Navid Negahban was born in Mashhad, Iran. He took a liking to the theater when he was eight years old, while provoking laughter from a large audience by portraying an old man on stage.[1]
He left Iran in 1985 when he was 17 for Turkey and then Germany, where he spent eight years.[2] In Germany, he worked for a theater company, and then in 1993 he moved to the United States.[2]
Negahban also had two collaborations with another Iranian-American actress, Mozhan Marnò, in the TV series The Unit[5] and the movie The Stoning of Soraya M., where he plays the husband of Soraya (Marnò). In 2008, Negahban voiced and provided his likeness to the character Dr. Challus Mercer in the survival horror game Dead Space.[3] Negahban also appeared as terrorist mastermind Abu Nazir in the critically acclaimed TV series Homeland.[1]
In 2011 he won the Best Actor Award for the 2009 Iranian short film, Liberation at the Noor Iranian Film Festival, and in 2012, he returned to serve as an official festival judge.[citation needed]
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