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 succeed in the entertainment world.” After two years of college in Massachusetts, Shaun transferred to USC.
Shaun is active in the Iranian Jewish community. Through various charity events and public speaking engagements, he inspires the community to embrace the arts, as the arts enhance everyday life. He has been a recipient of the Sephard award at the Los Angeles Sephardic Film Festival. Toub currently resides in Los Angeles.
Shaun Toub Biography / Wiki
| Name | Shaun Toub |
| Also Know | 샤운 í† ì› |
| Gender | Male |
| Known For | Acting |
| Place of Birth | Tehran – Iran |
| Date of Birth | 1958-02-15 |
| Age(as in 2022) | 64 |
| Deathday |
Shaun Toub Acting Movies
| Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
| Land of Plenty | Hassan | 2004-09-10 | After living abroad, Lana returns to the United States, and finds that her uncle is a reclusive vagabond with psychic wounds from the Vietnam War…. |
| Maryam | Dr. Darius Armin | 2002-02-22 | An Iranian-born teenager living in suburban New Jersey thinks of herself as simply an American until anti-Iranian sentiment erupts in her community af… |
| Forgive Me | Davood | 2019-10-25 | A forbidden love story in a forbidden place…. |
| The Nativity Story | Joachim | 2006-11-30 | Mary and Joseph make the hard journey to Bethlehem for a blessed event in this retelling of the Nativity story. This meticulously researched and visua… |
| Steel Sharks | Capt. Reza Lashgar | 1996-01-01 | In this undersea thriller, a United States submarine is seized by terrorists. But a rescue attempt by an elite group of Navy Seals goes wrong when the… |
| The Last Airbender | Uncle Iroh | 2010-06-30 | The story follows the adventures of Aang, a young successor to a long line of Avatars, who must put his childhood ways aside and stop the Fire Nation … |
| Papa Hemingway in Cuba | Evan Shipman | 2015-11-19 | In 1959, a young journalist ventures to Havana, Cuba to meet his idol, the legendary Ernest Hemingway who helped him find his literary voice, while th… |
| Setup | Roth | 2011-10-17 | A group of friends plan out a detailed heist that turns deadly when one betrays the other by taking off with the goods. Taking matters into his own ha… |
| War Dogs | Marlboro | 2016-08-17 | Based on the true story of two young men, David Packouz and Efraim Diveroli, who won a $300 million contract from the Pentagon to arm America’s allies… |
| Ghosts of War | Mr. Helwig | 2020-07-03 | A group of World War II American soldiers encounter a supernatural enemy as they occupy a French castle previously under Nazi control…. |
| The Kite Runner | Rahim Kahn | 2007-12-14 | After spending years in California, Amir returns to his homeland in Afghanistan to help his old friend Hassan, whose son is in trouble…. |
| Iron Man | Yinsen | 2008-04-30 | After being held captive in an Afghan cave, billionaire engineer Tony Stark creates a unique weaponized suit of armor to fight evil…. |
| D.R.E.A.M. Team | Prince Ali Saleed | 1999-09-25 | J.W. Garrison, the head of a top-secret sub agency of the United Nations, discovers that a team of terrorists, led by the murderous Oliver Maxwell, pl… |
| Suddenly | 1996-12-01 | Just as Mary is about to take a romantic vacation with her boyfriend, a terrible accident leaves her paralyzed. Bitter and devastated by her condition… | |
| Stigmata | Doctor | 1999-09-10 | A young woman with no strong religious beliefs, Frankie Paige begins having strange and violent experiences, showing signs of the wounds that Jesus re… |
| Broken Arrow | Max | 1996-02-09 | When rogue stealth-fighter pilot Vic Deakins deliberately drops off the radar while on maneuvers, the Air Force ends up with two stolen nuclear warhea… |
| Iron Man 3 | Ho Yinsen | 2013-04-18 | When Tony Stark’s world is torn apart by a formidable terrorist called the Mandarin, he starts an odyssey of rebuilding and retribution…. |
| Stretch | Nasseem | 2014-10-14 | A hard-luck limo driver struggling to go straight and pay off a debt to his bookie takes on a job with a crazed passenger whose sought-after ledger im… |
| Out of Time | Speechmaker | 1988-07-17 | A cop from the future goes back in time to Los Angeles and teams up with his grandfather to capture a master criminal…. |
| Executive Decision | Terrorist | 1996-03-15 | Terrorists hijack a 747 inbound to Washington D.C., demanding the release of their imprisoned leader. Intelligence expert David Grant (Kurt Russell) s… |
| Bad Boys | Store Clerk | 1995-04-07 | Marcus Burnett is a hen-pecked family man. Mike Lowry is a foot-loose and fancy free ladies’ man. Both are Miami policemen, and both have 72 hours to … |
| Hot Shots! Part Deux | Sleeping Guard | 1993-05-21 | Topper Harley is found to be working as an odd-job-man in a monastery. The CIA want him to lead a rescue mission into Iraq, to rescue the last rescue … |
| Crash | Farhad | 2005-05-06 | In post-Sept. 11 Los Angeles, tensions erupt when the lives of a Brentwood housewife, her district attorney husband, a Persian shopkeeper, two cops, a… |
| Live from Baghdad | Sadoun Al-Jenabi | 2002-12-07 | A group of CNN reporters wrestle with journalistic ethics and the life-and-death perils of reporting during the Gulf War.A Directors Guild Award-winni… |
| Unity | Self – Narrator (voice) | 2015-08-12 | Despite the advent of science, literature, technology, philosophy, religion, and so on — none of these has assuaged humankind from killing one anothe… |
| Charlie Wilson’s War | Hassan (uncredited) | 2007-12-19 | The true story of Texas congressman Charlie Wilson’s covert dealings in Afghanistan, where his efforts to assist rebels in their war with the Soviets … |
Shaun Toub Production Movies
| Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
| Forgive Me | Producer | 2019-10-25 | A forbidden love story in a forbidden place…. |
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