David Dastmalchian
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David Dastmalchian (born July 21, 1977) is an American actor.
He received acclaim in Chicago for his lead roles in Tennessee Williams' The Glass Menagerie and Sam Shepard's Buried Child.
Kurt appeared in Marvel Studios' Ant-Man (2015) and its sequel Ant-Man and the Wasp (2018), Murdoc in CBS's MacGyver, and Abra Kadabra in The CW's The Flash.
Personal life
In 2014, Dastmalchian married artist Evelyn "Eve" Leigh. They have two children. They live in Los Angeles.
Early life and career
David Dastmalchian was born in Allentown, Pennsylvania, on July 21, 1975, to Priscilla (née Doran, 1941–2021), and Hossein Dastmalchian (1937–2021), an Iranian-American engineer who worked at engineering company Black & Veatch. He has two sisters and a brother. His parents divorced, which he characterized as "tumultuous," and they both remarried. He was born in Overland Park, Kansas, where he attended Shawnee Mission South High School, becoming a member of the drama club. "In one sense, very traditional, fringe, artistic, progressive group of people who were looking for connection through the arts and culture of KC and the immediate suburbs," he described growing up in the Kansas City metropolitan area.
Dastmalchian's vitiligo, which attracted ridicule from his peers in his youth. He suffered with depression throughout his childhood. As a kid, he loved football, theater, and comedies. With the money he earned mowing lawns, he would mow lawns and buy comics. He attended DePaul University's Theatre School and graduated in 1999. He suffered with heroin use for five years before beginning his career as an actor. He wrote about his experiences with his film, Animals, and continues to advocate for mental health and heroin abuse treatment services. He worked at a seafood restaurant in Kansas City less than a year after becoming sober. He was also a fisherman in Alaska for a short time.
Career
Dastmalchian began his professional career in Chicago in the mid-2000s, serving on stage and in commercials. He has been praised for his leading roles in Tennessee Williams's The Glass Menagerie and Sam Shepard's Buried Child, which appear in Chicago's Shattered Globe Theatre. He performed with a variety of Chicago theater companies as well as as a Caffeine Theatre artistic associate.
Thomas Schiff, the Joker's deranged henchman in Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight, made his debut in the late 2000s. His portrayal of Bob Taylor in Denis Villeneuve's Prisoners received raves. Dastmalchian's performance, according to Richard Corliss of Time, was "good – chatty, modest with some subtle telltale psychopathy," and The Guardian's Paul MacInnes liked his appointment as a new witness to Kevin Spacey's arrival in Seven.
Dastmalchian was named the Special Jury Prize for Courage in Storytelling at the South by the Southwest Film Festival in March 2014. Collin Schiffli's feature film Animals written and performed. "Providing] an authenticity often lacking in films about heroin use," Ashley Moreno of The Austin Chronicle notes. Brian Tallerico of Film Threat praises Dastmalchian's breakout success, noting his ability to "capture the sense of self-loathing that comes through in an addict's body language without overselling it."
Other feature film appearances include starring roles in The Employer, Sushi Girl, the Indie grindhouse's triumph at the San Diego Black Film Festival, and Michel Franco's Chronic.
He has appeared on television: as Simon on Fox's "Almost Human"; as a chess expert and murder suspect on CBS' investigative crime drama series CSI: Crime Scene Investigation; and as Oz Turner on BBC drama series Intruders. The League, the Showtime crime drama series Ray Donovan, and NBC's medical drama ER are among other television appearances.
In seasons 3 and 7 of The Flash, Dastmalchian played DC Comics villain Abra Kadabra.
When he appeared in Blade Runner 2049, he reunited with Denis Villeneuve. Kurt appeared in the Ant-Man and the Wasp sequel in the following year. He appeared in 2021 as Polka-Dot Man in The Suicide Squad, a character whose reaction to childhood bullying he suffered as a result of his vitiligo. In the same year, he appeared in his third Denis Villeneuve film in Dune, where he portrayed Piter De Vries.
Dastmalchian is a comic book writer. Count Crowley, his horror comic book published by Dark Horse Comics, debuted in 2019.