Omid Djalili

Omid Djalili
Djalili at the 2010 Tribeca Film Festival
Born	(1965-09-30) 30 September 1965 (age 51) Chelsea, London, England
Medium	Film, stand-up, television
Years active	1995–present
Subject(s)	Religion, race, culture, stereotypes, human interaction
Spouse	Annabel Knight (1992-present)
Children	3

Omid Djalili (Persian: امید جلیلی‎‎; born 30 September 1965) is a British stand-up comedian, actor, television producer, voice actor and writer of Iranian origin.

Djalili was born in Chelsea, London, to Iranian Bahá'í parents and is a Bahá'í himself. He attended Holland Park School and then the University of Ulster in Coleraine, Northern Ireland, studying English and Theatre studies.

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.

He has performed in numerous countries, including Australia, Ireland, Sweden, Belgium, Canada and the United States, where he had his own HBO Special and did 22 episodes of the NBC sitcom Whoopi with Whoopi Goldberg.