Shaun Toub
Acting
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:…
Filmography
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Ghosts of War
2020
Tehran
2020
Snowpiercer
2020
Little America
2020
Forgive Me
2019
The Chosen
2019
War Dogs
2016
Papa Hemingway in Cuba
2015
Unity
2015
Stretch
2014
Iron Man 3
2013
Scandal
2012
Grimm
2011
Setup
2011
Homeland
2011
The Last Airbender
2010
Castle
2009
Iron Man
2008
Charlie Wilson's War
2007
The Kite Runner
2007
Chuck
2007
The Nativity Story
2006
Smith
2006
The Path to 9/11
2006
The Unit
2006
Crash
2005
Lost
2004
Land of Plenty
2004
NCIS
2003
Live from Baghdad
2002
She Spies
2002
Maryam
2002
The Agency
2001
Special Unit 2
2001
The Division
2001
The District
2000
Son of the Beach
2000
Malcolm in the Middle
2000
D.R.E.A.M. Team
1999
CI5: The New Professionals
1999
Stigmata
1999
The Sopranos
1999
Charmed
1998
Steel Sharks
1997
Soldier of Fortune, Inc.
1997
The Visitor
1997
Just Shoot Me!
1997
Suddenly
1996
Early Edition
1996
Nash Bridges
1996
Executive Decision
1996
Pacific Blue
1996
Broken Arrow
1996
JAG
1995
Can't Hurry Love
1995
Bad Boys
1995
Sliders
1995
Cybill
1995
ER
1994
Ellen
1994
Cafe Americain
1993
Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman
1993
Living Single
1993
Hot Shots! Part Deux
1993
Walker, Texas Ranger
1993
Bodies of Evidence
1992
Mancuso, F.B.I.
1989
Seinfeld
1989
Out of Time
1988
Married... with Children
1987
Matlock
1986
Hunter
1984
Columbo
1971