Shaun Toub

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1958-02-15 (67 years old)

Place of Birth

Tehran, Iran

Shaun Toub

Biography

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...

Acting

2004

2010

The Last Airbender

as Uncle Iroh

2008

Iron Man

as Yinsen

1999

Stigmata

as Doctor

2006

2007

The Kite Runner

as Rahim Kahn

1997

Steel Sharks

as Capt. Reza Lashgar

2019

Forgive Me

as Davood

2011

Setup

as Roth

1993

Hot Shots! Part Deux

as Sleeping Guard

2007

Charlie Wilson's War

as Hassan (uncredited)

1999

D.R.E.A.M. Team

as Prince Ali Saleed

2002

Maryam

as Dr. Darius Armin

2005

Crash

as Farhad

2013

Iron Man 3

as Ho Yinsen

2014

Stretch

as Nasseem

2015

Unity

as Narrator (voice)

2016

War Dogs

as Marlboro

2015

Papa Hemingway in Cuba

as Evan Shipman

1988

Out of Time

as Speechmaker

1996

Executive Decision

as Terrorist

2020

Ghosts of War

as Mr. Helwig

1995

Bad Boys

as Store Clerk

2002

Live from Baghdad

as Sadoun Al-Jenabi

1996

Production

2019

Forgive Me

as Producer

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