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Shaun Toub is an American actor, television actor and film actor born on 6 April 1963 in Tehran, Iran. He holds United States citizenship and was educated at the University of Southern California. His native language is Persian, though he also speaks and writes English, and his career in acting began in 1988.
Toub follows Judaism as his religion, and belongs to the Sephardi and Mizrahi Jewish ethnic groups.
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Film & TV
Acting · Tehran, Iran
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…
Known for
- Ghosts of War — Mr. Helwig2020
- Tehran — Faraz Kamali2020
- Snowpiercer — Terence2020
- Little America — Faraz2020
- Forgive Me — Davood2019
- The Chosen2019
- War Dogs — Marlboro2016
- Unity — Narrator (voice)2015
- Papa Hemingway in Cuba — Evan Shipman2015
- Stretch — Nasseem2014
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- PLINK: A Tool Set for Whole-Genome Association and Population-Based Linkage Analyses
· 2007 · cited 31,364x
- Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
· 2020 · cited 15,936x
- Second-generation PLINK: rising to the challenge of larger and richer datasets
· 2015 · cited 12,077x
- Analysis of protein-coding genetic variation in 60,706 humans
· 2016 · cited 9,051x
- Global burden of 87 risk factors in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
· 2020 · cited 7,992x
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Key facts
- Born
- ( 1958-02-15 ) February 15, 1958 (age 68) , Tehran , Imperial State of Iran
- Alma mater
- University of Southern California
- Occupation
- Actor
- Years active
- 1988–present
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Tehran
- Occupation
- film actor
- Educated at
- University of Southern California
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Native language
- Persian
- Religion
- Judaism
- Field of work
- acting
- Official website
- www.shauntoub.com
- Image
- Tehran (TV S) 4.jpg
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- Commons category
- Shaun Toub
- date of birth
- 1963-04-06
- start of work period
- 1988-00-00
- writing language
- English language
- ethnic group
- Mizrahi Jews
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Encyclopedic overview
Shaun Toub (born February 15, 1958) is an American actor. He has played the character Yinsen in Iron Man (2008) and Iron Man 3 (2013); Farhad in Crash (2004); Rahim Khan in The Kite Runner (2007); Majid Javadi in the Showtime television series Homeland; and Faraz Kamali in the Apple TV+ Israeli series Tehran (2020–2025).
Early life
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