Omid Djalili

Comedian

Omid Djalili was born in London on September 30th, 1965 and is the Comedian. At the age of 59, Omid Djalili biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, movies, TV shows, and networth are available.

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Date of Birth
September 30, 1965
Nationality
United Kingdom
Place of Birth
London
Age
59 years old
Zodiac Sign
Libra
Profession
Comedian, Film Actor, Stand-up Comedian, Television Actor, Voice Actor
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Annabel Knight ​(m. 1992)​
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3
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Omid Djalili Career

The first significant success of his stand-up comedy career was at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 1995 with "Short, Fat Kebab Shop Owner's Son", followed by "The Arab and the Jew" with Jewish comedian Ivor Dembina in 1996.

Djalili has performed in numerous countries, including Australia, Ireland, Sweden, Belgium, Canada and the United States, where he had his own HBO Special.

Djalili took part in a show for Comic Relief after the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami and also in 2005 he appeared on the British TV show Top Gear as a celebrity driver. The same year he broke Edinburgh Festival box office records with over 16,500 ticket sales.

In 2006, Sky Television picked him to be the face of their Saturday night film premières, and he also announced a new tour of the UK called 'No Agenda', from January 2007 until March 2007, covering 23 different dates. The No Agenda tour DVD was released in late 2007.

On 18 March 2007, Djalili was voted by the British public as the 60th best stand-up comedian in a Channel 4 programme "The 100 Greatest Stand-Ups",. On 26 October 2007, he guest-presented the BBC political quiz show Have I Got News for You. The Omid Djalili Show started on BBC1 on 17 November 2007. The series was a mix of sketches and stand-up material. A second series was recorded in late 2008 and began broadcast on BBC 1 on 20 April 2009. He performed on We Are Most Amused on ITV1 to mark Prince Charles's 60th birthday in 2008 and on We Are Most Amused and Amazed to mark his 70th birthday in 2018.

Acting career

Djalili has appeared in a number of films, most notably Gladiator, The Mummy, Mean Machine, The World Is Not Enough, Alien Autopsy, Spy Game, Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow, Grow Your Own, Notting Hill, Mr Nice, Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End, Sex and the City 2 and provides his voice in Over the Hedge.

He has observed that he usually appears as a generic Middle Eastern background character in many of these films, often commenting that he appears in the James Bond film as the "Second Azerbaijani oil pipe attendant". He appeared as Nasim in 22 episodes of the U.S. sitcom Whoopi, starring Whoopi Goldberg, and picked up an international film award for Best Supporting Actor in Casanova, starring alongside Heath Ledger and Jeremy Irons.

On 12 February 2009, producer Cameron Mackintosh announced that Djalili would appear as the second Fagin in the new West End production of Oliver! at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, London. Omid took over from Rowan Atkinson, who had been contracted until 18 July 2009.

In 2009, Djalili became the voice of Yusuf Amir in the popular gaming series Grand Theft Auto. He took up the role in the Grand Theft Auto: The Ballad of Gay Tony spin-off game. In 2010, he starred in the David Baddiel-scripted film The Infidel.

In 2010, Djalili starred in a series of TV and cinema adverts for Moneysupermarket.com.

Djalili appeared in the short-lived NBC sitcom The Paul Reiser Show, which was a midseason replacement for the 2010–11 television season.

For the BBC Learning project Off By Heart Shakespeare, Omid played Lord Capulet from Romeo and Juliet and delivered the speech "Hang thee, young baggage, disobedient wretch!"

Djalili appears in the Sky TV adaptation of Moonfleet shooting in Ireland in 2013.

He appeared in the second series of Thunderbirds Are Go in October 2016 as Horse Williams.

Djalili provided his voice in the 2015 stop motion animated comedy Shaun the Sheep Movie.

In 2017 Djalili appeared in an acclaimed performance of Fiddler on the Roof at the Chichester Festival Theatre.

In 2019 he appeared as Dr Martin Lanselius in the BBC adaptation of Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials.

In 2020 he began hosting the ITV game show Winning Combination.

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Dame Maggie Smith reveals how Harry Potter 'changed her life' in heartwarming resurfaced interview about playing Professor McGonagall

www.dailymail.co.uk, September 27, 2024
Dame Maggie Smith revealed the impact Harry Potter had on her life in a resurfaced interview as people everywhere started to recognise her.  The beloved actress - who sadly died aged 89 on Friday - starred as Minerva McGonagall in seven of the eight films.  Following her death, Maggie's 2023 appearance on The Graham Norton Show has resurfaced, where the actress and the Irish comedian, 61, discussed how Harry Potter 'changed her life'. 

MY LIFE IN FOOD: Comedian and actor Omid Djalili

www.dailymail.co.uk, August 10, 2024
The comedian and actor, 58, tells Tom Parker Bowles about what he does with profiteroles, his disgrace after eating a chilli and five years of chips with everything

After being hit with 'personal insurgents regarding the Israel-Palestine situation,' British-Iranian Omid Djalili left his Shropshire comedy show after receiving 'personal warnings about the Israel-Palestine situation.'

www.dailymail.co.uk, October 20, 2023
Omid Djalili, a British-Iranian comedian, was set to appear at his show, Omid Djalili and Friends, in Market Drayton, Shropshire, on Saturday. Many who purchased tickets to the performance will be refunded next week, according to the organization. "Due to security threats made against Omid Djalili, the Festival Drayton Centre's manager, Jodie Rudd, told the Shropshire Star: Tonight's performance has had to be cancelled due to security reasons.' All customers are being reached, and we're working really hard.' A spokesperson for West Mercia Police said they had not received any reports regarding the incident from the venue, and they had reached out to Mr Djalili to ask assistance. Mr Djalili, a young Londoner who grew up in Kensington, London, has cancelled his show ahead of his scheduled Irish tour next week, where he will appear in Derry, Belfast, Dublin, and Galway.
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