Alexander Siddig Alexander Siddig is an actor best known for his portrayal of Doctor Julian Bashir on . He also appeared as Dr . Bashir in the sixth season episode in . He goes by the nickname of " Sid " . Biography . Alexander Siddig was born Siddig El Tahir El Fadil El Siddig Abderahman Mohammed Ahmed Mohammed Abdel Karim El Mahdi in Sudan , in Northern Africa , but spent most of his life in Britain where he attended the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts ( LAMDA ) . His uncle on his mother ' s side is actor Malcolm McDowell ; another uncle , on his father ' s side , was twice the prime minister of Sudan . Siddig attended the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts ( LAMDA ) to study acting and theater ; after leaving LAMDA he did a stage season in Manchester and worked as a director at a small London theater . When he began acting , he adopted a shortened version of his name , Siddig El Fadil . He then changed his acting credit to Alexander Siddig at the start of the fourth season of " Deep Space Nine " . According to Siddig , " " My name was a little confusing to people . And not just the audience . Casting directors are much more incapable of remembering one ' s name than the audience . And producers can be handicapped in that too . The other name said too much about what I wasn ' t . Siddig El Fadil is an important name . It is " my " name , officially , on my passport and all that , and one that I will keep . But for an actor it wasn ' t so suitable . So I started again , with half and half , which is more reflective of my character . As for Alexander , that was just a name out of a hat " " . ( " " , p . 257 ) His directorial credit remained as El Fadil for one " DS9 " episode he directed : . A union between Siddig and his " Deep Space Nine " co - star Nana Visitor produced a son , Django El Tahir El Siddig . Visitor ' s pregnancy was covered up on - screen by having the unborn child of the married Keiko O ' Brien ( played by Rosalind Chao ) transplanted to the womb of Visitor ' s character , the unmarried Kira Nerys . Django was born on 16 September 1996 , during production on the " DS9 " episode . Siddig and Visitor were married on 14 June 1997 . The two divorced in 2001 , two years after " Deep Space Nine " wrapped production . In 2005 , Siddig was briefly romantically linked in the press with actress Kim Cattrall , herself a " Star Trek " alumna , having played Valeris in . Career . Television . In 1979 , Siddig had an uncredited non - speaking role as Tutankhamun in the BBC children ' s show " Extraordinary " , which was a produced by a friend of his parents . Siddig first appeared to television audiences as Prince Feisal in the 1990 made - for - TV sequel to " Lawrence of Arabia " entitled " A Dangerous Man : Lawrence After Arabia " . When auditions came for " Star Trek : Deep Space Nine " in , Siddig was originally considered for the role of Benjamin Sisko , but was reportedly deemed too young for the role . Michael Piller commented : " " Rick [ Berman ] discovered Siddig on a PBS show , " A Dangerous Man " , a prequel to " Lawrence of Arabia " , in which he played King Farouk , and was very good . We ' d been looking for Sisko from here to eternity and we told our people in Europe to find this fellow . We brought him in and we looked at him and he just jumped off the screen . There wasn ' t another doctor candidate . He was just delightful . We had not met Avery Brooks at that point and we asked ourselves , could Siddig possibly be Sisko ? And we found out he was twenty - five years old , and that was too young " " . ( " Captains ' Logs Supplemental - The Unauthorized Guide to the New Trek Voyages " , p 21 ) In 2009 , Siddig gave an interview in which he remarked that he is mainly recognized for his role on " Deep Space Nine " and that he once had to wait for three hours in an airport for the FBI to arrive , just so they could have his autograph . Siddig continues to perform for television on both sides of the Atlantic . In 2003 he guest starred in an episode of the popular BBC spy drama series " Spooks " ( screened as " MI5 " in the United States ) and in 2004 appeared in the TV movie " The Hamburg Cell " . In 2005 , he appeared in a major role in an episode of the British detective series " Agatha Christie ' s Poirot " entitled " Cards on the Table " . In 2006 he starred in the BBC television movie " Hannibal " , playing the title character ( opposite Ben Cross ) . Also in 2006 , he lent his voice to the " Patriot Games " episode of " Family Guy " , an animated series created by " Trek " fan Seth MacFarlane . He again voiced two characters in a 2009 episode of " Family Guy " . In 2007 , Siddig appeared as former terrorist Hamri Al - Assad in the sixth season of the hit FOX TV series " 24 " . Other " Trek " actors to appear that season include Michael Reilly Burke , James Cromwell , Roger Cross , Gregory Itzin , Glenn Morshower , Natalia Nogulich , Raphael Sbarge , and Maury Sterling . He also played a villain in an episode of the BBC series " Merlin " in 2008 with , which was broadcast on NBC in 2009 . In September 2009 , Siddig appeared in the BBC forensic crime drama " Waking the Dead " as Dr . Mohammed , a psychiatrist at a high security psychiatric hospital who is hiding a dark secret . In April 2010 , it was announced that Siddig had joined the cast of the British science fiction series " Primeval " for series 4 and 5 , airing in 2011 . On this show , he played Phillip Burton , a charismatic scientist and technology tycoon who is a private contractor put in charge of running the Government ' s " Anomaly Research Centre " but is secretly using the technology developed for his own purposes . In 2010 , he also appeared in two episodes of " Strike Back " . In 2012 , he made guest appearances in the TV series " True Love " and " Falcón " . From 2013 through 2015 , Siddig played the recurring role of Al - Rahim throughout the run of the BBC / Starz fantasy - adventure drama " Da Vinci ' s Demons " . In 2013 , he portrayed King Minos on the BBC series " Atlantis " , which aired in the U . K . and Canada and premiered on BBC America in November . He voiced Isaac Newton in an episode of " Cosmos : A Spacetime Odyssey " and was narrator in the TV movie " Egyptian Vice " . In 2015 he appeared in the mini - series " Tut " , starring Ben Kingsley . In 2015 and 2016 , he played Prince Doran Martell in the fifth and sixth seasons of " Game of Thrones " . He was also interviewed for the " GoT " fifth season specials " New Characters / New Locations " and " Anatomy of an Episode : Mother ' s Mercy " . In 2016 , he also appeared in the TV movie " Recon " , several episodes of " Peaky Blinders " ( with Tom Hardy ) and in 2017 appeared in " The Kennedys After Camelot " as Aristotle Onassis ( with Jonathan Whittaker ) . Since 2017 , he has portrayed the recurring role of Ra ' s al Ghul in the FOX series " Gotham " , with episodes featuring John Doman and Dakin Matthews . Films . In 1987 , Siddig had a small role in the movie " Sammy and Rosie Get Laid " . In 1998 , he also voiced several roles in the " Tiantic " - tie in video game " Titanic Explorer " ( alongside Olivia d ' Abo , Michael Gough , and Michael Ensign ) . Siddig has worked extensively in major motion pictures since production on " Deep Space Nine " came to an end in . In 2000 , he appeared as an ill - fated mountain climber in " Vertical Limit " . Two years later , he had a role in the fantasy action film " Reign of Fire " , alongside " Trek " guest star Alice Krige . ( Though the two did not share any scenes together . ) Siddig co - starred in two major feature films in 2005 : Ridley Scott ' s epic " Kingdom of Heaven " and Stephen Gaghan ' s highly - acclaimed " Syriana " . His performance as reformist Arabian Prince Nasir Al - Subaai in the latter film garnered Siddig much praise and even early talks of a possible Academy Award nomination . " Syriana " also featured fellow " Trek " performers Christopher Plummer , Robert Foxworth , and David Clennon . In 2006 , Siddig appeared as the angel Gabriel in the Biblical drama " The Nativity Story " ( with Shohreh Aghdashloo ) . He followed this with roles in the 2007 war epic " The Last Legion " , set during the last days of the Roman Empire , and the 2007 French drama , " Un Homme Perdu ( A Lost Man ) " . He then played Prime Minister John Hatcher in the 2008 futuristic action thriller " Doomsday , " co - starring with his uncle , Malcolm McDowell , and appeared in the short movie " The Boundary " . Siddig appeared in another French movie , " Espion ( s ) " , and starred in a 2009 film entitled " Cairo Time " , which shot on location in Cairo , Egypt . In the film , Siddig played a retired Egyptian police officer sent to pick up his friend ' s wife , only to begin an affair with her . The following year , Siddig was seen in the blockbuster action / fantasy film " Clash of the Titans " , in which he appeared as Hermes / Mercury , and in " 4 . 3 . 2 . 1 " , an independent film that was written , produced and co - directed by actor Noel Clarke . Siddig also co - starred in director ' s 2010 drama " Miral " , acting out the father of the title character , a young woman who witnessed Hind Husseini ' s efforts to establish an orphanage in 1948 Jerusalem . In 2012 and 2013 , Siddig was the star on the Canadian thriller " Inescapable " ( with Saad Siddiqui ) and appeared in the comic drama " May in the Summer " . He could then be seen in " The Fifth Estate " , a dramatic thriller about founder , played in the film by " Star Trek Into Darkness " actor Benedict Cumberbatch . In 2016 , he played characters in " City of Tiny Lights " and the short movie " Baby Mine " and in 2017 co - starred in " Submergence " . Other works . On stage , Siddig appeared with Kim Cattrall in a production of the play " Whose Life Is It Anyway " in 2005 . It was as a result of this pairing that Siddig and Cattrall , both alumni of the LAMDA , began dating soon afterwards . In 2014 , he played Saladin in the London - based play " Holy Warriors " . Between 2008 and 2012 , Siddig lent his voice to four " Doctor Who " audio dramas , making him one of few people to be involved in both " Star Trek " and " Doctor Who " productions . In one of those dramas the Doctor was voiced by Colin Baker ( the Sixth Doctor ) , who had a character named after him in an okudagram and later appeared in " Star Trek Continues " . In 2015 , he voiced the character Wolf in the radio drama " Tumanbay " .