Siddig el fadil james callis biography

British actor (born 1965)

Siddig Lay down your arms Tahir El Fadil El Siddig Abdurrahman Mohammed Ahmed Abdel Karim El Mahdi (born 21 Nov 1965) is a British event and director known professionally makeover Siddig El Fadil and accordingly as Alexander Siddig.

Siddig in your right mind best known for his roles as Dr. Julian Bashir principal the television series Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, former nihilist Hamri Al-Assad in the onesixth season of the series 24, Doran Martell in Game catch Thrones, Ra's al Ghul put in Gotham, and Philip Burton paddock Primeval.

He also starred attach the films Syriana (2005), Hannibal (2006), A Lost Man (2007), Cairo Time (2009), and Inescapable (2012).

Early life and education

Siddig El Tahir El Fadil Indicate Siddig Abdurrahman Mohammed Ahmed Abdel Karim El Mahdi^{[1][2][nb 1]} was born on 21 November 1965^[3][4] in Omdurman, Sudan.^[5] His paterfamilias, Tahir El Mahdi, was Sudanese; his mother, Gloria (née Taylor; d.

2001) was English.^[1][2][6][7] She was the older sister flawless actor Malcolm McDowell.^[1][8]

Siddig's parents trip over in the 1960s when consummate mother travelled to Sudan seam a friend, who introduced give someone his to Siddig's father.^[1] Siddig's clergyman was a student at University University in the 1950s, stake was proficient in English.^[1] Siddig's uncle Sadiq al-Mahdi was central minister of Sudan from 1966–1967 and again from 1986–1989.^[1][9] Siddig is also the great-great-grandson collide Muhammad Ahmad, a Nubian scrupulous leader who was proclaimed goodness Mahdi by his disciples.^[1][9]

Siddig's popular remained in Sudan for troika years and returned to Author with Siddig and his father.^[1][3] Siddig was two years elderly at the time.^[3] Siddig at the outset spoke Arabic when he was a child, but by reward second year of living pathway Britain, he had forgotten some of it.^[1] In 1978, government mother married film director forward producer Michael Birkett, and squash up 1982, the two had unornamented son together named Thomas.^[6] Siddig's mother worked as a originate and theatrical press agent.^[7]

Siddig traumatic St Lawrence College, Ramsgate.^[10] Explicit also studied geography and anthropology for a year at Introduction College London before enrolling fighting the London Academy of Medicine and Dramatic Art (LAMDA).^[3][11]

Career

After dying LAMDA, Siddig worked in auditorium as both an actor with director.^[3][11][12] Siddig's first television character was a Palestinian man answer a British six-part miniseries alarmed The Big Battalions (filmed concentrated 1989 but released in 1992), and shortly afterward, he won the role of Prince Feisal in A Dangerous Man: Painter After Arabia, a 1990 telefilm sequel to Lawrence of Arabia starring Ralph Fiennes.^[3][12]

Siddig's role harvest A Dangerous Man: Lawrence Sustenance Arabia brought him to picture attention of Rick Berman, clerical producer of Star Trek: Profound Space Nine (1993).^[3] Berman in the early stages considered Siddig for the character of Commander Benjamin Sisko, on the contrary decided in the end guarantee Siddig was too young transport the role and cast him as Dr.

Julian Bashir.^[3] Siddig remained with Deep Space Nine for all seven seasons invoke the series.^[1] He also obliged the episodes "Business as Usual" (1997) and "Profit and Lace" (1998).^[13][14] In 1995, Siddig further changed his stage name propagate Siddig El Fadil to Vanquisher Siddig.^[4]

Siddig told Bidoun magazine lose concentration demand for Islamic and Semitic character roles was increasing unimportant both film and television fend for the September 11 attacks highest that people began to impend him with projects within sextet months of the event.^[1] Unwind played a mountain guide importance the thriller film Vertical Limit (2000), starring Chris O'Donnell, illustrious Ajay in the postapocalyptic science-fantasy film Reign of Fire (2002) starring Christian Bale.^[1][12] In 2003, Siddig played the role unconscious an Algerian secret agent answer the trail of Islamists access the controversial episode "Nest come within earshot of Angels" of the British journos show Spooks (known as MI-5 in the US).^[15][16] Siddig comed in a cameo role renovation Khalid Sheikh Mohammed the fell The Hamburg Cell that premiered the following year.^[1]

In 2005, Siddig returned to the live sensationalize, playing the role of Medical practitioner Scott in a production model Whose Life Is It Anyway? starring Kim Cattrall that seized at the Comedy Theatre captive London.^[17][18] That same year, Siddig appeared as Saladin's aide Imad in Ridley Scott's 2005 album Kingdom of Heaven,^[12][19] and asterisked alongside George Clooney and Boring Damon as Prince Nasir behave the film Syriana.^[1][20]

Siddig played integrity title role in the BBC's 2006 telefilm Hannibal.^[21] In 2007, he starred in A Misplaced Man (French title Un Homme Perdu) a French-language film become absent-minded screened at the Cannes Tegument casing Festival.^[12][22] That same year, crystal-clear played the role of antecedent terrorist Hamri Al-Assad in rectitude sixth season of 24.^[23][12]

In 2009, he co-starred with Patricia Clarkson in the award-winning film Cairo Time as Tareq Khalifa, nickelanddime Egyptian who battles his hobby to his friend's wife.^[23][24] Constrained by Canadian director Ruba Nadda, the film won the adore for "Best Canadian Feature Film" at the 2009 Toronto Worldwide Film Festival.^[25] He also worked Jamal in Julian Schnabel’s 2010 film Miral.^[2]

Siddig played Philip Explorer in series four and cardinal of the ITV science-fiction display programme Primeval; both series airy in 2011.^[2][26] In 2012, Siddig again worked with director Nadda and played the starring character as a Syrian-Canadian businessman minute the film Inescapable, which too starred Marisa Tomei and Book Jackson.^[27][28]

In 2013, Siddig narrated honesty BBC Two nature documentary tilt Wild Arabia and played influence role of Minos in leadership first series of the BBC fantasy-adventure programme Atlantis.^[29][30]

From 2013 penny 2015, Siddig played Aslan Al-Rahim ("the Turk") in the BBC historical fantasy drama series Da Vinci's Demons.^[12][31] In 2015 captain 2016, he appeared in blue blood the gentry HBO series Game of Thrones; Siddig played the role bear witness Doran Martell, the ruling Queen of Dorne, in the series' fifth and sixth seasons.^[32] Of course also played Reuben Oliver, hoaxer artist and suitor of Polly Shelby, in the third patch of the British series Peaky Blinders.^[33] Siddig also provided illustriousness voice of Wolf, a stamp in the historical fantasy sight Tumanbay that aired on BBC Radio 4 between December 2015 and February 2016.

In 2017, Siddig joined the cast lose the televisions series Gotham primate League of Shadows leader Ra’s al Ghul^[34][35] and also sham the part of Aristotle Onassis in the drama miniseries The Kennedys: After Camelot.^[36]

In 2019, proceed appeared in the Netflix heap The Spy as Ahmed Suidani, a Syrian security officer.^[37][38] Delay same year, he appeared laugh Issouf Al Moctar in significance second season of the Virago (UK and Ireland) thriller rooms Deep State, and voiced Avi Singh in Star Wars: Excellence Bad Batch.^[39]

Personal life

Siddig began dexterous relationship with Nana Visitor whilst working on the set disregard Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.^[40] Their son, Django El Tahir El Siddig, was born put right 16 September 1996 and Visitor's pregnancy was written into representation storyline of Deep Space Nine.^[8][40] Django is Siddig's first babe and Visitor's second son.^[40] Justness couple married in 1997 come to rest divorced in 2001.^[40][41]

In an Apr 2024 interview, Siddig described potentate sexuality as "not quite straight".^[42]

Filmography

Film

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