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Personal Info

Gender

Male

Birthday

1979-07-12 (45 years old)

Place of Birth

Tehran, Iran

Omid Abtahi

Biography:

Omid Abtahi (Persian: امید ابطحی; born July 12, 1979) is an Iranian-born American actor. He is best known for his roles as Salim in Starz Original American Gods, Penn Pershing in The Mandalorian on Disney+, Saleem Ulman in NCIS on Paramount+, and Homes in the fourth installment of The Hunger Games film series, The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2. He is also known for his performances as Justin Yates in Ghost Whisperer on CBS and Detective Jerry Molbeck in the American TV adaptation of Those Who Kill on A&E.

Known For

Acting

2023

City on Fire as Det. Ali Parsa
Marvel's Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur as Additional Voices (voice)

2022

Kung Fu Panda: The Dragon Knight as Alfie / Knight (voice)

2021

2020

2019

The Mandalorian as Dr. Penn Pershing
Love, Death & Robots as Wes (voice)
The Boys as Sameer Shah

2017

Window Horses as Ramin
DuckTales as D'jinn (voice)
American Gods as Salim

2016

Damien as Amani Golkar

2015

We Bare Bears as Additional Voices (voice)
Better Call Saul as Detective Abbasi

2014

Boys of Abu Ghraib as Ghazi Hammoud
Legends as Bashir Al-Kanazer
State of Affairs as Rayst Kamal

2012

Argo as Reza Borhani
Revolution as Captain Riley

2011

Hide as Neil
Homeland as Raqim Faisel
Shameless as Sameer

2010

Space Chimps 2: Zartog Strikes Back as Dr. Jagu / Reporter #2 (voice)
Hawaii Five-0 as Naser Salaam

2009

Brothers as Yusuf
Diplomacy as American Interpreter
Castle as Rasheed Waqas
FlashForward as Ed Fiore
NCIS: Los Angeles as Ari Sayed
Archer as (voice)
The Good Wife as Samir

2008

Space Chimps as Dr. Jagu (voice)
Ocean of Pearls as Amrit Singh
Fringe as Simon Philips
The Mentalist as Markham Shankar
Star Wars: The Clone Wars as Cadet Amis (voice)
Star Wars: The Clone Wars as Amis / Mandalorian Super Commando (voice)
My Own Worst Enemy as Tony Nazari

2006

Running with Scissors as Restaurant Manager

2005

Ghost Whisperer as Justin Yates
Over There as Pfc. Tariq Nassiri
Sleeper Cell as Salim
Bones as Hal Shirazi

2003

NCIS as Saleem Ulman

2000

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation as Chandru 'Dru' Kambhatla

1999

Family Guy as Mahmoud (voice)
Family Guy as Faisal (voice)