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Ramsey Faragallah

Acting

Born January 21, 1964 · Los Angeles, California, USA

Biography

Ramsey Faragallah is an actor, writer, voice over artist & teacher. Onstage he has appeared at the Kennedy Center, The Public Theater, Playwrights Horizons, Manhattan Theater Club, Rikers Island and other minimum and maximum security prisons, Yale University, Sundance, Woolley Mammoth, The Guthrie Theater, American Repertory Theater, Oregon Shakespeare, Play Co, The McCarter, The Culture Project, Williamstown, Hartford Stage, Red Bull, New York Stage & Film, The New Vic (London) and numerous theaters internationally. His many television appearances include recurring and guest star roles in Tommy, Bull, Mozart in the Jungle, Taken, Madame Secretary, The Black List, Homeland, and the Law & Order trifecta, He has worked alongside Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, Nicole Kidman, Sean Penn, Susan Sarandon, George Clooney, Kenneth Branagh and appeared in the films of Sidney Pollack, Sidney Lumet and several films of Woody Allen among others and is in the upcoming Rupert Wyatt epic Desert Warrior. Voice over work for Radio Lab, This American Life, Playing on Air, NOVA, Random House, Penguin and & thirteen seasons on the Late Show with David Letterman. Ramsey studied with Ms. Stella Adler, is a member of The Actors Center. He enjoys shooting skeet, trap and sporting clays and is enthusiastically dedicated to restoring, driving & racing vintage automobiles-sometimes even legally.

Filmography42 titles

The Sopranos

1999as Fed #1

Person of Interest

2011as ' Farooq Madan

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

1999as Dr. Sandip

Flight of the Conchords

2007as John

Third Watch

1999as Maharabian

Blue Bloods

2010as Imam

Manifest

2018as Nazir Tehrani

The Blacklist

2013as Ali Hassan

Homeland

2011as Mansour Al-Zahrani

The Good Wife

2009as Ben

Law & Order: Criminal Intent

2001as Randy

Tommy

2020as Shiekh Fayed

Mozart in the Jungle

2014as Daniel Mahajan

The Unusuals

2009as Sanjay Ghani

Army Wives

2007as Sheik Jaffar Al-Kahlid

30 Rock

2006as Sheik

Law & Order

1990as Dr. Supay

Unforgettable

2011as Mr. Al-Bayati

Bull

2016as Henry Wakefield

Madam Secretary

2014as Omar Arif

Uptown Girls

2003as Limo Driver

Search Party

2016as Milad

The Curse of the Jade Scorpion

2001as Fingerprint Detective

Taken

2017as Zev

Hollywood Ending

2002as Audition Reader

Small Time Crooks

2000as Potters' Waiter

Falling Water

2016as Aeskyton Counselor

Life on Mars

2008as Raimes' Lawyer

Our Son

2023as Judge Reynolds

The Interpreter

2005as Polygraph Technician

The Greatest

2009as Dr. Shamban

Strip Search

2004as Abdul Amin

Riddles of the Sphinx

2010as (voice)

Celebrity

1998as TV Program Director

The Peacemaker

1997as New York Cabbie

Desert Warrior

2025as Ibn Qabisah

Kevin Can Wait

2016as Bill

State of Affairs

2014as General Abu Said Khan

Coming Soon

1999as Wahid

People I Know

2002as David Fielding

Ed's Next Move

1996as Dr. Banarjee

Little Spirit: Christmas in New York

2008as Hot Dog Vendor (voice)