He played the part of the Virgin Mary's father in The Nativity Story. His performance as Farhad in Paul Haggis's Oscar-winning film Crash received positive reviews. His filmography includes his performance in Michael Bay's Bad Boys with Will Smith and Martin Lawrence, John Woo's Broken Arrow with John Travolta and Christian Slater and Mick Jackson's Live from Baghdad starring Michael Keaton and Helena Bonham Carter for HBO. He received the Cinema Sepharad award at the 2022 Los Angeles Sephardic Film Festival. He decided at age five to become an actor.

He moved to Nashua, New Hampshire to finish his last year of high school. He returned to Iran, where he lived until he was 13, before moving to Switzerland. At age 2, he moved to Manchester, England, where his mother attended podiatry school. Toub was born to an Iranian Jewish family, in Tehran, Imperial State of Iran. He has played the character Yinsen in Iron Man (2008) and Iron Man 3 (2013) Farhad in Crash (2004) Rahim Khan in The Kite Runner (2007) Majid Javadi in the Showtime television series Homeland and Faraz Kamali in the Apple TV+ Israeli series Tehran (2020). Shaun Toub ( Persian: شان توب / ˈ t uː b/ born February 15, 1958) is an Iranian-born American actor.

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