Know For
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1958-02-15 (67 years old)
Place of Birth
Tehran, Iran
Also known As
샤운 토웁
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...
2004
as Hassan
2010
as Uncle Iroh
2008
as Yinsen
1999
as Doctor
2006
as Joachim
2007
as Rahim Kahn
1997
as Capt. Reza Lashgar
2019
as Davood
2011
as Roth
1993
as Sleeping Guard
1996
2007
as Hassan (uncredited)
1999
as Prince Ali Saleed
2002
as Dr. Darius Armin
2005
as Farhad
2013
as Ho Yinsen
2014
as Nasseem
2015
as Narrator (voice)
2016
as Marlboro
2015
as Evan Shipman
1988
as Speechmaker
1996
as Terrorist
2020
as Mr. Helwig
1995
as Store Clerk
2002
as Sadoun Al-Jenabi
1996
as Max
2019
as Producer
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