Acting · Los Angeles, California, USA · Born January 21, 1964
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.
MovieDesert Warrior
2026
as Ibn Qabisah
MovieOur Son
2023
as Judge Reynolds
TVTommy
2020
as Shiekh Fayed
TVManifest
2018
as Nazir Tehrani
MoviePrice for Freedom
2017
as Isaac
TVTaken
2017
as Zev
TVSearch Party
2016
as Milad
TVFalling Water
2016
as Aeskyton Counselor
TVBull
2016
as Henry Wakefield
TVKevin Can Wait
2016
as Bill
TVState of Affairs
2014
as General Abu Said Khan
TVMadam Secretary
2014
as Omar Arif
TVMozart in the Jungle
2014
as Daniel Mahajan
Daughter
2013
as Mustafa
TVThe Blacklist
2013
as Ali Hassan
MovieKing Kelly
2012
as Liquor Store Clerk
TVNYC 22
2012
as Sameer Al-Harani
TVHomeland
2011
as Mansour Al-Zahrani
TVPerson of Interest
2011
as ' Farooq Madan
TVUnforgettable
2011
as Mr. Al-Bayati
Baby Blue
2010
as Wally
TVBlue Bloods
2010
as Imam
MovieRiddles of the Sphinx
2010
as (voice)
TVThe Good Wife
2009
as Ben
The Standard Man
2009
as King
TVThe Unusuals
2009
as Sanjay Ghani
MovieThe Greatest
2009
as Dr. Shamban
MovieLittle Spirit: Christmas in New York
2008
as Hot Dog Vendor (voice)
TVLife on Mars
2008
as Raimes' Lawyer
TVFlight of the Conchords
2007
as John
TVArmy Wives
2007
as Sheik Jaffar Al-Kahlid
MovieThe Warrior Class
2007
as Dr. Patel
TV30 Rock
2006
as Sheik
MovieThe Interpreter
2005
as Polygraph Technician
MovieStrip Search
2004
as Abdul Amin
TVHope & Faith
2003
as Guard
MovieUptown Girls
2003
as Limo Driver
MoviePeople I Know
2002
as David Fielding
MovieHollywood Ending
2002
as Audition Reader
TVLaw & Order: Criminal Intent
2001
as Taras Broidy
MovieThe Curse of the Jade Scorpion
2001
as Fingerprint Detective
TVThe Job
2001
as Fleshy Guy
TVWelcome to New York
2000
as Shrihari
MovieSmall Time Crooks
2000
as Potters' Waiter
TVThird Watch
1999
as Maharabian
TVLaw & Order: Special Victims Unit
1999
as Rudy Singh
MovieComing Soon
1999
as Wahid
TVThe Sopranos
1999
as Fed #1
MovieCelebrity
1998
as TV Program Director
TVSoldier of Fortune, Inc.
1997
MovieThe Peacemaker
1997
as New York Cabbie
MovieEd's Next Move
1996
as Dr. Banarjee
MovieInsomnia
1994
as Lunatic Ice Skater
TVLaw & Order
1990
as Samir Hamed
