Shaun Toub

Born: 1958-02-15

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 Atlantic to Nashua, New Hampshire to finish his last year of high school. His high school yearbook notes: "The funniest guy in school and the most likely to succeed in the entertainment world." After two years of college in Massachusetts, Shaun transferred to USC. Shaun is active in the Iranian Jewish community. Through various charity events and public speaking engagements, he inspires the community to embrace the arts, as the arts enhance everyday life. He has been a recipient of the Sephard award at the Los Angeles Sephardic Film Festival. Toub currently resides in Los Angeles.


See
Placeholder

as Yinsen
Released: 2008-04-30

After being held captive in an Afghan cave, billionaire engineer Tony Stark creates a unique...

Movie page
See!
as Store Clerk
Released: 1995-04-07

Marcus Burnett is a henpecked family man. Mike Lowry is a footloose and fancy free ladies' man....

Movie page
See!
as Ho Yinsen
Released: 2013-04-18

When Tony Stark's world is torn apart by a formidable terrorist called the Mandarin, he starts...

Movie page
See!

The Last Airbender

as Uncle Iroh
Released: 2010-06-30

The story follows the adventures of Aang, a young successor to a long line of Avatars, who must...

Movie page
as Sleeping Guard
Released: 1993-05-21

Topper Harley is found to be working as an odd-job-man in a monastery. The CIA want him to lead...

Movie page
See!

War Dogs

as Marlboro
Released: 2016-08-18

Based on the true story of two young men, David Packouz and Efraim Diveroli, who won a $300...

Movie page

Broken Arrow

as Max
Released: 1996-02-09

When rogue stealth-fighter pilot Vic Deakins deliberately drops off the radar while on...

Movie page

The Nativity Story

as Joachim
Released: 2006-11-30

Mary and Joseph make the hard journey to Bethlehem for a blessed event in this retelling of the...

Movie page

Stigmata

as Doctor
Released: 1999-09-02

A young woman with no strong religious beliefs, Frankie Paige begins having strange and violent...

Movie page

Crash

as Farhad
Released: 2005-05-06

In post-Sept. 11 Los Angeles, tensions erupt when the lives of a Brentwood housewife, her...

Movie page

Executive Decision

as Terrorist
Released: 1996-03-15

Terrorists hijack a 747 inbound to Washington D.C., demanding the release of their imprisoned...

Movie page

The Kite Runner

as Rahim Kahn
Released: 2007-12-14

After spending years in California, Amir returns to his homeland in Afghanistan to help his old...

Movie page

Setup

as Roth
Released: 2011-10-17

A group of friends plan out a detailed heist that turns deadly when one betrays the other by...

Movie page
as Hassan (uncredited)
Released: 2007-12-19

The true story of Texas congressman Charlie Wilson's covert dealings in Afghanistan, where his...

Movie page
Don't See

Ghosts of War

as Mr. Helwig
Released: 2020-07-03

A group of World War II American soldiers encounter a supernatural enemy as they occupy a French...

Movie page

Stretch

as Nasseem
Released: 2014-10-14

A hard-luck limo driver struggling to go straight and pay off a debt to his bookie takes on a...

Movie page

Live from Baghdad

as Sadoun Al-Jenabi
Released: 2002-12-07

A group of CNN reporters wrestle with journalistic ethics and the life-and-death perils of...

Movie page

Unity

as Narrator (voice)
Released: 2015-08-12

Despite the advent of science, literature, technology, philosophy, religion, and so on -- none...

Movie page

Land of Plenty

as Hassan
Released: 2004-09-10

After living abroad, Lana returns to the United States, and finds that her uncle is a reclusive...

Movie page

Papa Hemingway in Cuba

as Evan Shipman
Released: 2015-11-19

In 1959, a young journalist ventures to Havana, Cuba to meet his idol, the legendary Ernest...

Movie page

Steel Sharks

as Capt. Reza Lashgar
Released: 1997-10-10

In this undersea thriller, a United States submarine is seized by terrorists. But a rescue...

Movie page

D.R.E.A.M. Team

as Prince Ali Saleed
Released: 1999-09-25

J.W. Garrison, the head of a top-secret sub agency of the United Nations, discovers that a team...

Movie page

Out of Time

as Speechmaker
Released: 1988-07-17

A cop from the future goes back in time to Los Angeles and teams up with his grandfather to...

Movie page

Suddenly

as uncredited
Released: 1996-12-01

Just as Mary is about to take a romantic vacation with her boyfriend, a terrible accident leaves...

Movie page

Maryam

as Dr. Darius Armin
Released: 2002-02-22

An Iranian-born teenager living in suburban New Jersey thinks of herself as simply an American...

Movie page

Forgive Me

as Davood
Released: 2019-10-25

A forbidden love story in a forbidden place.

Movie page

NCIS

as Khalid Mohammed Bakr
First aired: 2003-09-23

From murder and espionage to terrorism and stolen submarines, a team of special agents...

TV Show page

The Sopranos

as Arouk Abboubi
First aired: 1999-01-10

The story of New Jersey-based Italian-American mobster Tony Soprano and the difficulties he...

TV Show page

Charmed

as Triad Member
First aired: 1998-10-07

Three sisters (Prue, Piper and Phoebe) reunite and unlock their powers to become the Charmed...

TV Show page

Grimm

as Conrad Bonaparte
First aired: 2011-10-28

After Portland homicide detective Nick Burkhardt discovers he's descended from an elite line of...

TV Show page

JAG

as Prison Commandant
First aired: 1995-09-23

Harmon "Harm" Rabb Jr. is a former pilot turned lawyer working for the military's JAG (Judge...

TV Show page

Seinfeld

as Pinter Ranawat
First aired: 1989-07-05

A stand-up comedian and his three offbeat friends weather the pitfalls and payoffs of life in...

TV Show page

Homeland

as Majid Javadi
First aired: 2011-10-02

CIA officer Carrie Mathison is tops in her field despite being bipolar, which makes her volatile...

TV Show page

Lost

as Sami
First aired: 2004-09-22

Stripped of everything, the survivors of a horrific plane crash must work together to stay...

TV Show page

Castle

as Philip Boyd
First aired: 2009-03-09

After a serial killer imitates the plots of his novels, successful mystery novelist Richard...

TV Show page

Columbo

as Amir
First aired: 1971-09-15

Columbo is a friendly, verbose, disheveled-looking police detective who is consistently...

TV Show page

Malcolm in the Middle

as Janic
First aired: 2000-01-09

A gifted young teen tries to survive life with his dimwitted, dysfunctional family.

TV Show page

Matlock

as uncredited
First aired: 1986-03-03

Matlock is an American television legal drama, starring Andy Griffith in the title role of...

TV Show page

Married... with Children

as Shaun Toub
First aired: 1987-04-05

Al Bundy is an unsuccessful middle aged shoe salesman with a miserable life and an equally...

TV Show page

Chuck

as Dr. Mohammed Zamir
First aired: 2007-09-24

When Buy More computer geek Chuck Bartowski unwittingly downloads a database of government...

TV Show page

Sliders

as Kheri-Heb
First aired: 1995-03-22

In his basement in San Francisco, boy-genius Quinn Mallory unlocks the doorway to an infinite...

TV Show page

Snowpiercer

as Terence
First aired: 2020-05-17

More than seven years after the world has become a frozen wasteland, the remnants of humanity...

TV Show page

ER

as Butler
First aired: 1994-09-19

ER explores the inner workings of an urban teaching hospital and the critical issues faced by...

TV Show page

Walker, Texas Ranger

as Lance Charles
First aired: 1993-04-21

Modern-day Texas Ranger, Cordell Walker's independent crime-solving methods have their roots in...

TV Show page

Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman

as Asabi
First aired: 1993-09-12

A much more lavish version of the popular Superman television series which had first aired forty...

TV Show page

The Unit

as uncredited
First aired: 2006-03-07

A covert team of special forces operatives risk their lives on undercover missions around the...

TV Show page

Nash Bridges

as uncredited
First aired: 1996-03-29

Fun-loving San Francisco Police Department investigator Nash Bridges is part of the elite...

TV Show page

Early Edition

as uncredited
First aired: 1996-09-28

Gary Hobson thinks he may even be losing his mind when tomorrow's newspaper mysteriously arrives...

TV Show page

She Spies

as Joshua Bick
First aired: 2002-07-20

She Spies is an action-adventure television show that ran from September 9, 2002 until May 17,...

TV Show page

Just Shoot Me!

as uncredited
First aired: 1997-03-04

Just Shoot Me! is an American television sitcom that aired for seven seasons on NBC from March...

TV Show page

Hunter

as DePaul
First aired: 1984-09-18

Hunter is an American police drama television series created by Frank Lupo, and starring Fred...

TV Show page

The District

as Boris
First aired: 2000-10-07

The District is a television police drama which aired on CBS from October 7, 2000 to May 1,...

TV Show page

The Division

as uncredited
First aired: 2001-01-07

The Division is an American crime drama television series created by Deborah Joy LeVine and...

TV Show page

Tehran

as Faraz Kamali
First aired: 2020-06-22

Tamar is a Mossad hacker-agent who infiltrates Tehran under a false identity to help destroy...

TV Show page

Special Unit 2

as Herkamer
First aired: 2001-04-11

Detectives Nick O'Malley and Kate Benson work in Special Unit 2, a secret precinct of the...

TV Show page

Son of the Beach

as uncredited
First aired: 2000-03-14

A parody of "Baywatch" featuring Malibu Adjacent's Notch Johnson, the world's greatest lifeguard...

TV Show page

Little America

as Faraz
First aired: 2020-01-17

An anthology series that goes beyond the headlines to look at the funny, romantic, heartfelt,...

TV Show page

Mancuso, F.B.I.

as uncredited
First aired: 1989-10-13

Mancuso, F.B.I. is a crime drama which was aired by NBC as part of its 1989-90...

TV Show page

Bodies of Evidence

as uncredited
First aired: 1992-06-18

Bodies of Evidence is a police drama that aired on CBS from June 1992 to May 1993. It stars Lee...

TV Show page

The Visitor

as uncredited
First aired: 1997-09-19

The Visitor is a science fiction television series created by Roland Emmerich and Dean Devlin...

TV Show page

Smith

as uncredited
First aired: 2006-09-19

Though Bobby Stevens appears to be a regular family man with a nine-to-five job, he's actually...

TV Show page

The Path to 9/11

as Emad Salem
First aired: 2006-09-10

Beginning with the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center and ending on the morning of 9/11, the...

TV Show page

CI5: The New Professionals

as uncredited
First aired: 1999-09-19

In this 1998 re-imagining of the original The Professionals TV show, CI5 now has an...

TV Show page