Age: 60
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Omid Djalili is a British stand-up comedian, actor, television producer and writer. Djalili was born on 30 September 1965 in St Mary Abbots Hospital in Kensington, London, to Iranian Baháʼí parents Ahmad and Parvaneh Djalili. His parents emigrated from Tehran to London in 1958. He has a brother and sister. His mother was a dressmaker who at one point assisted Iranian singer Googoosh. His father was a liaison officer at the Iranian embassy in which he would provide medical assistance. He was also a photographer whose pictures ended up in the newspaper Kayhan. He attended Holland Park School where he failed A-level exams a record six times and faked his results to gain entry to Ulster University in Coleraine, Northern Ireland, studying English and theatre studies having been turned down by 16 drama schools. Djalili cited Jack Lemmon, Dustin Hoffman, Meryl Streep, Robert De Niro, Christopher Walken and Julia Roberts as influences. The first significant success of his stand-up comedy career was at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 1995 with "Short, Fat Kebab Shop Owner's Son", followed by "The Arab and the Jew" with Jewish comedian Ivor Dembina in 1996. Djalili has appeared in a number of films, most notably Gladiator, The Mummy, Mean Machine, The World Is Not Enough, Alien Autopsy, Spy Game, Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow, Grow Your Own, Notting Hill, Mr Nice, Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End, Sex and the City 2 and provides his voice in Over the Hedge. He has observed that he usually appears as a generic Middle Eastern background character in many of these films, often commenting that he appears in the James Bond film as the "Second Azerbaijani oil pipe attendant". He appeared as Nasim in 22 episodes of the U.S. sitcom Whoopi, starring Whoopi Goldberg, and picked up an international film award for Best Supporting Actor in Casanova, starring alongside Heath Ledger and Jeremy Irons. Djalili has won awards for his comedy. These include the EMMA Award, Time Out Award, and LWT Comedy Award for Best Stand-up Comedian, Spirit of the Fringe Award as well as the One World Media Award for his Channel 4 documentary, Bloody Foreigners. He has also been nominated for awards, such as the Perrier Award for Best Comedian, the Gemini Award for Best Comedy Performance of 2003, the South Bank Award for Best Comedy of 2003, the Royal Television Society Award for Best Stand-up, and the European TV Award for his Bloody Foreigners.
Omid Djalili
Mohammed Harran
for Mohammed Harran in Echidna and Offspring: The Shadow covering the Land of Sunshine
Suggested by jeanpaulvalley
A year after having prevented the Rägnarok from destroying the Earth and the various worlds connected to the Nordic Pantheon, Echidna and her offspring are more than ever seen as heroes throughout this world which is called to change. However, the peace is only relative, because the particular family receives the visit of Anubis, the God of the Dead for the Egyptians, who warns them of the coming of a catastrophic threat against which his lord, Ra, God of the sun of this pantheon, fight. Apophis, the gigantic snake wanting to destroy the World, gains ground against the Falcon God and Anubis humbly asks for help from the family of "monsters", against the advice of his family. However, once in Egypt, our heroes realize two important things. First, the monster is controlled by Seth, the god of evil of the Egyptians, who wants to take the place of Ra, his own father. And, above all, Apophis is actually Typhon, the father of the children of Echidna, who was brainwashed by Seth ! Faced with this horrible discovery, our heroes will do everything to save this world... while also hoping to be able to save their father, whose absence in their lives has weighed heavily on them for millennia, especially for the youngest, Echidnaness, who never known him...
