Navid Negahban ( fa, نوید نگهبان; born June 2, 1968) is an Iranian-American actor. He has appeared on '' 24'', ''

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'', '' Mistresses'' and as

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in the second and third seasons of FX's ''

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''. He has also starred as The Sultan in the live-action remake of ''

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''.

Early life

Negahban was born in

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, Iran. He took a liking to the theater when he was eight years old, while provoking laughter from a large audience by portraying an old man on stage. He left Iran in 1985 when he was 17 for Turkey and then Germany, where he spent eight years. In Germany, he worked for a theater company, and then in 1993 he moved to the United States. He is fluent in English, German and Persian. He also began learning French for his role on ''

''.

Career

He has appeared in ''

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'', ''

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'', ''

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'', and ''

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''. He has collaborated twice with Iranian-American actress

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, once in '' 24'', where her on-screen husband ordered his interrogation and the torturing of his family, and also in ''CSI: Miami'', where, as his wife, she killed him. Negahban also had two collaborations with another Iranian-American actress,

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, in the TV series ''

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'' and the movie '' The Stoning of Soraya M.'', where he plays the husband of Soraya (Marnò). In 2008, Negahban voiced and provided his likeness to the character Dr. Challus Mercer in the survival horror game ''

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''. Negahban also appeared as terrorist mastermind Abu Nazir in the critically acclaimed TV series ''

''. In 2011 he won the Best Actor Award for the 2009 Iranian short film, ''Liberation'' at the Noor Iranian Film Festival, and in 2012, he returned to serve as an official festival judge. In February 2015, ''

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'' and ''

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'' confirmed that Negahban had begun shooting the spy thriller, ''

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'', based on the novel by Howard Kaplan, alongside

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and

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. Negahban played the role of Syrian General Sarraj. Negahban appeared as General

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in the 2018 war drama, ''

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'', and also starred as the Sultan in the 2019 live-action adaptation of ''Aladdin''. In 2022, he appears in the American crime drama television series '' The Cleaning Lady'' as Hayak Barsamian, an Armenian Mob Boss.

Filmography

References

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Negahban, Navid 1968 births Living people American male film actors American male television actors Iranian male film actors Iranian male television actors People from Mashhad 20th-century American male actors 21st-century American male actors Iranian emigrants to Turkey Iranian emigrants to the United States Iranian emigrants to Germany Exiles of the Iranian Revolution in Germany Exiles of the Iranian Revolution in the United States