Shaun Toub
Birthday
1958/02/15 (67 years old)
Gender
Male
Place of Birth
Tehran, Iran
Also know as
샤운 토웁
Biography
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 revolution). At the age of fourteen, he moved to Switzerland and after a two year stay, he crossed the Atlant...Read more
Acting
(2004) Land of Plenty
as Hassan
(2010) The Last Airbender
as Uncle Iroh
(2008) Iron Man
as Yinsen
(1999) Stigmata
as Doctor
(2006) The Nativity Story
as Joachim
(2007) The Kite Runner
as Rahim Kahn
(1997) Steel Sharks
as Capt. Reza Lashgar
(2019) Forgive Me
as Davood
(2011) Setup
as Roth
(1993) Hot Shots! Part Deux
as Sleeping Guard
(1996) Suddenly
as ---
(2007) Charlie Wilson's War
as Hassan (uncredited)
(1999) D.R.E.A.M. Team
as Prince Ali Saleed
(2002) Maryam
as Dr. Darius Armin
(2005) Crash
as Farhad
(2013) Iron Man 3
as Ho Yinsen
(2014) Stretch
as Nasseem
(2015) Unity
as Narrator (voice)
(2016) War Dogs
as Marlboro
(2015) Papa Hemingway in Cuba
as Evan Shipman
(1988) Out of Time
as Speechmaker
(1996) Executive Decision
as Terrorist
(2020) Ghosts of War
as Mr. Helwig
(1995) Bad Boys
as Store Clerk
(2002) Live from Baghdad
as Sadoun Al-Jenabi
(1996) Broken Arrow
as Max
(1996) Nash Bridges
as ---
(2000) Son of the Beach
as ---
(1989) Seinfeld
as Pinter Ranawat
(2000) The District
as Boris
(2001) The Division
as ---
(2006) Smith
as ---
(1995) Sliders
as Kheri-Heb
(1986) Matlock
as ---
(1996) Early Edition
as ---
(2006) The Unit
as ---
(2000) Malcolm in the Middle
as Janic
(1993) Walker, Texas Ranger
as Lance Charles
(1989) Mancuso, F.B.I.
as ---
(2004) Lost
as Sami
(2003) NCIS
as Khalid Mohammed Bakr
(1984) Hunter
as DePaul
(1997) Just Shoot Me!
as Ernesto
(2006) The Path to 9/11
as Emad Salem
(1997) The Visitor
as ---
(1999) CI5: The New Professionals
as ---
(1971) Columbo
as Amir
(1992) Bodies of Evidence
as ---
(2009) Castle
as Philip Boyd
(2007) Chuck
as Dr. Mohammed Zamir
(1999) The Sopranos
as Arouk Abboubi
(2011) Grimm
as Conrad Bonaparte
(1987) Married... with Children
as Shaun Toub
(2001) Special Unit 2
as Herkamer
(2012) Scandal
as Ambassador Marashi
(1993) Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman
as Asabi
(1995) JAG
as Prison Commandant
(2011) Homeland
as Majid Javadi
(1998) Charmed
as Triad Member
(2020) Tehran
as Faraz Kamali
(1997) Soldier of Fortune, Inc.
as Hamzed Ali Amin
(2002) She Spies
as Joshua Bick
(2020) Snowpiercer
as Terence
(1994) ER
as Butler
(1994) Ellen
as Foreign Man
(1993) Cafe Americain
as Colonel Faisal
(2020) Little America
as Faraz
(1996) Pacific Blue
as Mahmood