Navid Negahban
Acting
1968-06-02 · Mashhad, Iran
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
TheatersThe Fix
2026 · Movie
Splinter Cell: Deathwatch
2025 · Series
WondLa
2024 · Series
Am Abgrund
2024 · Movie
Sitting in Bars with Cake
2023 · Movie
Kandahar
2023 · Movie
Ghosts of Beirut
2023 · Series
In the Garden of Tulips
2023 · Movie
The Night Agent
2023 · Series
Batman: The Doom That Came to Gotham
2023 · Movie
Tehranto
2022 · Movie
The Serpent Queen
2022 · Series
Pantheon
2022 · Series
The Old Man
2022 · Series
The Cleaning Lady
2022 · Series
Dark Corners
2021 · Movie
The First Goodbye
2021 · Movie
Tehran
2020 · Series
London Arabia
2019 · Movie
In Full Bloom
2019 · Movie
Aladdin
2019 · Movie
Saat des Terrors
2018 · Movie
God Friended Me
2018 · Series
12 Strong
2018 · Movie
Osprey
2017 · Movie
Damascus Cover
2017 · Movie
Carving a Life
2017 · Movie
American Assassin
2017 · Movie
Castlevania
2017 · Series
Price for Freedom
2017 · Movie
Sand Castle
2017 · Movie
Window Horses: The Poetic Persian Epiphany of Rosie Ming
2017 · Movie
Brain on Fire
2017 · Movie
Legion
2017 · Series
Becoming the Enemy
2017 · Movie
Sniper: Ghost Shooter
2016 · Movie
Jimmy Vestvood: Amerikan Hero
2016 · Movie
Baba Joon
2015 · Movie
Day One
2015 · Movie
The Team
2015 · Series
American Sniper
2014 · Movie
Scorpion
2014 · Series
Words and Pictures
2014 · Movie
The Moment
2013 · Movie
The Power of Few
2013 · Movie
Arrow
2012 · Series
Veep
2012 · Series
Homeland
2011 · Series
Person of Interest
2011 · Series
Atlas Shrugged: Part I
2011 · Movie
Heal
2010 · Movie
Brothers
2009 · Movie
Dead Air
2009 · Movie
NCIS: Los Angeles
2009 · Series
Liberation
2009 · Movie
Dark Blue
2009 · Series
Diplomacy
2009 · Movie
The Stoning of Soraya M.
2009 · Movie
Powder Blue
2009 · Movie
The Ambassador's Wife
2009 · Movie
Stellina Blue
2009 · Movie
The Mentalist
2008 · Series
Fringe
2008 · Series
Djinn
2008 · Movie
Charlie Wilson's War
2007 · Movie
Broken
2007 · Movie
Moonlight
2007 · Series
Murder 101: If Wishes Were Horses
2007 · Movie
Richard III
2007 · Movie
Shark
2006 · Series
The Unit
2006 · Series
Over There
2005 · Series
Criminal Minds
2005 · Series
The Closer
2005 · Series
The Fallen Ones
2005 · Movie
Pretty Persuasion
2005 · Movie
Lost
2004 · Series
Saving Jessica Lynch
2003 · Movie
NCIS
2003 · Series
Las Vegas
2003 · Series
Threat Matrix
2003 · Series
War Stories
2003 · Movie
Without a Trace
2002 · Series
CSI: Miami
2002 · Series
The Shield
2002 · Series
24
2001 · Series
Alias
2001 · Series
The Agency
2001 · Series
Curb Your Enthusiasm
2000 · Series
Boundaries
2000 · Movie
The West Wing
1999 · Series
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
1999 · Series
JAG
1995 · Series
Law & Order
1990 · Series
Scene of the Crime
1970 · Series
The Marshal
Movie
The Apple Tree
Movie
Clear Cut, Simple
Movie