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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…
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- Ghosts of War — Mr. Helwig2020
- Tehran — Faraz Kamali2020
- Snowpiercer — Terence2020
- Little America — Faraz2020
- Forgive Me — Davood2019
- The Chosen2019
- War Dogs — Marlboro2016
- Unity — Narrator (voice)2015
- Papa Hemingway in Cuba — Evan Shipman2015
- Stretch — Nasseem2014
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Shaun Toub (born February 15, 1958) is an American actor. He has played the character Yinsen in Iron Man (2008) and Iron Man 3 (2013); Farhad in Crash (2004); Rahim Khan in The Kite Runner (2007); Majid Javadi in the Showtime television series Homeland; and Faraz Kamali in the Apple TV+ Israeli series Tehran (2020–2025).
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1958 births20th-century American male actors20th-century American Sephardic Jews21st-century American male actors21st-century American Sephardic JewsAmerican male film actorsAmerican male television actorsAmerican Mizrahi JewsAmerican people of Iranian-Jewish descentBLP articles lacking sources from June 2022Iranian emigrants to the United Kingdom