Shaun Toub
Also Known As: 샤운 토웁
Biography: Shaun Toub is an Iranian-American film and television actor. He is perhaps best known for his role as Farhad in the 2004 movie Crash, as Rahim Khan in the movie The Kite Runner, and as Yinsen in the film adaptation of the Iron Man comic book series. Toub, who is of Persian Jewish background, was born in Tehran, Iran and raised in Manchester, England (his family left Iran before the 1979 revolution). At the age of fourteen, he moved to Switzerland and after a two year stay, he crossed the Atlantic to Nashua, New Hampshire to finish his last year of high school. His high school yearbook notes: "The funniest guy in school and the most likely to succeed in the entertainment world." After two years of college in Massachusetts, Shaun transferred to USC. Shaun is active in the Iranian Jewish community. Through various charity events and public speaking engagements, he inspires the community to embrace the arts, as the arts enhance everyday life. He has been a recipient of the Sephard award at the Los Angeles Sephardic Film Festival. Toub currently resides in Los Angeles.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Tehran, Iran
Birthday: February 15, 1958
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Gender: Male
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Land of Plenty
Overview: After living abroad, Lana returns to the United States, and finds that her uncle is a reclusive vagabond with psychic wounds from the Vietnam War.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-09-10
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The Last Airbender
Overview: The story follows the adventures of Aang, a young successor to a long line of Avatars, who must put his childhood ways aside and stop the Fire Nation from enslaving the Water, Earth and Air nations.
Genres: Action Adventure Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-06-30
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Iron Man
Overview: After being held captive in an Afghan cave, billionaire engineer Tony Stark creates a unique weaponized suit of armor to fight evil.
Genres: Action Science Fiction Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-04-30
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Stigmata
Overview: A young woman with no strong religious beliefs, Frankie Paige begins having strange and violent experiences, showing signs of the wounds that Jesus received when crucified. When the Vatican gets word of Frankie's situation, a high-ranking cardinal requests that the Rev. Andrew Kiernan investigate her case. Soon Kiernan realizes that very sinister forces are at work, and tries to rescue Frankie from the entity that is plaguing her.
Genres: Horror Thriller Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-09-02
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The Nativity Story
Overview: Mary and Joseph make the hard journey to Bethlehem for a blessed event in this retelling of the Nativity story. This meticulously researched and visually lush adaptation of the biblical tale follows the pair on their arduous path to their arrival in a small village, where they find shelter in a quiet manger and Jesus is born.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-11-30
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The Kite Runner
Overview: After spending years in California, Amir returns to his homeland in Afghanistan to help his old friend Hassan, whose son is in trouble.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-12-14
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Steel Sharks
Overview: In this undersea thriller, a United States submarine is seized by terrorists. But a rescue attempt by an elite group of Navy Seals goes wrong when they are captured. Now they must wage a silent war beneath the waves.
Genres: Action Adventure Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-10-10
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Forgive Me
Overview: A forbidden love story in a forbidden place.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-10-25
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Setup
Overview: A group of friends plan out a detailed heist that turns deadly when one betrays the other by taking off with the goods. Taking matters into his own hands, Sonny seeks out his revenge teaming up with the most dangerous mob boss in town to get back what is rightfully his. When he finally comes face to face with his longtime friend he will be forced to make a life changing choice.
Genres: Action Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-10-17
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Hot Shots! Part Deux
Overview: Topper Harley is found to be working as an odd-job-man in a monastery. The CIA want him to lead a rescue mission into Iraq, to rescue the last rescue team, who went in to rescue the last rescue team—who went in to rescue hostages left behind after Desert Storm.
Genres: Action Comedy War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-05-21
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Suddenly
Overview: Just as Mary is about to take a romantic vacation with her boyfriend, a terrible accident leaves her paralyzed. Bitter and devastated by her condition, she shuns her friends, but with the help of Joe, a fellow paraplegic, she learns to embrace life and love again.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-12-01
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Charlie Wilson's War
Overview: In the 1980s U.S. Rep. Charlie Wilson, Texas socialite Joanne Herring and CIA agent Gust Avrakotos form an unlikely alliance to boost funding for Afghan freedom fighters in their war against invading Soviets. The trio's successful efforts to finance these covert operations contributes to the fall of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War.
Genres: Comedy Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-12-19
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D.R.E.A.M. Team
Overview: J.W. Garrison, the head of a top-secret sub agency of the United Nations, discovers that a team of terrorists, led by the murderous Oliver Maxwell, plan on producing a bomb carrying an anthrax virus to be used in the United States. Garrison summons CIA agent Zack Hamilton who puts together a team of three beautiful women; CIA trainer Kim Taylor; photographer Victoria Carrera; and actress Eva Kirov to go to undercover as fashion models to infiltrate the terrorist organization to find the bomb before it can be used.
Genres: Adventure Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-09-25
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Maryam
Overview: An Iranian-born teenager living in suburban New Jersey thinks of herself as simply an American until anti-Iranian sentiment erupts in her community after American hostages are held in Iran.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-02-22
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Crash
Overview: In post-Sept. 11 Los Angeles, tensions erupt when the lives of a Brentwood housewife, her district attorney husband, a Persian shopkeeper, two cops, a pair of carjackers and a Korean couple converge during a 36-hour period.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-05-06
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Iron Man 3
Overview: When Tony Stark's world is torn apart by a formidable terrorist called the Mandarin, he starts an odyssey of rebuilding and retribution.
Genres: Action Adventure Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-04-18
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Stretch
Overview: A hard-luck limo driver struggling to go straight and pay off a debt to his bookie takes on a job with a crazed passenger whose sought-after ledger implicates some seriously dangerous criminals.
Genres: Action Comedy Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-10-14
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Unity
Overview: Despite the advent of science, literature, technology, philosophy, religion, and so on -- none of these has assuaged humankind from killing one another, the animals, and nature. UNITY is a film about why we can't seem to get along, even after thousands and thousands of years.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-08-12
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War Dogs
Overview: Based on the true story of two young men, David Packouz and Efraim Diveroli, who won a $300 million contract from the Pentagon to arm America's allies in Afghanistan.
Genres: Comedy Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-08-18
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Papa Hemingway in Cuba
Overview: In 1959, a young journalist ventures to Havana, Cuba to meet his idol, the legendary Ernest Hemingway who helped him find his literary voice, while the Cuban Revolution comes to a boil around them.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-11-19
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Out of Time
Overview: A cop from the future goes back in time to Los Angeles and teams up with his grandfather to capture a master criminal.
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-07-17
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Executive Decision
Overview: Terrorists hijack a 747 inbound to Washington D.C., demanding the release of their imprisoned leader. Intelligence expert David Grant (Kurt Russell) suspects another reason and he is soon the reluctant member of a special assault team that is assigned to intercept the plane and hijackers.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-03-15
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Ghosts of War
Overview: A group of World War II American soldiers encounter a supernatural enemy as they occupy a French castle previously under Nazi control.
Genres: Horror Thriller War Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-07-03
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Bad Boys
Overview: Marcus Burnett is a henpecked family man. Mike Lowrey is a footloose and fancy free ladies' man. Both Miami policemen, they have 72 hours to reclaim a consignment of drugs stolen from under their station's nose. To complicate matters, in order to get the assistance of the sole witness to a murder, they have to pretend to be each other.
Genres: Action Comedy Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-04-07
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Live from Baghdad
Overview: A group of CNN reporters wrestle with journalistic ethics and the life-and-death perils of reporting during the Gulf War.A Directors Guild Award-winning movie for director Mick Jackson, starring Michael Keaton and Helena Bonham Carter. In 1990, CNN was a 24-hour news network in search of a 24-hour story. They were about to find it in Baghdad. Veteran CNN producer Robert Wiener and his longtime producing partner Ingrid Formanek find themselves in Iraq on the eve of war. Up against the big three networks, Weiner and his team are rebels with a cause, willing to take risks to get the biggest stories and - unlike their rivals - take them live at a moment's notice. As Baghdad becomes an inevitable US target, one by one the networks pull out of the city until only the crew from CNN remains. With a full-scale war soon to be launched all around them, and CNN ready to broadcast whatever happens 24 hours a day, Wiener and Formanek are about to risk their lives for the story of a lifetime.
Genres: Drama War TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-12-07
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Broken Arrow
Overview: When rogue stealth-fighter pilot Vic Deakins deliberately drops off the radar while on maneuvers, the Air Force ends up with two stolen nuclear warheads -- and Deakins's co-pilot, Riley Hale, is the military's only hope for getting them back. Traversing the deserted canyons of Utah, Hale teams with park ranger Terry Carmichael to put Deakins back in his box.
Genres: Action Adventure Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-02-09
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