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Personal Info

Gender

Male

Birthday

1966-05-30 (58 years old)

Place of Birth

Kabul, Afghanistan

Fahim Fazli

Biography:

We are all born with the ability to dream. Somehow between childhood and adulthood people lose that ability. Fahim Fazli is "A man of two worlds" Afghanistan, the country of his birth, and the United States, the nation he adopted and learned to love. Fahim is also a man who escaped oppression, found his dream profession, and then Played it all forward by returning to Afghanistan as an interpreter with the U.S. Marines from 2009-2010. He came to the United States as a refugee in his teens. He enjoyed a privileged childhood until the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan. As a young adult he supported the resistance and when he and his remaining family saw the opportunity they fled to Pakistan and then eventually to the United States. He moved to California with dreams of an acting career. Fahim wrote a memoir, Fahim Speaks, that was released in early 2012. "Fahim Speaks" received the 1st place for a biography from the Military Writers Society of America.

- IMDb Mini Biography

Known For

Acting

2025

Rule Breakers as Taliban Commander

2024

2023

The Mother as Afghan Hammam (uncredited)
Kandahar as Taliban commander
The Point Men as Taliban Leader
OMG 2 as Kahan Baba
Shahmaran as Jawan Marad

2022

2020

The Outpost as Taliban Fighter

2019

Fahim as Jamil Kahn

2018

12 Strong as Commander Khaled

2015

Rock the Kasbah as Tariq Khan

2014

American Sniper as Messianic Tribal Leader

2013

Mirage at Zabul Province as Taliban Insurgent

2012

Argo as Komiteh Subordinate

2010

Outsourced as Inmate

2009

Hired Gun as Abdul-Aziz
Red Sands as Goat Herder
NCIS: Los Angeles as Iranian Guard

2008

Iron Man as Omar
Eagle Eye as Al Kohei

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