As… Mahmud Nasir

Omid is a multi award winning comedian and actor whose international career spans across TV, feature films and the stage.

His hugely popular series for BBC1, ‘The Omid Djalili Show’ has just aired it’s second series with viewing figures hitting a high of 3.1m. his most recent live national tour was a critically acclaimed sell out success. Omid’s feature film roles include THE MUMMY, GLADIATOR, CASANOVA and GROW YOUR OWN. His most memorable TV role was co-starring opposite Whoopi Goldberg in her sitcom ‘Whoopi’.

Omid became an Edinburgh Festival favourite in the early nineties with a one-man theatre piece and a string of sell-out comedy shows including ‘Short Fat Kebab Shop Owner’s Son’, ‘Arab & The Jew’, ‘The Iranian Ceilidh’ with Kamal Mazlumi and the critically acclaimed ‘Behind Enemy Lines’ in 2002 which received six 5-star reviews.

In 2005, he performed his most successful show, ‘No Agenda’, with record breaking sales on the Fringe totalling 16,500; this show then transferred to a sell-out nationwide 40 date tour, including 2 shows at the London Palladium in 2006. He has also recorded an HBO special in New York, the first British comic to do so since Eddie Izzard.

He has performed across the globe from Monte Carlo to Qatar for the Emir where he shared a stage with Bill Clinton.

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Channel 4 interviews Omid Djalili behind-the-scenes of ‘The Infidel’. Read Channel 4’s full interview here. Watch the interview below.