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Arian Moayed (Persian: آرین مؤید, born April 15, 1980) is an Iranian-American actor, writer, and director. Moayed received a Tony Award nomination for Best Featured Actor in a Play for his performance in Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo[1][2][3] and also starred in the Tony Award-winning The Humans. Moayed gained prominence for his role as Stewy Hosseini in HBO's Succession and Todd Spodek in Netflix’s Inventing Anna, as well as his portrayal of Agent P. Cleary in the Marvel Cinematic Universe film Spider-Man: No Way Home and Disney+ series Ms. Marvel.

Arian Moayed
Born	(1980-04-15) April 15, 1980 (age 42) Tehran, Iran
Alma mater	Indiana University (B.A.)
Occupation	Actor, writer, director
Years active	2002–present
Spouse	Krissy Shields
Children	2

Early life

Moayed was born in Tehran, Iran. His father is a banker by profession. His parents immigrated from Iran in 1986. The family settled in Glenview, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago, when Moayed was five years old. He speaks Persian.[4]

Moayed graduated from Glenbrook South High School in 1998. He then received a bachelor's degree from Indiana University in 2002. During college, he appeared in plays by Samuel Beckett, Carlo Goldoni and William Shakespeare.[1]

Career

Moayed moved to Manhattan after college.[2] In 2002, Moayed and director Tom Ridgely, who was Moayed's roommate at Indiana University,[2] co-founded the Waterwell, a theater, education and film company based out of New York.[1][2] Waterwell has produced more than a dozen stage productions and shows since the theater was established.[1]

He portrayed the character of Musa in Rajiv Joseph's Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo, where Moayed appeared opposite Robin Williams.[1] Moayed received a Tony Award nomination for Best Featured Actor in a Play for his portrayal of Musa at the 65th Tony Awards in 2011.[1] He also received a Drama League Award nomination and received a Theater World Award.

As a writer/director, Moayed wrote and directed his first short Overdue, which premiered at the Cinequest Film Festival and was released on The Business of Being Born website. His second film, Day Ten, stars Omar Metwally and is about the days after September 11, 2001, premiering at the Tribeca Film Festival.

In 2016, he starred as Babur, one of two characters in Guards at the Taj, a play written by Rajiv Joseph, alongside Omar Metwally as Humayun. For his performance, he received a 2016 Obie Award presented by the American Theatre Wing and The Village Voice.

In 2017, Moayed starred as Richard Saad in Stephen Karam's The Humans, which performed at the Roundabout Theater off-Broadway, Helen Hayes Theater and Gerald Schoenfeld Theater on Broadway as well as the Hampstead Theater in London, United Kingdom. The production was directed by Joe Mantello and produced by Scott Rudin and garnered Moayed a Drama Desk Award, Drama League Award and a Tony Award for Best Play.

Since 2018, Moayed has starred as Stewy Hosseini in HBO's Succession.

Waterwell

Waterwell focuses on socially conscious and civic minded approach to theater, education, and film. Waterwell mission states, "empower its audience to change their lives and the world in which they live."

As the co-founder of Waterwell, Moayed has helped devise over a dozen original productions including most recently a dual-language Hamlet (played the title role) to critical acclaim. Also with Waterwell, Moayed produced a forgotten war musical called Blueprint Specials, produced on board of the Intrepid with a cast of veterans.[5]

With Waterwell Films, he has written and directed the Emmy nominated[6] and Webby nominated The Accidental Wolf, a premium short form series starring Kelli O'Hara, Laurie Metcalf, Denis O'Hare, Brandon Dirden, Ben McKenzie, Judith Ivey, Reed Birney, Marsha Stephanie Blake and a cast of over 70 Tony nominations on its own platform, theaccidentalwolf.com.

Personal life

He lives in New York City with his wife, Krissy Shields and two daughters.[1][2]

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2003	Phileine Says Sorry	Taxichauffeur 2
2007	Arranged	Ahmed Khaldi
2008	The Christians	Darmon
2011	Roadie	Irfan
2014	Appropriate Behavior	Ali
	Rosewater	Hamid
	Saint Janet	Dr. Apte
2015	The Rumperbutts	Gavin
	Rock the Kasbah	Riza
2019	Abe	Amir
2021	Spider-Man: No Way Home	Agent Cleary
TBA	Retribution	TBA	Post-production
	Beth & Don	TBA	Filming

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2003–2004	Late Night with Conan O'Brien	Various	3 episodes
2004–2010	Law & Order: Criminal Intent	Samil Al-Bana / Eli Gold	2 episodes
2005	Law & Order	Fadi Abu Ubdeh	Episode: "Bible Story"
2006	Six Degrees	Jay	Episode: "A New Light"
2007	Law & Order: Special Victims Unit	Amal Qinawi	Episode: "Philadelphia"
	M.O.N.Y.	Ates Kiliclioglu	NBC pilot
2009	White Collar	Avet	Episode: "Threads"
2013	The Following	David	2 episodes
2014	Believe	Corey	7 episodes
	Black Box	Cyrus	Episode: "The Fear"
2015	The Blacklist	Burke	Episode: "Ruslan Denisov (No. 67)"
	Elementary	Yusuf Al Shamsi	Episode: "Absconded"
2017	Mr. Mercedes	Augie	Episode: "Pilot"
2017–2019	Madam Secretary	Mohammed "Mo" Alwash	11 episodes
2018–present	Succession	Stewy Hosseini	Main role (15 episodes)
2021	Love Life	Kian Parsa	6 episodes
2022	Inventing Anna	Todd Spodek	9 episodes
2022	Ms. Marvel	Agent Cleary	3 episodes

References

External links

• Arian Moayed at IMDb
• Waterwell

На других языках

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Arian Moayed (* 15. April 1980 im Iran[1]) ist ein US-amerikanischer Schauspieler, Autor und Regisseur.

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[es] Arian Moayed

Arian Moayed (en persa, آرین مؤید, Teherán, 15 de abril de 1980) es un actor, escritor y director iraní. Moayed recibió una nominación al Premio Tony como Mejor actor protagonista de una obra de teatro por su interpretación en Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo [1][2][3] y también protagonizó la obra de teatro ganadora de un Premoo Tony, The Humans. Moayed adquirió notoriedad por su papel de Stewy Hosseini en Succession de HBO, y más tarde como Todd Spodek en Inventing Anna de Netflix.

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