Omid Djalili is a British-Iranian stand-up comedian, actor, television producer, presenter, voice actor and writer. He appeared as Nasim in 22 episodes of the U.S. sitcom Whoopi. In 2019 he appeared in an acclaimed performance of Fiddler on the Roof at the Chichester Festival Theatre. In 2020 he began hosting the ITV game show Pullman’s Dark Materials.
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Omid Djalili is a British-Iranian stand-up comedian, actor, television producer, presenter, voice actor and writer. He is bilingual in English and Persian. He 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 appeared as Nasim in 22 episodes of the U.S. sitcom Whoopi. In 2009, he became the voice of Yusuf Amir in the popular gaming series Grand Theft Auto. In 2019 he appeared in an acclaimed performance of Fiddler on the Roof at the Chichester Festival Theatre.
In 2020 he began hosting the ITV game show Pullman’s Dark Materials. He also appeared on the Graham Norton Show on 17 February 2012 alongside Daniel Radcliffe, Graham Norton and Daniel Cuba. In June 2010, he performed in a Meltdown Festival given by the Philharmonia Orchestra at London’s Queen Elizabeth Hall, performing the words of Omar Khayyám. In February 2012, he also appeared as the narrator in the BBC Learning project Off By Heart Shakespeare. He played Lord Capulet from Romeo and Juliet and delivered the speech ‘Hang thee, young baggage, disobedient wretch!’
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