
Law & Order
Series · 1990
Scene of the Crime
Series · 1970
The Marshal
Film
Clear Cut, Simple
Film