Faran Tahir Shooting For Prison Break Season 5 in Morocco

[Thursday 2nd June’16]: Pakistani-American Hollywood actor Faran Tahir has been busy shooting in Morocco, for the upcoming fifth season (revival) of popular American TV series Prison Break, with the rest of the cast members. Besides the intense shooting schedule, the actor has also been bonding with the cast and crew over dinners and fun activities such as ATV riding on the Moroccan sand dunes. Behind-the-scenes images from the sets have been circulating on social media and have created a lot of buzz for the upcoming season.

BTS Prison Break – shooting of a car explosion scene in Morocco

Faran will be appearing in the comeback limited-series of Prison Break in a recurring role. His character’s name is Jamil. The cast of the show includes Wentworth Miller, Dominic Purcell and Sarah Wayne Callies among others. The show originally ran from 2005 and 2009 for four seasons. The first season followed Michael Scofield, who attempted to break his brother out of prison after he is wrongly convicted of murder and sentenced to death.

Faran selfie in Morocco

About Faran Tahir

Faran Tahir (born February 16, 1964) is a Pakistani-American film and television actor. Tahir is best known for his act as Raza, the leader of a terrorist organization, “The Ten Rings” in Iron Man (2008). In 1985, he appeared as Bolshintsov in U.C. 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 Theater’s (A.R.T.) Institute for Advanced Theater 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 (1997), Anywhere But Here (1999) and Charlie Wilson’s War (2007). He also played the male lead in the 1999 independent film ABCD. In 2008, Tahir played the role of the villain Raza in the Marvel Comics-based Iron Man. 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 D.A., 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.