David Diaan

David Diaan

Born: April 12, 1959
in Tehran, Iran
David Diaan has built an impressive career as an acclaimed Iranian American Actor, Writer, and Producer.

Movies for David Diaan...

Title: Class of '09
Character: Hour's Dad
Released: May 10, 2023
Type: TV
Set in three distinct points in time, follow a class of FBI agents who grapple with immense changes as the U.S. criminal justice system is altered by artificial intelligence.
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Forgive Me
Title: Forgive Me
Character: Babak
Released: October 25, 2019
Type: Movie
A forbidden love story in a forbidden place.
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Cuck
Title: Cuck
Character: Abbas
Released: October 4, 2019
Type: Movie
Ronnie is a young white male, struggling with the pressures of life. He’s unemployed, rejected from the military for being mentally unstable, and lives at home with his ailing and nagging mother. Ronnie finds an outlet for his frustration online. The alt-right community gives him a place to belong and absolves his personal responsibility.
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Roya
Title: Roya
Character: Farhad
Released: July 29, 2018
Type: Movie
Roya, a traditional Iranian-American mother, freaks out when her daughter dyes her hair blue right before an engagement party.
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Title: DC's Legends of Tomorrow
Character: Mr. Tarazi
Released: January 21, 2016
Type: TV
When heroes alone are not enough ... the world needs legends. Having seen the future, one he will desperately try to prevent from happening, time-traveling rogue Rip Hunter is tasked with assembling a disparate group of both heroes and villains to confront an unstoppable threat — one in which not only is the planet at stake, but all of time itself. Can this ragtag team defeat an immortal threat unlike anything they have ever known?
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Baba Joon
Title: Baba Joon
Character: Dariush
Released: September 10, 2015
Type: Movie
Yitzhak runs the turkey farm his father built with his own two hands after they emigrated from Iran to Israel. When his son Moti turns thirteen, Yitzhak teaches him the trade, hoping that he will continue the proud family tradition. But Moti doesn't like working in the turkey barn; his passion is fixing up junkyard cars and bringing them back to life. Moti's mother Sarah tries to reconcile between the two, while his grandfather pushes Yitzhak to take a firm hand with his son. Yitzhak takes Moti's refusal to work in the turkey barn as a personal rejection. Though he loves his son dearly, he makes it his mission to impose the family farm on Moti. The arrival of Darius, the uncle from America, sets off a chain of events that will undermine the familial harmony. Soon enough Yitzhak will learn that his son is just as stubborn as he is. The conflict is inevitable.
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In Her Place
Title: In Her Place
Character: Ali
Released: June 15, 2015
Type: Movie
Cultural, gender, and emotional challenges are explored in this story of an Iranian-American widower who returns to his homeland to take a second wife.
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The Interview
Title: The Interview
Character: Palestinian President (uncredited)
Released: December 25, 2014
Type: Movie
Dave Skylark and his producer Aaron Rapaport run the celebrity tabloid show "Skylark Tonight". When they land an interview with a surprise fan, North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un, they are recruited by the CIA to turn their trip to Pyongyang into an assassination mission.
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Title: Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
Character: Elias
Released: September 24, 2013
Type: TV
Agent Phil Coulson of S.H.I.E.L.D. (Strategic Homeland Intervention, Enforcement and Logistics Division) puts together a team of agents to investigate the new, the strange and the unknown around the globe, protecting the ordinary from the extraordinary.
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Title: The Blacklist
Character: Bahram Bakhash
Released: September 23, 2013
Type: TV
Raymond "Red" Reddington, one of the FBI's most wanted fugitives, surrenders in person at FBI Headquarters in Washington, D.C. He claims that he and the FBI have the same interests: bringing down dangerous criminals and terrorists. In the last two decades, he's made a list of criminals and terrorists that matter the most but the FBI cannot find because it does not know they exist. Reddington calls this "The Blacklist". Reddington will co-operate, but insists that he will speak only to Elizabeth Keen, a rookie FBI profiler.
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Revolution
Title: Revolution
Character: Ahmad
Released: October 21, 2012
Type: Movie
A coming-of-age story about Jack, a 16-year old Iranian boy growing up in 1989 Los Angeles. With the 1979 Iranian Revolution a distant memory, the AIDS movement as a backdrop, and a haunting score by Vampire Weekend's Rostam Batmanglij, Jack learns how to stage his own much smaller revolution within the confines of his traditional family.
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Nose Job
Title: Nose Job
Character: Roya's Father
Released: March 1, 2011
Type: Movie
15 year-old Iranian-American, Roya, hasn't grown into her features. Awkward and graceless, she spends her time fantasizing about becoming a famous model, giving mock interviews to herself. Roya wants nothing more than for her mother to tell her she's beautiful. Unfortunately, her mother has some very strict requirements.
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The Stoning of Soraya M.
Title: The Stoning of Soraya M.
Character: Ebrahim
Released: June 26, 2009
Type: Movie
In 1986 Iran, Sahebjam, whose car breaks down in a remote village, enters into a conversation with Zahra, who relays to him the story about her niece, Soraya, whose arranged marriage to an abusive tyrant ended in tragedy.
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Title: Parks and Recreation
Character: Saïd
Released: April 9, 2009
Type: TV
In an attempt to beautify her town — and advance her career — Leslie Knope, a mid-level bureaucrat in the Parks and Recreation Department of Pawnee, Indiana, takes on bureaucrats, cranky neighbors, and single-issue fanatics whose weapons are lawsuits, the jumble of city codes, and the democratic process she loves so much.
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Title: The Unit
Released: March 7, 2006
Type: TV
A covert team of special forces operatives risk their lives on undercover missions around the globe, while their wives maintain the homefront, protecting their husbands' secrets.
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Title: Bones
Character: Omid Turan
Released: September 13, 2005
Type: TV
Dr. Temperance Brennan and her colleagues at the Jeffersonian's Medico-Legal Lab assist Special Agent Seeley Booth with murder investigations when the remains are so badly decomposed, burned or destroyed that the standard identification methods are useless.
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Title: Weeds
Character: Daoud Mahmud
Released: August 7, 2005
Type: TV
After the unexpected death of her husband, a suburban mom resorts to selling weed to support her family.
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Title: NCIS
Character: Farid Bawali
Released: September 23, 2003
Type: TV
From murder and espionage to terrorism and stolen submarines, a team of special agents investigates any crime that has a shred of evidence connected to Navy and Marine Corps personnel, regardless of rank or position.
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The Dogwalker
Title: The Dogwalker
Character: Angry Client
Released: March 3, 2002
Type: Movie
The L.A. dog walking scene provides a colorful backdrop for the story of Ellie Moore, damaged goods on the run from her latest abusive boyfriend and on the verge of transformation. She's helped along in that process by Betsy Wright, a misanthropic dog-walker in need of help with her business and struggling with her own dark past.
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America So Beautiful
Title: America So Beautiful
Character: Parviz
Released: October 11, 2001
Type: Movie
This film follows the odyssey of a group of Iranian immigrants in Los Angeles, trying to find their place in America amidst the unfolding of the 1979 Iran hostage crisis.
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Title: Curb Your Enthusiasm
Character: Consul
Released: October 15, 2000
Type: TV
The off-kilter, unscripted comic vision of Larry David, who plays himself in a parallel universe in which he can't seem to do anything right, and, by his standards, neither can anyone else.