Portrait of Ramsey Faragallah

Ramsey Faragallah

Acting

Biography

Ramsey Faragallah is an actor, writer, voice over artist & teacher. Onstage he has appeared at the Kennedy Center, The Public Theater, Playwrights Horizons, Manhattan Theater Club, Rikers Island and other minimum and maximum security prisons, Yale University, Sundance, Woolley Mammoth, The Guthrie Theater, American Repertory Theater, Oregon Shakespeare, Play Co, The McCarter, The Culture Project, Williamstown, Hartford Stage, Red Bull, New York Stage & Film, The New Vic (London) and numerous theaters internationally. His many television appearances include recurring and guest star roles in Tommy, Bull, Mozart in the Jungle, Taken, Madame Secretary, The Black List, Homeland, and the Law & Order trifecta, He has worked alongside Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, Nicole Kidman, Sean Penn, Susan Sarandon, George Clooney, Kenneth Branagh and appeared in the films of Sidney Pollack, Sidney Lumet and several films of Woody Allen among others and is in the upcoming Rupert Wyatt epic Desert Warrior. Voice over work for Radio Lab, This American Life, Playing on Air, NOVA, Random House, Penguin and & thirteen seasons on the Late Show with David Letterman. Ramsey studied with Ms. Stella Adler, is a member of The Actors Center. He enjoys shooting skeet, trap and sporting clays and is enthusiastically dedicated to restoring, driving & racing vintage automobiles-sometimes even legally.

Born: January 21, 1964

Place of Birth: Los Angeles, California, USA

Filmography

2023
Our Son

as Judge Reynolds

2020
Tommy

as Shiekh Fayed

2018
Manifest

as Nazir Tehrani

2017
2017
Taken

as Zev

2016
Search Party

as Milad

2016
Falling Water

as Aeskyton Counselor

2016
Bull

as Henry Wakefield

2016
2014
State of Affairs

as General Abu Said Khan

2014
Madam Secretary

as Omar Arif

2014
Mozart in the Jungle

as Daniel Mahajan

2013
The Blacklist

as Ali Hassan

2012
King Kelly

as Liquor Store Clerk

2012
NYC 22

as Sameer Al-Harani

2011
Homeland

as Mansour Al-Zahrani

2011
Person of Interest

as ' Farooq Madan

2011
Unforgettable

as Mr. Al-Bayati

2010
2010
2009
2009
The Unusuals

as Sanjay Ghani

2009
The Greatest

as Dr. Shamban

2008
Little Spirit: Christmas in New York

as Hot Dog Vendor (voice)

2008
Life on Mars

as Raimes' Lawyer

2007
Army Wives

as Sheik Jaffar Al-Kahlid

2007
The Warrior Class

as Dr. Patel

2006
30 Rock

as Sheik

2005
The Interpreter

as Polygraph Technician

2004
Strip Search

as Abdul Amin

2003
Hope & Faith

as Guard

2003
Uptown Girls

as Limo Driver

2002
People I Know

as David Fielding

2002
Hollywood Ending

as Audition Reader

2001
2001
The Curse of the Jade Scorpion

as Fingerprint Detective

2001
The Job

as Fleshy Guy

2000
2000
Small Time Crooks

as Potters' Waiter

1999
Third Watch

as Maharabian

1999
Coming Soon

as Wahid

1999
The Sopranos

as Fed #1

1998
Celebrity

as TV Program Director

1997
The Peacemaker

as New York Cabbie

1996
Ed's Next Move

as Dr. Banarjee

1994
Insomnia

as Lunatic Ice Skater

1990
Law & Order

as Samir Hamed

1990
Law & Order

as Mahmud

1990
Law & Order

as Mr. Tobak

1990
Law & Order

as Dr. Supay

1990
Law & Order

as David Prescott