Portrait of Faran Tahir

Faran Tahir

Acting

Biography

Faran Haroon Tahir (Urdu: فاران ہارون طاہر) is an American actor. Tahir made his film debut as Nathoo in Disney's 1994 film The Jungle Book. He went on to star in a variety of roles, such as Raza in Iron Man (2008), Captain Robau in Star Trek (2009), and President Patel in Elysium (2013). In 2016, he played the title role of Othello in a production by the Shakespeare Theatre Company in Washington, D.C. Description above from the Wikipedia article Faran Tahir, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Born: February 16, 1963

Place of Birth: Los Angeles, California, USA

Filmography

2024
Witness

as Imam Mustafa

2024
The Window

as Farhad

2024
Coup!

as Kaan

2024
Paper Flowers

as Mr. Shah

2022
The Old Man

as Rahmani

2021
Injustice

as Ra's al Ghul (vocie)

2021
CSI: Vegas

as Gray Suit

2021
Lamya's Poem

as Baha Walad (voice)

2020
2019
2018
FBI

as Ravi Sharma

2017
Mad Genius

as Eden

2016
MacGyver

as The Fence

2016
Honeyglue

as Dr. Konig

2015
The Magicians

as The Great Cock of the Darkling Woods

2015
Supergirl

as The Commander

2015
Flight World War II

as William Strong

2015
American Crime

as Rhys Bashir

2015
12 Monkeys

as Mallick

2014
2014
Jinn

as Ali

2014
Crisis

as Tariq Rind

2013
Torn

as Ali Munsif

2013
Escape Plan

as Javed

2013
Elysium

as President Patel

2013
Star Trek: Secrets of the Universe

as Richar Robau (archive footage) (uncredited)

2013
Mr. Jones

as The Anthropologist

2012
Elementary

as Ramses Mattoo

2012
Dallas

as 'Smiling' Frank

2012
Scandal

as President Rashad

2011
Once Upon a Time

as Captain Nemo

2011
Ashes

as Kartik

2011
Shameless

as Adeeb Singh

2010
Hawaii Five-0

as Lucky Morad

2009
NCIS: Los Angeles

as Hassad Al-Jahiri

2009
Warehouse 13

as Adwin Kosan

2009
Star Trek

as Captain Robau

2008
2008
In Plain Sight

as Ali Tavali

2008
Iron Man

as Raza

2007
Charlie Wilson's War

as Brigadier Rashid

2007
2007
Chuck

as Farrokh Bulsara

2007
Burn Notice

as Ahmad Damour

2005
Manticore

as Umari

2005
Over There

as Hamza

2005
Criminal Minds

as Tivon Askari

2005
Supernatural

as Osiris

2005
2004
Lost

as Ishmael Bakir

2002
Monk

as Museum Official

2001
24

as Tomas Sherek

2001
24

as Mosque Greeter

2001
Alias

as Mokhtar

2000
Boston Public

as Mr. Mubarik

2000
FreakyLinks

as Doctor

1999
Anywhere but Here

as Hisham Badir

1999
ABCD

as Raj

1999
1999
Family Law

as Dr. Singh

1998
Charmed

as Savard

1998
A Price Above Rubies

as Hrundi Kapoor

1997
1997
The Practice

as Dr. Michael Shields

1996
7th Heaven

as Mr. Halawi

1995
JAG

as Amad Bin Atwa

1994
1990
Law & Order

as Mr. Khan

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IJ Inspector Jamshed

as Zafar Burki

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