Omid Abtahi

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Omid Abtahi at WonderCon 2016 in Los Angeles

Omid Abtahi ( listen ? / I ; born July 12, 1979 in Tehran ) is an Iranian - American actor . Audio file / audio sample

Life

Omid Abtahi was born in the Iranian capital Tehran . At the age of five, his parents moved with him to Paris and a little later to the USA and finally settled in Irvine , California . Abtahi was now ten years old.

Abtahi graduated from high school in Irvine and attended California State University in Fullerton . In 2002 he received a master's degree in theater.

Before his film and television career began, Abtahi first appeared in plays in various California theater locations, including in Miss Elise . He has been in front of the camera since 2005. This was followed by appearances in series such as JAG - On behalf of the honor , 24 - Twenty Four and Ghost Whisperer - Voices from the Beyond . To advance his career, Abtahi moved to Los Angeles a little later and received recurring roles in the series Over There and Sleeper Cell . For the role of Pfc. Tariq Nassiri in the first series he learned the French language . As a result, Abtahi appeared in other series such as Navy CIS , The Mentalist , Fringe - Grenzfalls des FBI , Good Wife , Navy CIS: LA , Castle , Legends , The Blacklist , Madam Secretary , Hawaii Five-0 , Shameless , Those Who Kill and Damien , where he was the main cast on the latter two series.

In 2011 he was part of the cast of the acclaimed first season of the spy series Homeland as Raqim Faisal . He also gained international fame through his roles in the films Argo and The Hunger Games - Mockingjay Part 2 . Since 2017 he has been part of the cast of American Gods as Salim . In 2019 he took over the role of Dr. Pershing in the Disney + series The Mandalorian .

In addition to his acting activities, Abtahi also repeatedly speaks roles in video games, so u. a. in Call of Duty: Black Ops II , Diablo III , Unit 13 , Mafia III , Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare or Days Gone .

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  1. ↑ Ethan Hawkes: Alumnus Omid Abtahi cast in Hunger Games. In: ocregister.com. September 17, 2014, accessed January 29, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Abtahi, Omid
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Iranian-American actor
DATE OF BIRTH July 12, 1979
PLACE OF BIRTH Tehran , Iran