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Omid Djalili is a British stand-up comedian, actor, television producer and writer. Djalili was born on 30 September 1965 in St Mary Abbots Hospital in Kensington, London, to Iranian Baháʼí parents Ahmad and Parvaneh Djalili. His parents emigrated from Tehran to London in 1958. He has a brother and sister. His mother was a dressmaker who at one point assisted Iranian singer Googoosh. His father was a liaison officer at the Iranian embassy in which he would provide medical assistance. He was also a photographer whose pictures ended up in the newspaper Kayhan. He attended Holland Park School where he failed A-level exams a record six times and faked his results to gain entry to Ulster University in Coleraine, Northern Ireland, studying English and theatre studies having been turned down by 16 drama schools. Djalili cited Jack Lemmon, Dustin Hoffman, Meryl Streep, Robert De Niro, Christopher Walken and Julia Roberts as influences. The first significant success of his stand-up comedy career was at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 1995 with "Short, Fat Kebab Shop Owner's Son", followed by "The Arab and the Jew" with Jewish comedian Ivor Dembina in 1996. Djalili 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 has observed that he usually appears as a generic Middle Eastern background character in many of these films, often commenting that he appears in the James Bond film as the "Second Azerbaijani oil pipe attendant". He appeared as Nasim in 22 episodes of the U.S. sitcom Whoopi, starring Whoopi Goldberg, and picked up an international film award for Best Supporting Actor in Casanova, starring alongside Heath Ledger and Jeremy Irons. Djalili has won awards for his comedy. These include the EMMA Award, Time Out Award, and LWT Comedy Award for Best Stand-up Comedian, Spirit of the Fringe Award as well as the One World Media Award for his Channel 4 documentary, Bloody Foreigners. He has also been nominated for awards, such as the Perrier Award for Best Comedian, the Gemini Award for Best Comedy Performance of 2003, the South Bank Award for Best Comedy of 2003, the Royal Television Society Award for Best Stand-up, and the European TV Award for his Bloody Foreigners.
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- wc Gender: Male
- calendar_month Birth Date: 1965-09-30
- event Death Date Unknown
- school Known for: Acting
- star Popularity: 1.2
- info Birth Place Chelsea, London, England, UK
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6.9
The Mummy
1999-04-16
5.9
Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow
2004-09-17
5.5
The Calcium Kid
2004-04-30
6.6
Over the Hedge
2006-05-17
5.3
The Secret Policeman's Ball: The Ball in the Hall
2006-10-31
4.1
The Love Guru
2008-06-20
5.6
Alien Autopsy
2006-04-07
6.5
Casanova
2005-12-25
7.1
Modigliani
2004-05-18
6.1
The Infidel
2010-02-18
6
Omid Djalili: No Agenda
2007-11-27
5.7
Omid Djalili: Live in London
2009-11-16
6.2
Mr. Nice
2010-10-07
6.6
Grow Your Own
2007-06-15
3.2
Big Fat Gypsy Gangster
2011-09-14
6.3
Dinotopia 3: The Election
2002-12-19
6.2
Dinotopia 2: The Temptation
2002-12-05
6.2
Dinotopia 4: New Horizons
2003-07-03
6.2
Dinotopia 5: The Virus
2003-07-24
6.1
Dinotopia 6: The Exit
2003-08-07
6.1
Omid Djalili: Tour of Duty
2012-11-19
6.8
Just Like Us
2011-06-10
6.8
Love Again
2023-05-04
7.9
Journey to Bethlehem
2023-11-09
0
Christmas Comedy Club with Lost Voice Guy
2021-12-24
6.3
The World Is Not Enough
1999-11-17
7
Shaun the Sheep Movie
2015-02-05
0
One-Night Stand: Omid Djalili
2005-09-30
8.3
Gladiator
2000-05-04
5
Comic Aid
2005-03-02
6.7
Deep Cover
2025-06-12
7.2
We Are Most Amused
2008-11-15
6.1
Sex and the City 2
2010-05-26
6.5
My Family and Other Animals
2005-12-27
5.3
Molly Moon and the Incredible Book of Hypnotism
2015-04-11
7
A Grand Night In: The Story of Aardman
2015-12-26
6.3
Dying Laughing
2017-02-24
0
Retrospective
2014-07-14
0
Les Dawson Lost Tapes
2021-07-21
0
Deadlines
2005-06-08
6.1
The Nutcracker and the Four Realms
2018-10-26
0
Chopratown
2005-12-19
7.5
The Egyptian Job
2011-09-14
7.1
Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again
2018-07-18
7
Spy Game
2001-11-18
7.3
Notting Hill
1999-05-21
3.6
Mad Cows
1999-10-29
6.3
Mean Machine
2001-12-26
5.9
Anita and Me
2002-11-22
7.3
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End
2007-05-19
5.8
Dead Man Running
2009-01-29
8
We Are Most Amused and Amazed
2018-11-13
4.4
The Comedian's Guide to Survival
2016-10-28
0
New Town
2009-04-14
0
The Way Out
2020-04-11
0
Performance Live: The Way Out
0
World's Greatest Stand Up: Volume One
2006-05-08
5.5
Cinema Iran
2005-05-04
0
Tomorrow Morning
2022-09-09
0
Cold War Steve Meets the Outside World
2020-11-24
0
In Your Dreams
2025-11-13
7.5
Top Gear
2002-10-20
7.5
TV Heaven, Telly Hell
2006-03-26
7.1
Live at the Apollo
2004-09-06
8.7
Whoopi
2003-09-09
4.6
The One Show
2006-08-14
5.8
Friday Night with Jonathan Ross
2001-11-02
6.3
Room 101
1994-07-04
7.1
Rob Brydon's Annually Retentive
2006-07-11
5.8
Lock, Stock...
2000-05-29
6.7
Relic Hunter
1999-09-25
7.7
Would I Lie to You?
2007-06-16
7.2
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
1993-09-13
5.5
Headcases
2008-04-06
7.7
The Omid Djalili Show
2007-11-17
8
One Night Stand
1989-02-15
0
Comedy World Cup
2012-09-15
5.8
Michael McIntyre's The Wheel
2020-11-28
5.6
GMTV
1993-01-01
0
Coming Soon
1999-06-17
0
Britney
2021-11-30
6
The Paul Reiser Show
2011-04-14
0
The Michael Ball Show
2010-08-16
7
Alexei Sayle's Merry-Go-Round
1998-05-08
5
Winning Combination
2020-11-16
7.2
The Change
2023-06-21
7.3
Dickensian
2015-12-26
6.2
The Ruth Rendell Mysteries
1987-08-02
0
Going Forward
2016-05-19
4.6
The One Show
2006-08-14
7.1
Alan Davies: As Yet Untitled
2014-06-16
5.9
Kate Garraway's Life Stories
2009-02-22
0
All the Queen's Horses with Alan Titchmarsh
2009-07-19
7.5
Midsomer Murders
1997-03-23
6.1
Jason and the Argonauts
2000-05-07
7.6
Beat the Chasers
2020-04-27
7
Never Mind the Buzzcocks
1996-11-12
6.7
Insert Name Here
2016-01-04
0
The Great Sport Relief Bake Off
2012-01-10
0
Let's Dance for Sport Relief
2010-02-20
5.5
Question Time
1979-09-25
7.2
The Graham Norton Show
2007-02-22
7
Have I Got a Bit More News for You
7.9
His Dark Materials
2019-11-03
5
Dinotopia
2002-11-28
6
Celebrity Mastermind
2003-12-26
8.1
Black Books
2000-09-29
7.1
Have I Got News for You
1990-09-28
7
Blankety Blank
2021-10-02