Pakistani-American Hollywood actor Faran Tahir will be starring in the upcoming seventh season of popular award-winning American TV series Hawaii Five-0 which will be airing in September 2016. Faran will be joining the cast to shoot in Hawaii this weekend.
Hawaii Five-0 is a reboot of the original series, which aired on CBS from 1968 to 1980. It follows the story of detective Steve McGarrett, a decorated Naval officer-turned-cop, who returns to Oahu to investigate his father’s murder and stays after Hawaii’s governor persuades him to head up a new team on his own terms.
Peter Lenkov, Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci are executive producers for CBS Television Studios. The series has been received well by the audiences and critics globally since the first season went on-air. The show has won a number of awards including the Favorite New Drama at the People’s Choice Awards, USA.
Faran, who has just returned after wrapping up the shoot of the upcoming fifth season of Prison Break said, “The last 3 months have been fun location wise for me as an actor as I have been shooting for upcoming Prison Break in Vancouver and then Morocco and now will be heading out to beautiful Hawaii for the show Hawaii Five-0.”
Tahir is a Pakistani-American film and television actor. Tahir is best known for his act as Raza, the leader of a terrorist organisation, “The Ten Rings” in ‘Iron Man’. In 1985, he appeared as Bolshintsov in UC Berkeley’s production of A Month in the Country. He graduated from the University of California, Berkeley, with a BA in Theatre before acquiring a graduate degree from the American Repertory Theatre’s Institute for Advanced Theatre Training at Harvard University.
He made his film debut playing Nathoo in the Disney’s 1994 live-action version of Rudyard Kipling’s ‘The Jungle Book’. He has since appeared in such films as ‘Picture Perfect’, ‘Anywhere But Here’ and ‘Charlie Wilson’s War’. He also played the male lead in the 1999 independent film ‘ABCD’. In 2008, Tahir played the role of the villain Raza in the Marvel Comics-based ‘Iron Man’. He played Starfleet Captain Richard Robau in the 2009 film ‘Star Trek’. In 2013, Tahir played President Patel in the science-fiction film ‘Elysium’.
