Shaun Toub

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.

Known For: Acting

Born: Tehran, Iran, 1958-02-15

Died: null

Film

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1988	Out of Time	Speechmaker	40
2	1993	Hot Shots! Part Deux	Sleeping Guard	65
3	1995	Bad Boys	Store Clerk	68
4	1996	Broken Arrow	Max	61
5	1996	Executive Decision	Terrorist	63
6	1996	Suddenly		40
7	1997	Steel Sharks	Capt. Reza Lashgar	52
8	1999	Stigmata	Doctor	63
9	1999	D.R.E.A.M. Team	Prince Ali Saleed	50
10	2002	Maryam	Dr. Darius Armin	80
11	2002	Live from Baghdad	Sadoun Al-Jenabi	67
12	2004	Land of Plenty	Hassan	62
13	2005	Crash	Farhad	72
14	2006	The Nativity Story	Joachim	70
15	2007	The Kite Runner	Rahim Kahn	73
16	2007	Charlie Wilson's War	Hassan (uncredited)	65
17	2008	Iron Man	Yinsen	77
18	2010	The Last Airbender	Uncle Iroh	46
19	2011	Setup	Roth	49
20	2013	Iron Man 3	Ho Yinsen	69
21	2014	Stretch	Nasseem	62
22	2015	Unity	Narrator (voice)	75
23	2015	Papa Hemingway in Cuba	Evan Shipman	57
24	2016	War Dogs	Marlboro	69
25	2019	Forgive Me	Davood	0
26	2020	Ghosts of War	Mr. Helwig	62

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1971	Columbo	Amir	81
2	1984	Hunter	DePaul	72
3	1986	Matlock		71
4	1987	Married... with Children	Shaun Toub	77
5	1989	Seinfeld	Pinter Ranawat	83
6	1989	Mancuso, F.B.I.		60
7	1992	Bodies of Evidence		75
8	1993	Walker, Texas Ranger	Lance Charles	70
9	1993	Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman	Asabi	70
10	1993	Cafe Americain	Colonel Faisal	63
11	1994	Ellen	Foreign Man	62
12	1994	ER	Butler	78
13	1995	Sliders	Kheri-Heb	76
14	1995	Can't Hurry Love	Mattress Salesman	60
15	1995	Can't Hurry Love	Ahmed	60
16	1995	JAG	Prison Commandant	73
17	1996	Pacific Blue	Mahmood	53
18	1996	Nash Bridges		67
19	1996	Early Edition	Hassan Rejim	73
20	1997	Just Shoot Me!	Ernesto	66
21	1997	The Visitor		60
22	1997	Soldier of Fortune, Inc.	Hamzed Ali Amin	61
23	1998	Charmed	Triad Member	82
24	1999	The Sopranos	Arouk Abboubi	87
25	1999	CI5: The New Professionals		65
26	2000	Malcolm in the Middle	Janic	85
27	2000	Son of the Beach		66
28	2000	The District	Boris	68
29	2001	The Division	Yuri	70
30	2001	Special Unit 2	Herkamer	74
31	2002	She Spies	Joshua Bick	74
32	2003	NCIS	Khalid Mohammed Bakr	76
33	2004	Lost	Sami	79
34	2006	The Unit		73
35	2006	The Path to 9/11	Emad Salem	71
36	2006	Smith		71
37	2007	Chuck	Dr. Mohammed Zamir	77
38	2009	Castle	Philip Boyd	80
39	2011	Homeland	Majid Javadi	76
40	2011	Grimm	Conrad Bonaparte	83
41	2012	Scandal	Ambassador Marashi	71
42	2020	Little America	Faraz	67
43	2020	Snowpiercer	Terence	74
44	2020	Tehran	Faraz Kamali	75

No.

Year

Title

Role

Vote Average

1971