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Shaun Toub

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Shaun Toub

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Iranian-born American actor

Person · Open Library

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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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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Country
US
Active from
1961-01-07

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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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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

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Shaun Toub” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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