Biography
He is best known for his starring role as Dr. Julian Bashir in the long-running series Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. He made his feature film debut in Stephen Frears’ comedy Sammie and Rosie Get Laid. More recently, Siddig has been seen in Neil Marshall’s Doomsday, Stephen Gaghan’s political thriller, Syriana, starring George Clooney, Reign of Fire, Ridley Scott’s epic Kingdom of Heaven, the action-adventure Vertical Limit, and BBC’s provocative series Spooks.
Siddig was born in the Sudan and raised there until political turmoil forced his British mother to flee to the U.K. where she sent for him a short time later. Siddig attended university to study geography and anthropology, thinking the future ability to help his native country might lie in the sciences, not on the stage. But during school, he became interested in acting and directing and left university to begin studies at the prestigious London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts.
Being one of the few trained dramatic actors of Arabic descent in London at the time, he was soon cast as a young Palestinian in the television miniseries, The Big Battalions, which led to his winning role as Faisal in A Dangerous Man: Lawrence After Arabia. That movie was subsequently broadcast on American television and his performance caught the attention of Star Trek's producer, Rick Berman. On stage, Siddig co-starred in the London West End production of Whose Life Is It, Anyway? starring Kim Cattrall.
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Actor
Movies | |
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2023 |
Deliver Us |
2020 |
Skylin3s |
2019 |
21 Bridges |
2017 |
Submergence |
2016 |
Recon (TV movie) |
2013 |
May in the Summer |
2012 |
Inescapable |
2010 |
4.3.2.1 |
Clash of the Titans |
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Miral |
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2009 |
Cairo Time |
Spy(ies) |
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2008 |
Doomsday |
2007 |
A Lost Man |
The Last Legion |
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2006 |
The Nativity Story |
2005 |
Kingdom of Heaven |
Syriana |
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2004 |
The Hamburg Cell (TV movie) |
2002 |
Reign of Fire |
2000 |
Vertical Limit |
1990 |
Dangerous Man: Lawrence After Arabia, A (TV movie) |
1987 |
Sammy and Rosie Get Laid |
Documentaries | |
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2018 |
What We Left Behind: Looking Back at Star Trek: Deep Space Nine |
2015 |
Egyptian Vice (TV movie) - narrator |
2014 |
Cosmos: A SpaceTime Odyssey (series) |
2013 |
Wild Arabia (series) |
2011 |
Faisal, Legacy of a King - narrator |
2008 |
Anatomy of Catastrophe: The Making of 'Doomsday' |
2006 |
Behind the Scenes: Agatha Christie's Poirot (TV movie) |
Colors of the Crusade |
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Hannibal: Rome's Worst Nightmare (TV movie) |
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The Path to Redemption |
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Unholy War: Mounting the Siege |
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1993 |
'Star Trek: Deep Space Nine': Behind the Scenes |
Short | |
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2017 |
Baby Mine |
2008 |
The Boundary |
Director
Series | |
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1998 |
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine |
Profit and Lace (S06E23) |
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1997 |
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine |
Business as Usual (S05E18) |
Guest
Shows | |
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2012 |
MSN Exclusives |
2011 |
Bar Rescue |
2007 |
Xposé |
1971 |
Film '72 |