Fawad Siddiqui

Fawad Siddiqui

Fawad Siddiqui is an American actor, improvisational comedian, journalist and cartoonist. He has appeared on the USA Network television show Burn Notice alongside Bruce Campbell and Jeffrey Donovan, in the George Clooney film The Men Who Stare At Goats with Ewan McGregor, and in the indie films The Bait and Festival of Lights—starring Jimi Mistry and Aidan Quinn. He also had a role in Queen Latifah produced sequel The Cookout Part 2—starring Charlie Murphy, Mike Tyson and Faizon Love—and currently has a recurring role on the fifth season of the Lifetime Network series Army Wives. He also appeared in the latest season of the FX/The Audience Network series Damages—starring Glenn Close, Rose Byrne and John Goodman—as the shady Afghan information broker Shahbaz Gul opposite Dylan Baker, and in the French comedy Bienvenue à Bord—opposite popular French comedic actors Franck Dubosc and Valérie Lemercier, released in October 2011. He was featured in the upcoming 2013 indie drama Sunlight Jr., from critically acclaimed director Laurie Collyer, opposite Matt Dillon and Naomi Watts. He played the role of Mohammed Al Ghamdi in the second season of the Emmy Award-winning Showtime series Homeland, starring Claire Danes and Mandy Patinkin. In 2014, he appeared as Arash on the season 2 premier of USA's Graceland. In 2017, he appeared as a mosque Imam on 24: Legacy on Fox and as Dr. Ravi Govilla opposite Kyle Chandler on the Netflix original series Bloodline. He also completed filming as one of the main comedic villains, Leo, opposite comedian Paul Rodriguez in Rodriguez' upcoming 2018 comedy Chateau Vato (alternate title I Love Lupe). Siddiqui has also appeared in commercials for Home Depot, Capital One, Math Wizard, Danbury Hospital and others. He regularly performs with such South Florida improvisational troupes as Laughing Gas and ]]Impromedy]], with the Improv Playhouse in Libertyville, Illinois, and with the Steel City Improv Theater in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He is currently a co-director and performer with The Front Yard Theater Collective which produces a monthly variety show at the historic Olympia Theater in downtown Miami. Siddiqui is also a cartoonist, having created a new field of live illustration of improvised theater shows, which he does for improv theaters throughout the country.

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The Men Who Stare At Goats (2009)

IMDB: 6.2 (123976 votes)