Ramsey Faragallah
Born: 1964-01-21 in Los Angeles, California, USA
Known For: Acting
Biography
Ramsey Faragallah is an actor, writer, voice over artist & teacher. Onstage he has appeared at the Kennedy Center, The Public Theater, Playwrights Horizons, Manhattan Theater Club, Rikers Island and other minimum and maximum security prisons, Yale University, Sundance, Woolley Mammoth, The Guthrie Theater, American Repertory Theater, Oregon Shakespeare, Play Co, The McCarter, The Culture Project, Williamstown, Hartford Stage, Red Bull, New York Stage & Film, The New Vic (London) and numerous theaters internationally. His many television appearances include recurring and guest star roles in Tommy, Bull, Mozart in the Jungle, Taken, Madame Secretary, The Black List, Homeland, and the Law & Order trifecta, He has worked alongside Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, Nicole Kidman, Sean Penn, Susan Sarandon, George Clooney, Kenneth Branagh and appeared in the films of Sidney Pollack, Sidney Lumet and several films of Woody Allen among others and is in the upcoming Rupert Wyatt epic Desert Warrior. Voice over work for Radio Lab, This American Life, Playing on Air, NOVA, Random House, Penguin and & thirteen seasons on the Late Show with David Letterman. Ramsey studied with Ms. Stella Adler, is a member of The Actors Center. He enjoys shooting skeet, trap and sporting clays and is enthusiastically dedicated to restoring, driving & racing vintage automobiles-sometimes even legally.
Filmography
2025
2023
- Our Son as Judge Reynolds
2020
- Tommy as Shiekh Fayed
2018
- Manifest as Nazir Tehrani
2017
- Taken as Zev
- Price for Freedom as Isaac
2016
- Bull as Henry Wakefield
- Search Party as Milad
- Kevin Can Wait as Bill
- Falling Water as Aeskyton Counselor
2014
- Madam Secretary as Omar Arif
- Mozart in the Jungle as Daniel Mahajan
- State of Affairs as General Abu Said Khan
2013
- The Blacklist as Ali Hassan
- Daughter as Mustafa
2012
- NYC 22 as Sameer Al-Harani
- King Kelly as Liquor Store Clerk
2011
- Homeland as Mansour Al-Zahrani
- Person of Interest as ' Farooq Madan
- Unforgettable as Mr. Al-Bayati
2010
- Blue Bloods as Imam
- Baby Blue as Wally
- Riddles of the Sphinx as (voice)
2009
- The Good Wife as Ben
- The Greatest as Dr. Shamban
- The Unusuals as Sanjay Ghani
- The Standard Man as King
2008
- Life on Mars as Raimes' Lawyer
- Little Spirit: Christmas in New York as Hot Dog Vendor (voice)
2007
- Army Wives as Sheik Jaffar Al-Kahlid
- Flight of the Conchords as John
- The Warrior Class as Dr. Patel
2006
- 30 Rock as Sheik
2005
- The Interpreter as Polygraph Technician
2004
- Strip Search as Abdul Amin
2003
- Hope & Faith as Guard
- Uptown Girls as Limo Driver
2002
- Hollywood Ending as Audition Reader
- People I Know as David Fielding
2001
- Law & Order: Criminal Intent as Taras Broidy
- The Job as Fleshy Guy
- The Curse of the Jade Scorpion as Fingerprint Detective
2000
- Small Time Crooks as Potters' Waiter
- Welcome to New York as Shrihari
1999
- Law & Order: Special Victims Unit as Rudy Singh
- The Sopranos as Fed #1
- Third Watch as Maharabian
- Coming Soon as Wahid
1998
- Celebrity as TV Program Director
1997
- The Peacemaker as New York Cabbie
- Soldier of Fortune, Inc.
1996
- Ed's Next Move as Dr. Banarjee
1994
- Insomnia as Lunatic Ice Skater
1990
- Law & Order as Samir Hamed