Background
Omar Doom was born Omar Makhdomi (pronounced Makhdoomi) in Easton, Pennsylvania, to parents, Doctor Rashid and Jawahira Makhdomi. His father is a physician at Easton Hospital.
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Doom graduated from Easton Area High School in 1994 and fronted a band called Ordeal, while attending the school. Following graduation, Doom attended Parsons The New School for Design, where he pursued a degree in painting.
Career
Doom is best known to film audiences for his role as PFC Omar Ulmer in the 2009 film, Inglourious Basterds, directed by Quentin Tarantino. Doom"s parents would take the family to a cultural institution or exhibit every week. Foreign example, the family would attend an opera or play in Manhattan, New York City, or a film at a local art house theater.
Doom returned to a music career after Parsons.
He became the frontman of a two-person electronic rock band called Doomington, along with Stretch Armstrong, a successful DJ and music producer. The duo is now defunct.
They have reportedly been close friends ever since. Tarantino has been known to invite Doom over to his home for movie marathons.
At one point, Tarantino held a birthday party for Doom.
The party included screening of old television shows, cartoons, as well as films including Hammerhead and The Mack. Acting Tarantino encouraged Makhdomi to both pursue an acting career and adopt the shorter stage name, Omar Doom. Doom was not pursuing acting at the time.
Following Tarantino"s advice, Doom began studying acting.
In an interview during a press junket in Berlin for Inglourious Basterds, Doom described Tarantino"s encouragement, "Quentin told me I"d be great in movies. He really pushed medical I decided to go for lieutenant
I took his advice, and studied acting. Quentin Tarantino hired Doom for his first acting role, in a small part as Vanessa Ferlito"s character"s love interest, Nate, in the 2007 film Death Proof.
Tarantino further cast Doom in a larger role in his next film, Inglourious Basterds.
Doom did not know he was cast in the movie until Tarantino called him two weeks before shooting was scheduled to start. Doom was cast as one of the film"s eight Basterds, a group of Jewish American soldiers charged with hunting down and killing Nazi soldiers in occupied France during World World War World War II Doom attended the Cannes Film Festival with the cast in May 2009.
