Shaun Toub

Shaun Toub
Toub at the 83rd Academy Awards
Born	1963 Tehran, Iran
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1988–present

Shaun Toub (Persian: شان طوب‎, born 1963) 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 movie Iron Man.

Personal life

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.

Career

Through a chance encounter with an astute talent agent, he broke into the Hollywood scene. Toub has received accolades for several of his appearances in over 100 television episodes including Seinfeld, the Sopranos, ER, Just Shoot Me, Sliders, Nash Bridges, JAG, NCIS, The Bold and the Beautiful, Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman, Married... with Children, Lost, Living Single and various movies made for television.

His filmography includes his memorable performance in Michael Bay's Bad Boys with Will Smith and Martin Lawrence, John Woo's Broken Arrow with John Travolta and Christian Slater, Mick Jackson's Live from Baghdad starring Michael Keaton and Helena Bonham Carter for HBO, and Path to Paradise with Peter Gallagher, Marcia Gay Harden also for HBO. His performance as Farhad in Paul Haggis's Oscar-winning film Crash, a critical and box office surprise hit, received positive reviews. He played the part of the father of Mary the mother of Jesus in The Nativity Story (2006). He also plays the role of Rahim Khan in The Kite Runner (2007).

He appeared in the Marvel Comics adaptation Iron Man as Yinsen with his Crash co-star, Terrence Howard. He reprised his role as Yinsen for the video game adaptation and in a small cameo during Iron Man 3.

Filmography

Films

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1988	Out of Time	Speechmaker	Television film
1988	Glitz	Maitre'd	Television film
1989	Dark Holiday	Prison Soldier	Television film
1991	Before the Storm	Jeep Soldier	Television film
1993	Desperate Resuce: The Cathy Mahone Story	N/A	N/A
1993	Hot Shots! Part Deux	Sleeping Guard	N/A
1995	OP Center	Lt. Arkov	Television film
1995	Bad Boys	Store Clerk	N/A
1996	Broken Arrow	Max	N/A
1996	Executive Decision	Terrorist	N/A
1996	Suddenly	Mr. Tabibsidan	Television film
1997	Path to Paradise	El Sayyid Nosair	Television film
1997	Steel Sharks	Capt. Reza Lashgar	N/A
1997	Out to Sea	Bettor in Front	N/A
1999	Stigmata	Doctor	N/A
1999	D.R.E.A.M. Team	Prince Ali Saleed	Television film
2002	Maryam	Dr. Darius Armin	N/A
2002	Live from Baghdad	Sadoun Al-Jenabi	Television film
2003	Underground	Dark Skinnned Man	Short film
2004	Land of Plenty	Hassan	N/A
2004	Crash	Farhad	N/A
2006	The Path to 9/11	Emad Salem	Television film
2006	The Nativity Story	Joaquim	N/A
2007	The Kite Runner	Rahim Khan	N/A
2007	Charlie Wilson's War	Hassan	Uncredited
2008	Iron Man	Yinsen	N/A
2010	The Last Airbender	Uncle Iroh	N/A
2011	Setup	Roth	N/A
2013	Iron Man 3	Yinsen	Cameo
2013	Papa	Evan Shipman	N/A

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1988	Hunter	Phillip DePaul/Stephen Avak	Episodes "Need Justice: Part 1" and "Need Justice: Part 2"
1990	Columbo	Amir	Episode: "Agenda for Murder"
1990	Matlock	Rahmad Hussein	Episode: "Nowhere to Turn"
1990	Dragnet	Ralph Singas	Episode: "Queen of Hearts"
1990	Gabriel's Fire	Attendant	Episode: "Windows"
1991	Under Cover	Jeep Soldier	Episode: "Sacrifices"
1991	In the Heat of the Night	Cabby	Episode: "Unfinished Business"
1993	Bodies of Evidence	Rajeeb Kambata	Episode: "Eleven Grains of Sand"
1993–1994	Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman	Asabi	Episodes "Pilot", "Neverending Battle", "I'm Looking Through You" and "All Shook You"
1994	Living Single	Cabby	Episode: "Fatal Distraction"
1994	Café Americain	Colonel Faisal	Episode: "Love the One You're With"
1994	One West Waikiki	Joseph Kastrami	Episode: "Terminal Island"
1994	The Bold and the Beautiful	Moustafa	2 episodes
1994	Married... with Children	Akbar	Episode: "A Man for No Seasons"
1995	Ellen	Foreign Man	Episode: "Hello, I Must Be Going"
1995	JAG	Prison Commandant	Episode: "Scimitar"
1996–1997	Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman	Asabi	Episodes "Second" and "I've Got You Under My Skin"
1996	Sisters	Weatherman	Episode: "Don't Go to Springfield"
1996	Nash Bridges	Cecil Riskin	Episode: "Hit Parade"
1996	Sliders	Kheri-Heb	Episode: "Slide Like an Egyptian"
1996–1997	Pacific Blue	Mahmood	Episodes "Outlaw Extreme" and "The Last Ride"
1997	Walker, Texas Ranger	Lance	Episode: "Last Hope"
1997	ER	Butler	Episode: "Ground Zero"
1997	Seinfeld	Pinter	Episode: "The Betrayer"
1997	The Visitor	N/A	Episode: "Going Home"
1998	Early Edition	Hassan Rejim	Episode: "Mum's the Word"
1998	Cybill	Scary Man	Episode: "Ka-Boom!"
1998	Soldier of Fortune, Inc.	Hamzed Ali Amin	Episode: "Iraq and Roll"
1999	G vs E	Dr. Clean	Episode: "Evilator"
1999	CI5: The New Professionals	Shabadi	Episode: "Orbit"
1999	Just Shoot Me!	Ernesto	Episode: "Love Is in the Air"
2000	Cover Me	Spiros	Episode: "Where Have You Gone, Sandy Koufax?"
2000	Charmed	Triad Member #2	Episodes "Magic Hour", "Sight Unseen" and "Power Outrage"
2001	Malcolm in the Middle	Janic	Episode: "Hal Quits"
2001	The Sopranos	Arouk Abboubi	Episode: "Employee of the Month"
2001	Son of the Beach	Mohammed	Episode: "Chip's a Goy"
2001	Special Unit 2	Herkamer	Episode: "The Wraps"
2001	The District	Boris	Episodes "Fools Russian: Part 1" and "Fools Russian: Part 2"
2001	The Division	Yuri	Episode: "The First Hit's Free, Baby"
2002	She Spies	Joshua Bick	Episode: "Poster Girl"
2003	The Agency	Colonel Tambour - Al Tayeh's Deputy	Episode: "Unholy Alliances"
2006–2007	Smith	Jerry	Episodes "Pilot", "Three" and "Four"
2007	Lost	Sami	Episode: "Enter 77"
2008	NCIS	Khalid Mohammed Bakr	Episode: "Tribes"
2009	The Unit	Misha Belikov	Episode: "Bad Beat"
2009	Chuck	Dr. Mohammed Zamir	Episode: "Chuck Versus the Broken Heart"
2011	Castle	Philip Boyd	Episode: "Head Case"
2012	Luck	Dr. Khan	Episodes "Ace Forces Escalante to Swap Jockeys" and "Two Prized Colts Go Head-to-Head"
2012	Last Resort	Admiral Safir Ahsan	Episode: "Cinderella Liberty"

Video game

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2008	Iron Man	Yinsen	N/A

External links

• Shaun Toub at the Internet Movie Database
• Shaun Toub's website
• Shaun Toub cover story in OCPC magazine