Background
Negahban was born in Mashhad, Iran.
Negahban was born in Mashhad, Iran.
He has appeared on 24 and is a regular on Homeland. He took a liking to theater when he was 8 years old while provoking laughter from a large audience by portraying an old man on stage. He left Iran when he was 20 for Turkey and then Germany, where he spent eight-and-a-half years.
In Germany, he worked for a theater company, and then in 1993 he moved to the United States.
He is fluent in English, Persian, Dari and German. He has appeared in The Shield, The West Wing, Lost, and Computer Society of India: Miami.
Negahban also had two collaborations with another Iranian-American actress Mozhan Marnò in the television series The Unit and the movie The Stoning of Soraya M., where he plays the husband of Soraya (Marnò). In 2008, Negahban voiced the insane doctor Challus Mercer in the survival horror game Dead Space.
Negahban also appeared as the main antagonist in the critically acclaimed television series Homeland.
In February 2015, The Hollywood Reporter and Variety confirmed that Negahban had begun shooting the spy thriller, Damascus Cover, based on the novel by Howard Kaplan, alongside Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Olivia Thirlby and John Hurt. Negahban will play the role of Syrian General Sarraj.
