Pakistani-American Hollywood actor Faran Tahir has officially joined the star cast of American television series ’12 Monkeys’.
He will be seen as a part of the upcoming third season of the show, which is currently being shot in Toronto, Canada. Faran will be playing the role of Mallick, a devout enforcer of the Army of the 12 Monkeys who lives in Titan.
’12 Monkeys’ is an American television series which airs on American satellite television channel Syfy. The show was created by Terry Matalas and Travis Fickett. It is a science fiction mystery drama loosely based on the 1995 film of the same name, which itself was based on the 1962 short film ‘La Jetée’. The third season of the show will be airing in 2017.
“Mallick is mysterious, duplicitous, dangerous and focused. Quite delicious!” says Faran about his character on the show.
Faran Tahir is a Pakistani-American film and television actor. Tahir is best known for his act as Raza, the leader of a terrorist organisation The Ten Rings in ‘Iron Man’. In 1985, he appeared as Bolshintsov in UC Berkeley’s production of A Month in the Country. He graduated from the University of California, Berkeley, with a BA in Theatre before acquiring a graduate degree from the American Repertory Theatre’s Institute for Advanced Theatre Training at Harvard University.
He made his film debut playing Nathoo in the Disney’s 1994 live-action version of Rudyard Kipling’s The Jungle Book. He has since appeared in such films as ‘Picture Perfect’, ‘Anywhere but Here’ and ‘Charlie Wilson’s War’. He also played the male lead in the 1999 independent film ‘ABCD’. He played Starfleet Captain Richard Robau in the 2009 film ‘Star Trek’. In 2013, Tahir played President Patel in the science-fiction film ‘Elysium’.
Tahir has guest starred on many television series, including ‘Alias’, ‘The Practice’, ‘Family Law’, ‘The Agency’, ‘NYPD Blue’, ‘Lost’, ‘7th Heaven’, ‘The West Wing’, ‘Walker’, ‘Texas Ranger’, ‘The DA’, ’24’, ‘Monk’, ‘Justice’, ‘Cold Case’, ‘Chuck’ and ‘Warehouse 13’. He also co-starred with Robert Beltran and Chase Masterson in the 2005 sci-fi channel original movie ‘Manticore’. He also starred in the medical drama series ‘Grey’s Anatomy’ as Isaac and appeared on the CW series ‘Supernatural’ as the Egyptian god Osiris in the seventh season’s episode “Defending Your Life”. He appeared a Ruslan Denisov in The Blacklist Season 2 Episode 11, as Detective Terrence Amos in ‘How to Get Away with Murder’ Season 1 Episode 10 and as Dr Alan Kobrine in ‘Backstrom’ Season 1, Episode 9. He is also played Frank, Cliff Barnes’ right-hand man in the reboot of ‘Dallas’. Tahir starred in the ghost horror film Jinn.
He appeared in ‘JAG’ in the episodes “Ice Queen” and “Meltdown” which served as the two pilot episodes for the series ‘NCIS’. Seven years later, Tahir appeared in the spin-off ‘NCIS: Los Angeles’.