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Cas Anvar
Cas Anvar (Persian: کاس انور; born 15 March 1966) is a Canadian actor known best for his role in the SyFy/Amazon Prime Video science fiction television series The Expanse.
Anvar was born in Regina, Saskatchewan, to Iranian parents. They moved to Montreal, Quebec, where he was raised. He graduated from Beaconsfield High School in 1983.
He became interested in acting after playing Hamlet in a high school production of Shakespeare's play. Anvar has said that after early studies of psychology and sciences at McGill University, he changed fields and graduated from the National Theatre School in 1989.
He was founding artistic director of Repercussion Theatre. Anvar told CBC Radio's Saskatoon Morning that he founded the company in order to avoid being typecast, so that he could cast himself in the roles he wanted to play. Since 1988 the company toured parks of Montreal, and then throughout North America, with the annual Shakespeare in the Park Festival. Meanwhile, he continued performing in theatre.
In 1992, he debuted in Urban Angel, and has continued to perform roles in television and film.
Anvar starred as journalist Kambiz Foroohar in the 2003 film Shattered Glass.
Anvar guest-starred in an episode of NCIS that premiered in 2007.
In 2011, he voiced Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad in Assassin's Creed: Revelations. In the same year, he co-starred with Jake Gyllenhaal in the science fiction film Source Code.
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Cas Anvar
Cas Anvar (Persian: کاس انور; born 15 March 1966) is a Canadian actor known best for his role in the SyFy/Amazon Prime Video science fiction television series The Expanse.
Anvar was born in Regina, Saskatchewan, to Iranian parents. They moved to Montreal, Quebec, where he was raised. He graduated from Beaconsfield High School in 1983.
He became interested in acting after playing Hamlet in a high school production of Shakespeare's play. Anvar has said that after early studies of psychology and sciences at McGill University, he changed fields and graduated from the National Theatre School in 1989.
He was founding artistic director of Repercussion Theatre. Anvar told CBC Radio's Saskatoon Morning that he founded the company in order to avoid being typecast, so that he could cast himself in the roles he wanted to play. Since 1988 the company toured parks of Montreal, and then throughout North America, with the annual Shakespeare in the Park Festival. Meanwhile, he continued performing in theatre.
In 1992, he debuted in Urban Angel, and has continued to perform roles in television and film.
Anvar starred as journalist Kambiz Foroohar in the 2003 film Shattered Glass.
Anvar guest-starred in an episode of NCIS that premiered in 2007.
In 2011, he voiced Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad in Assassin's Creed: Revelations. In the same year, he co-starred with Jake Gyllenhaal in the science fiction film Source Code.
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