[Monday 18th April’16]: Pakistani-American Hollywood actor Faran Tahir has been officially cast for a recurring role in Fox’s upcoming miniseries of their successful television drama Prison Break. He will be joining returning cast members Wentworth Miller, Dominic Purcell and Sarah Wayne Callies among others.
Prison Break Season 5 is set to begin filming this month across Morocco and Vancouver, and fans are waiting in anticipation for the upcoming Fox revival. Prison Break followed the story of brilliant structural engineer Michael Scofield (Wentworth Miller) whose brother Lincoln Burrows (Dominic Purcell) is accused of murdering the brother of Vice President of the United States. After being sentenced to death, Lincoln awaits his execution but Michael who is convinced of his innocence, formulates an escape plan to break into the prison and rescue his brother. The upcoming limited series of Prison Break is a sequel to the original series, taking place several years later and is expected to air in September 2016.
Sharing the reason behind choosing to go ahead with the role, Faran explains, “I like the inner conflict of the character”. The name of Faran’s character is Jamil and further details about the role will be revealed soon.
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About Faran Tahir
Faran Tahir (born February 16, 1964) is a Pakistani-American film and television actor. Tahir is best known for his act as Raza, the leader of a terrorist organization, “The Ten Rings” in Iron Man (2008). In 1985, he appeared as Bolshintsov in U.C. Berkeley’s production of A Month in the Country. He graduated from the University of California, Berkeley, with a BA in Theatre before acquiring a graduate degree from the American Repertory Theater’s (A.R.T.) Institute for Advanced Theater Training at Harvard University.
He made his film debut playing Nathoo in the Disney’s 1994 live-action version of Rudyard Kipling’s The Jungle Book. He has since appeared in such films as Picture Perfect (1997), Anywhere But Here (1999) and Charlie Wilson’s War (2007). He also played the male lead in the 1999 independent film ABCD. In 2008, Tahir played the role of the villain Raza in the Marvel Comics-based Iron Man. He played Starfleet Captain Richard Robau in the 2009 film Star Trek. In 2013, Tahir played President Patel in the science-fiction film Elysium.
Tahir has guest starred on many television series, including Alias, The Practice, Family Law, The Agency, NYPD Blue, Lost, 7th Heaven, The West Wing, Walker, Texas Ranger, The D.A., 24, Monk, Justice, Cold Case, Chuck and Warehouse 13. He also co-starred with Robert Beltran and Chase Masterson in the 2005 Sci-Fi Channel original movie Manticore. He also starred in the medical drama series Grey’s Anatomy as Isaac and appeared on the CW series Supernatural as the Egyptian god Osiris in the seventh season’s episode “Defending Your Life”. He appeared a Ruslan Denisov in The Blacklist Season 2 Episode 11, as Detective Terrence Amos in How To Get Away With Murder Season 1 Episode 10 and as Dr. Alan Kobrine in Backstrom Season 1, Episode 9. He is also played Frank, Cliff Barnes’ right-hand man in the reboot of Dallas. Tahir starred in the ghost horror film Jinn.
He appeared in JAG in the episodes “Ice Queen” and “Meltdown” which served as the two pilot episodes for the series NCIS. Seven years later, Tahir appeared in the spin-off NCIS: Los Angeles.
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