Acting credits
94
Prolific
Very extensive acting filmography.
Actor
Navid Negahban
Acting
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Movies: 50Series: 44Crew credits: 2
TMDB ID: 103330
IMDb ID: nm1041023
Known for: Acting
Born: June 2, 1968
Age: 58
Place of birth: Mashhad, Iran
Gender: Male
Adult content flag: No
Career span: 1970 - 2026
Years active: 57
Average TMDB rating: 7.02
Wikidata: Q723366
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Biography
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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Movie credits linked with Navid Negahban.
In 4 weeks
as Qasim
The Fix
2026 • Movie
as Tofik Gasimov
Am Abgrund
2024 • Movie
as Isaac
Sitting in Bars with Cake
2023 • Movie
as Mohammad 'Mo' Doud
Kandahar
2023 • Movie
In the Garden of Tulips
2023 • Movie
as Ra's al Ghul (voice)
Batman: The Doom That Came to Gotham
2023 • Movie
as Narrator (voice)
Tehranto
2022 • Movie
as Karim
Dark Corners
2021 • Movie
The First Goodbye
2021 • Movie
as Mo
London Arabia
2019 • Movie
as The Shepherd (voice)
In Full Bloom
2019 • Movie
as Sultan
Aladdin
2019 • Movie
as Kashif Baqri
Saat des Terrors
2018 • Movie
as General Dostum
12 Strong
2018 • Movie
as Adam Zakaria
Osprey
2017 • Movie
as Sarraj
Damascus Cover
2017 • Movie
as Dr. Kasem
Carving a Life
2017 • Movie
as Minister Behurz
American Assassin
2017 • Movie
as Victor Daniels
Price for Freedom
2017 • Movie
as Kadeer
Sand Castle
2017 • Movie
as Mehran (voice)
Window Horses: The Poetic Persian Epiphany of Rosie Ming
2017 • Movie
as Dr. Najjar
Brain on Fire
2017 • Movie
as Victor Daniels
Becoming the Enemy
2017 • Movie
as Mothershed
Sniper: Ghost Shooter
2016 • Movie
Series
Series
Series credits linked with Navid Negahban.
as Reza "Gunther" Karimi (voice) • 8 eps
Splinter Cell: Deathwatch
2025 • Series
as Loroc (voice) • 1 eps
WondLa
2024 • Series
as Ali Reza Asgari (2007) • 3 eps
Ghosts of Beirut
2023 • Series
as Abbas Mansuri • 7 eps
The Night Agent
2023 • Series
as Claude de Lorraine • 1 eps
The Serpent Queen
2022 • Series
as Farhad (voice) • 3 eps
Pantheon
2022 • Series
as Faraz Hamzad • 9 eps
The Old Man
2022 • Series
as Hayak Barsamian • 11 eps
The Cleaning Lady
2022 • Series
as Masoud Tabrizi • 8 eps
Tehran
2020 • Series
as Hasan • 1 eps
God Friended Me
2018 • Series
as Sala (voice) • 10 eps
Castlevania
2017 • Series
as Amahl Farouk / Shadow King • 19 eps
Legion
2017 • Series
as Said Gharbour • 8 eps
The Team
2015 • Series
as Agent Khara • 1 eps
Scorpion
2014 • Series
as Al Ow-Al • 1 eps
Arrow
2012 • Series
as Abbas • 1 eps
Veep
2012 • Series
as Abu Nazir • 25 eps
Homeland
2011 • Series
as Ali Hasan • 1 eps
Person of Interest
2011 • Series
as Aziz Anshiri • 1 eps
NCIS: Los Angeles
2009 • Series
as Ahmad Satar • 1 eps
Dark Blue
2009 • Series
as Hassan Zarif • 1 eps
The Mentalist
2008 • Series
as Dr. Malik Yusef • 1 eps
Fringe
2008 • Series
as Amir Fayed • 1 eps
Moonlight
2007 • Series
as Amir Khan • 1 eps
Shark
2006 • Series