Acting

Omid Abtahi

Born 1979-07-12 · Tehran, Iran

Omid Abtahi (Persian: امید ابطحی; born July 12, 1979) is an Iranian-born American actor. He is best known for his roles as Salim in Starz Original American Gods, Penn Pershing in The Mandalorian on Disney+, Saleem Ulman in NCIS on Paramount+, and Homes in the fourth installment of The Hunger Games film series, The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2. He is also known for his performances as Justin Yates in Ghost Whisperer on CBS and Detective Jerry Molbeck in the American TV adaptation of Those Who Kill on A&E.

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The Mighty Nein
as Dead Eye / Bartender (voice)
2025
The Chosen Adventures
as Kato the Augur (voice)
2025
The Chosen Adventures
as Vendor (voice)
2025
Rock, Paper, Scissors
as Pharaoh Atraxes / Camel 2 (voice)
2024
Tracker
as Harith Holmes
2024
City on Fire
as Det. Ali Parsa
2023
Marvel's Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur
as Ahmed (voice)
2023
Marvel's Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur
as Additional Voices (voice)
2023
Kung Fu Panda: The Dragon Knight
as Alfie / Knight (voice)
2022
Kung Fu Panda: The Dragon Knight
as Alfie (voice)
2022
Dan Brown's The Lost Symbol
2021
Justice Society: World War II
as Hawkman (voice)
2021
Disney Gallery / Star Wars: The Mandalorian
as Self
2020
Fast & Furious Spy Racers
as Sandocal
2019
The Mandalorian
as Dr. Penn Pershing
2019
The Boys
as Sameer Shah
2019
Love, Death & Robots
as Wes (voice)
2019
FBI
as Faheem Ellahie
2018
DuckTales
as D'jinn (voice)
2017
American Gods
as Salim
2017
Window Horses: The Poetic Persian Epiphany of Rosie Ming
as Ramin (voice)
2017
Damien: Behind the Scenes
as Self
2016
Damien
as Amani Golkar
2016
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2
as Homes
2015
We Bare Bears
as Additional Voices (voice)
2015
Fear the Walking Dead
as Howard
2015
Better Call Saul
as Detective Abbasi
2015
State of Affairs
as Rayst Kamal
2014
Madam Secretary
as Deputy Minister Amin Hamadani
2014
Legends
as Bashir Al-Kanazer
2014
Boys of Abu Ghraib
as Ghazi Hammoud
2014
Argo
as Reza Borhani
2012
Revolution
as Captain Riley
2012
Hide
as Neil
2011
Homeland
as Raqim Faisel
2011
Shameless
as Sameer
2011
Hawaii Five-0
as Naser Salaam
2010
Space Chimps 2: Zartog Strikes Back
as Dr. Jagu / Reporter #2 (voice)
2010
Brothers
as Yusuf
2009
FlashForward
as Ed Fiore
2009
NCIS: Los Angeles
as Ari Sayed
2009
The Good Wife
as Samir
2009
Archer
as (voice)
2009
Diplomacy
as American Interpreter
2009
Castle
as Rasheed Waqas
2009
Ocean of Pearls
as Amrit Singh
2008
My Own Worst Enemy
as Tony Nazari
2008
Star Wars: The Clone Wars
as Cadet Amis (voice)
2008
Star Wars: The Clone Wars
as Amis / Mandalorian Super Commando (voice)
2008
The Mentalist
as Markham Shankar
2008
Fringe
2008
Fringe
as Simon Philips
2008
Space Chimps
as Dr. Jagu (voice)
2008
The Last Lullaby
as Van
2008
Eli Stone
as Amir Khan
2008
The Mysteries of Pittsburgh
as Mohammed
2008
Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles
as Sumner
2008
Running with Scissors
as Restaurant Manager
2006
The Unit
as The Boss
2006
Sleeper Cell
as Salim
2005
Over There
as Pfc. Tariq Nassiri
2005
Ghost Whisperer
as Justin Yates
2005
Bones
as Hal Shirazi
2005
Grey's Anatomy
as Aasif
2005
NCIS
as Saleem Ulman
2003
24
as Jibraan Al-Zarian
2001
24
as Safa
2001
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
as Chandru 'Dru' Kambhatla
2000
Family Guy
as Mahmoud (voice)
1999
Family Guy
as Faisal (voice)
1999