Omid Djalili
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Omid Djalili was born and raised in London, England, to Iranian Baha'i parents, on 30 Sept 1965, and is a Baha'i stand-up comedian and actor.
Omid attended Holland Park Comprehensive High School in Kensington, London, and the University of Ulster in Northern Ireland, where he studied English Literature and Drama. After the fall of the communist Iron Curtain, he pioneered to Czechoslovakia, and was on its National Spiritual Assembly.
As a Comedian[edit]
Omid Djalili established a name for himself when, at the Edinburgh Festival, he performed a one-man stand-up comedy routine entitled, "Short, Fat, Kebab-Shop Owner's Son", which was sought out by journalists and others. This led to other television appearances, on shows such as, "Have I Got News For You?". In November 2007 he starred in his own "Omid Djalili" sketch-comedy show on BBC1 on Saturday nights in the United Kingdom. This ran for two series. In the United States, he was known for two seasons as the ethnic handyman Nasim on Whoopi Goldberg's TV sitcom "Whoopi". He was a leading character in the T.V. comedy drama, "Grow Your Own".
In Film[edit]
His big Hollywood movie break was in 1999's The Mummy. Then followed Gladiator, Spy Game, Mean Machine, Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow, Modigliani, Alien Autopsy and Casanova.
