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Shaun Toub
American actor (born 1958) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Shaun Toub (born February 15, 1958)[2] 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).[3]
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Early life
Toub was born to an Iranian Jewish family,[4] in Tehran,[1] Imperial State of Iran. His parents were both podiatrists. At age 2, he moved to Manchester, England,[5] where his mother attended podiatry school. He returned to Iran, where he lived until he was 13, before moving to Switzerland. He moved to Nashua, New Hampshire to finish his last year of high school.[citation needed] He decided at age five to become an actor.[6]
He received the Cinema Sepharad award at the 2022 Los Angeles Sephardic Film Festival.[7]
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Career

His filmography includes his performance in Michael Bay's Bad Boys with Will Smith and Martin Lawrence, John Woo's Broken Arrow with John Travolta and Christian Slater and Mick Jackson's Live from Baghdad starring Michael Keaton and Helena Bonham Carter for HBO. His performance as Farhad in Paul Haggis's Oscar-winning film Crash received positive reviews.[8] He played the part of the Virgin Mary's father in The Nativity Story. He also played Rahim Khan in The Kite Runner (2007).[9]
In the series Grimm, he played the part of Bonaparte, one of the villains of the latest series.[10]
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