Kayvan Novak
| Kayvan Novak کیوان نواک |
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|---|---|
| Born | 23 November 1978 Cricklewood, North London |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Years active | 2002–present |
Kayvan Novak (Persian: کیوان نوک, born 23 November 1978, Cricklewood, North London) is an award-winning British Iranian[1] television actor and voice artist.[2]
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[edit] Career
[edit] Voice actor
Novak has provided voice work for three video games: Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit, Perfect Dark Zero and Kameo. He also voiced various characters in the ITV spoof sketch show Headcases.
[edit] Television
Novak has initially appeared as an extra on various British shows: soap opera Family Affairs, medical drama Holby City and spy series Spooks. In 2005 he and Ed Tracy created Fonejacker, a prank call-based show as part of Comedy Lab for Channel 4.[3] After the pilot, he was given a Christmas special and a six-part series, which after a three month delay, began airing on 5 July 2007 on E4 and 7 September 2007 on Channel 4. His characters include an orphaned mouse; an electronics aficionado who seems to have no belief in initialisms; a swearing cockney, bald car salesman; overweight Chinese students trying to sell bootlegged DVDs; a salesman who claims to work for companies with rude names; a salesman working for an Indian ISP and a Ugandan asking for bank account details, amongst many others.[citation needed]
On 27 November 2009, he appeared on the Channel 4 show Comedy Showcase: The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret, playing a Bomb Disposal Officer in a comedy sketch. Starting on 16 April 2010, Kayvan Novak appeared in a similar series to Fonejacker called Facejacker, in which he adopts various disguises, including several characters heard in Fonejacker. Novak filmed a scene for This Is England '86 which was cut from the final broadcast, but was available in the DVD extras. He was also one of the main characters in the television show entitled Sirens, that began 27 June 2011 on Channel 4 in the UK. Novak also featured in two episodes of Phone Shop the first in series 1 entitled "The First Temptation of Chris", the second in series 2 entitled "Revenge of the Razz", portraying area manager Razz Prince.
In addition to acting, Novak has made appearances as himself on shows Soccer A.M, Kiss 100, 8 out of 10 Cats, Celebrity Big Brother's Little Brother and Talksport.
[edit] Film
Novak has appeared as an intelligence officer in the Academy Award-winning film Syriana alongside Matt Damon and George Clooney and most recently as Waj in the film Four Lions by Chris Morris[4] for which he was awarded the Best Comedy Performance in a British Film award at the British Comedy Awards in 2011, beating fellow actor Nigel Lindsay for the same award in the same film. In 2008, he appeared in micro budget contemporary B-movie The Blue Tower.
[edit] Personal life
Novak is a fan of Liverpool F.C. He was privately educated at Highgate School.[5]
[edit] References
- ^ October 2008 interview for The Guardian, last accessed 5 June 2011
- ^ Kadivar, Darius Syriana breaks Iranian stereotypes, Persian Mirror, last accessed 3 August 2007.
- ^ Comedy Lab, Channel 4, last accessed 3 August 2007.
- ^ Kayvan Novak at the Internet Movie Database, last accessed 3 August 2007
- ^ kayvan-novak.co.tv
