| 1 | [[quoteright:232:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/3031cd11624bb1074c01096c5ca40dc9.jpg]] |
| 2 | ->''"I think if you're good and you can persuade people you're going to be able to do that role and ultimately the audience buys it, then it doesn't matter whether you were really a chimpanzee in disguise! You've done it."'' |
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| 4 | [[OverlyLongName Siddig El Tahir El Fadil El Siddig Abderrahman Mohammed Ahmed Abdel Karim El Mahdi]] (Arabic: صدّيق الطاهر الفاضل الصدّيق عبدالرحمن محمد أحمد عبدالكريم المهدي Ṣiddīq aṭ-Ṭāhir al-Fāḍil aṣ-Ṣiddīq ʿAbd ur-Raḥman Muḥammad ʾAḥmad ʿAbd ul-Karīm al-Mahdī; born 21 November 1965 in Omdurman, Sudan) is a Sudanese-born British actor. |
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| 6 | He was known by the stage name Siddig El Fadil through the mid-1990s, and Alexander Siddig since (though outside of credits, he usually goes by the nickname 'Sid'). He is known for playing Dr. Julian Bashir in the television series ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'', but has plenty of high-profile film and television roles under his belt due to his engaging performances and mastery of accents. He is the {{Trope Namer|s}} (kinda) for EstrogenBrigade, as his was the first to be created online, back in 1993. The second was Creator/PatrickStewart. |
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| 8 | Through his mother's side of the family he is the nephew of actor Creator/MalcolmMcDowell. His father is a great-grandson of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muhammad_Ahmad Muhammad Ahmad,]] a famous 19th century Sudanese religious and RebelLeader, and one of his uncles, [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sadiq_al-Mahdi Sadiq al-Mahdi,]] was prime minister of Sudan twice. He was married to and has a son with ''[=DS9=]'' co-star Creator/NanaVisitor, though they divorced in 2001. |
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| 11 | !!Film Roles |
| 12 | * 2000 ''Film/VerticalLimit'' as Kareem Nazir |
| 13 | * 2002 ''Film/ReignOfFire'' as Ajay |
| 14 | * 2005 ''Film/KingdomOfHeaven'' as Imad ad-Din al-Isfahani |
| 15 | * 2005 ''Film/{{Syriana}}'' as Prince Nasir Al-Subaai |
| 16 | * 2008 ''Film/{{Doomsday}}'' as Hatcher |
| 17 | * 2009 ''Film/CairoTime'' as Tareq Khalifa |
| 18 | * 2010 ''Film/{{Clash of the Titans|2010}}'' as Hermes |
| 19 | * 2012 ''Film/{{Inescapable}}'' as Adib |
| 20 | * 2013 ''Film/TheFifthEstate'' as Dr. Tarek Haliseh |
| 21 | * 2019 ''Film/TwentyOneBridges'' as Adi |
| 22 | !!Television Roles |
| 23 | * 1993–1999 ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'' as Lt. (j.g.) / Lt. Julian Bashir, M.D. |
| 24 | * 2007 ''Series/TwentyFour'' as Hamri Al-Assad |
| 25 | * 2010 ''Series/StrikeBack'' as Zahir Sharq |
| 26 | * 2011 ''Series/{{Primeval}}'' as Phillip Burton |
| 27 | * 2013-2014 ''Series/DaVincisDemons'' as Al-Rahim |
| 28 | * 2013 ''Series/{{Atlantis}}'' as King Minos |
| 29 | * 2015-2016 ''Series/GameOfThrones'' as Doran Martell |
| 30 | * 2017 ''Series/TheKennedysAfterCamelot'' as Aristotle Onassis |
| 31 | * 2017-2018 ''Series/{{Gotham}}'' as Comicbook/RasAlGhul |
| 32 | * 2019 ''Series/TheSpy'' as Ahmed Suidani |
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