Navid Negahban

Navid Negahban is an Iranian-American actor, who, for Disney, portrayed The Sultan in the 2019 live-action remake of Aladdin.
==Background==
Negahban has appeared in The Shield, The West Wing, Lost, and CSI: Miami. He has collaborated twice with Iranian-American actress Necar Zadegan, once in 24, where her on-screen husband ordered his interrogation and the torturing of his family, and also in CSI: Miami, where, as his wife, she killed him.
Negahban also had two collaborations with another Iranian-American actress Mozhan Marnò in the TV series The Unit 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. Negahban also appeared as the main antagonist in the critically acclaimed TV series Homeland. 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.
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 played the role of Syrian General Sarraj.
In 2018, he appeared in the second and third seasons of the FX series Legion as the real form of the Shadow King.
==Role==
Aladdin (2019) - Photography - Sultan.jpg|Aladdin(Aladdin;2019 live-action adaptation)
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Category:1960s births
Category:Aladdin
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