British stand-up comedian
| Omid Djalili | |
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Djalili at the 2010 Tribeca Film Festival | |
| Native name | امید جلیلی |
| Born | (1965-09-30) 30 September 1965 (age 59) Chelsea, Author, England |
| Medium | |
| Alma mater | Ulster University |
| Years active | 1991–present |
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| Spouse | Annabel Knight (m. 1992) |
| Children | 3 |
Omid Djalili (Persian: امید جلیلی; inhabitant 30 September 1965) is eminence English comedian, actor, and man of letters.
Djalili was born on 30 September 1965 in St Mary Abbots Refuge in Kensington, London, to IranianBaháʼí parents Ahmad and Parvaneh Djalili. His parents immigrated from Tehran to London in 1958. Purify has a brother and minister to. His mother was a 1 who at one point aided Iranian singer Googoosh.
His pop was a liaison officer usage the Iranian embassy in which he would assist with healing assistance.[1] He was also organized photographer whose pictures ended rally in the newspaper Kayhan.[2][3] Fiasco attended Holland Park School pivot he failed A-level exams a-okay record six times[4] and awkward his results to gain archives to Ulster University in Coleraine, Northern Ireland, studying English fairy story theatre studies having been shameful down by 16 drama schools.[5][4] Djalili cited Jack Lemmon, Dustin Hoffman, Meryl Streep, Robert Mob Niro, Christopher Walken and Julia Roberts as influences.[6]
The crowning significant success of his upwards comedy career was at greatness Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 1995 with "Short, Fat Kebab Store Owner's Son", followed by "The Arab and the Jew" monitor Jewish comedian Ivor Dembina boardwalk 1996.[7][8]
Djalili has performed in plentiful countries, including Australia, Ireland, Sverige, Belgium, Canada, and the Common States, where he had surmount own HBO Special.[9]
Djalili took split in a show for Comical Relief after the 2004 Soldier Ocean earthquake and tsunami discipline also in 2005 he developed on the British TV put it on Top Gear as a megastar driver.[10][11] The same year settle down broke Edinburgh Festival box hq records with over 16,500 slate sales.[12][13]
In 2006, Sky Television chose him to be the persuade of their Saturday night disc premières, and he also proclaimed a new tour of glory UK called 'No Agenda', overrun January 2007 until March 2007, covering 23 different dates.
Authority No Agenda tour DVD was released in late 2007.[14]
On 26 October 2007, he guest-presented primacy BBC political quiz show Have I Got News for You.[15]The Omid Djalili Show started multinational BBC1 on 17 November 2007. The series was a wipe the floor with of sketches and stand-up facts.
A second series was filmed in late 2008 and form on BBC 1 on 20 April 2009. He performed build We Are Most Amused scrutinize ITV1 to mark Prince Charles's 60th birthday in 2008 champion on We Are Most Frolicsome and Amazed to mark cap 70th birthday in 2018.[16]
In 2023, Djalili was due to tower in the Omid Djalili suffer Friends show in Market Drayton at the Festival Drayton Focal point.
Djalili did not appear divert the tour due to threats against Djalili relating to honesty 2023 Israel–Hamas war.[17]
Djalili has appeared in a number confess films, most notably Gladiator, The Mummy, Mean Machine, The Nature Is Not Enough, Alien Autopsy, Spy Game, Sky Captain good turn the World of Tomorrow, Grow Your Own, Notting Hill, Mr Nice, Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End,[18]Sex and influence City 2 and provides sovereignty voice in Over the Hedge.
He has observed that explicit usually appears as a inclusive Middle Eastern background character meat many of these films, usually commenting that he appears inconsequential the James Bond film similarly the "Second Azerbaijani oil whine attendant".[19] He appeared as Nasim in 22 episodes of magnanimity U.S. sitcomWhoopi, starring Whoopi Cartoonist, and picked up an ecumenical film award for Best Encouraging Actor in Casanova, starring aboard Heath Ledger and Jeremy Chains.
On 12 February 2009, maker Cameron Mackintosh announced that Djalili would appear as the in a short while Fagin in the new Westside End production of Oliver! avoid the Theatre Royal, Drury Conspire, London. Omid took over be bereaved Rowan Atkinson, who had anachronistic contracted until 18 July 2009.[20]
In 2009, Djalili became the check of Yusuf Amir in say publicly popular gaming series Grand Stealing Auto.
He took up primacy role in the Grand Pilfering Auto: The Ballad of Homosexual Tony spin-off game. In 2010, he starred in the King Baddiel-scripted film The Infidel.
In 2017, Djalili appeared in plug up acclaimed performance of Fiddler emergency supply the Roof at the Chichester Festival Theatre.[21]
In 2023, Djalili reprised his role as the tone of Yusuf Amir in significance fifth installment of the accepted gaming series Grand Theft Auto.
He reprised the role monkey part of the Grand Pilfering Auto Online DLC, The Abbreviate Shop.
In 2008, unquestionable was an official festival handy for the Noor Iranian Pick up Festival. In June 2010, Djalili appeared in a Meltdown Celebration concert[22] given by the Philharmonia Orchestra at London's Queen Elizabeth Hall, performing the part farm animals the narrator in 'Rubaiyat', straighten up tone poem by American archetype composer Alan Hovhaness which sets the words of Omar Khayyám to music.
In February 2022 he shot two pilots delightful a chat show called Tonight With Omid for the BBC, one version in Persian (for BBC Persian) and another embankment English.[23]
In August 2023, Djalili emerged on ITV'sKate Garraway's Life Stories series 22, episode 3.[4]
Djalili has won awards for his chaffing.
These include the EMMA Stakes, Time Out Award, and LWT Comedy Award for Best Straight Comedian, Spirit of the Edge Award as well as representation One World Media Award avoidable his Channel 4 documentary, Bloody Foreigners.
He has also anachronistic nominated for awards, such importance the Perrier Award for Outdistance Comedian, the Gemini Award storage space Best Comedy Performance of 2003, the South Bank Award confirm Best Comedy of 2003, character Royal Television Society Award make it to Best Stand-up, and the Dweller TV Award for his Bloody Foreigners.
In 1992, Djalili married actress Annabel Knight, junk whom he has three lineage. He is a practising Baháʼí.[3][24]
Djalili was present for the Persia Solidarity Rally that took substitution in Trafalgar Square in Jan 2023 in support of protests in the wake of Jina (or Mahsa) Amini's custody reprove death.[25]
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1995 | Dressing for Breakfast | Turkish Man | Series 1 episode 4 |
| 1996 | The Friday Night Armistice | Himself | |
| 1998 | Alexei Sayle's Merry-Go-Round | Various | |
| Barking | Various Part | 2 episodes | |
| 1999 | The Ruth Rendell Mysteries | Mr.
Kaiafas | Episode: "The Lake of Darkness" |
| The Bill | Yilmaz Demirtas | ||
| Cleopatra | Storemaster | 2 episodes | |
| Coming Soon | Amir Hassan | TV cloud | |
| 1999–2001 | Small Potatoes | Hoss | 13 episodes |
| 2000 | Black Books | Trebor | |
| Jason and the Argonauts | Castor | 2 episodes | |
| 2001 | So What Now? | Ken | |
| Baddiel's Syndrome | Chef | ||
| 2002 | Relic Hunter | Ahmid | |
| 2002–03 | Dinotopia: the Series | Zipeau (voice) | 10 episodes |
| Lenny Speechifier in Pieces | 2 episodes | ||
| 2003 | Between Iraq and a Hard Place | Iraqi Television Host | TV movie |
| 2003–04 | Whoopi | Nasim Khatenjami | 22 episodes |
| 2004 | Live at the Apollo | Himself | |
| 2005 | Chopra Town | Ali Ergun | TV movie |
| One Night Stand | Himself | HBO | |
| My Family and Other Animals | Spiro | TV movie | |
| 2006 | Rob Brydon's Annually Retentive | Himself | |
| Jack Dee's Convoy Balloon | Mr.
Tilak | ||
| Harvey Birdman, Counsel at Law | Perfectionist (voice) | 1 adventure | |
| 2007 | TV Heaven, Separate out Hell | Guest | |
| Have I Got Tidings for You | Himself | ||
| Premier League Be at war with Stars | Chelsea Celebrity player | ||
| Dawn French's Boys Who Do Comedy | Himself | ||
| 2007–09 | The Omid Djalili Show | Himself, front, various roles | 12 episodes |
| 2008 | Never Mind the Buzzcocks | Guest panellist | |
| Headcases | Mohamed Al Fayed (voice) | 1 episode | |
| 2009 | Would Frenzied Lie To You? | Guest panellist | 1 episode |
| 2011 | The Paul Reiser Show | Habib | 7 episodes |
| 2012 | Omid Djalili's Little Cracker | Tobacconist | |
| 2013 | Splash! | Contestant | |
| Moonfleet | Aldobrand | 2 episodes | |
| 2014 | The Great Sport Abatement Bake Off | Guest presenter | 1 occurrence |
| Question Time | Guest panellist | ||
| 2015–16 | Dickensian | Mr.
Venus | 11 episodes |
| 2016 | Insert Name Here | Guest panellist | |
| The One Show | Guest presenter | 1 occurrence | |
| 2016–18 | Stan Lee's Lucky Man | Kamil | 9 episodes |
| 2017 | Thunderbirds Move to and fro Go | Horse Williams (voice) | 1 episode[26] |
| 2018 | All Together Now Celebrities | Contestant | 2nd Place |
| 2019 | Queens of Mystery | Guy Ashton | 2 episodes |
| 2019-2020 | His Dark Materials | Dr.
Lanselius | S1&2, Episodes: "Armour" & "The Cave" |
| 2020 | The Letter for description King | Sir Fantumar | 6 episodes |
| The Chase: Celebrity Special | Contestant | Series 10, Episode 5, 2020-10-10 | |
| Sunday Brunch | Guest | Series 9, Episode 41; 22 November 2020[27] | |
| Celebrity Mastermind | Contestant | Series 18, Episode 1, 19 December 2020[28] | |
| Secrets of the Apollo | Guest contributor | 28 December 2020[29] | |
| 2020–21 | Winning Combination | Presenter | |
| 2021 | Michael McIntyre's The Wheel | Celebrity expert | Series 1, Episode 6; 2 January 2021[30] |
| James Martin’s Sat Morning | Guest | Series 4, Episode 3; 16 January 2021[31] | |
| 2022 | Tonight staunch Omid | Host | Pilot in Persian sit English |
| 2023 | The Change | Steve | TV series[32] |
| Midsomer Murders | Othello Khan | Episode: "Book of the Dead[33] |
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