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name: "Babak Tafti"
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roles: ["Actor"]
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
updated: "2026-09-16T21:13:26.560399+00:00"
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# Babak Tafti

Actor. Born in Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor

## Biography

Babak Tafti is an Iranian-American actor. He graduated from the Yale School of Drama and began his career in theatre, appearing in productions including *Blood and Gifts* at La Jolla Playhouse and the 2018 Shakespeare in the Park staging of *Othello*.

His television credits include recurring roles as Eduard Asgarov in *Succession* (2019), Emil Michael in *Super Pumped* (2022) and Bradford Luke in *Billions* (2023), as well as Sphinx in *Legacies* (2019–2021). Film roles include Malik in *Terminator Salvation* (2009), an Iraqi prisoner in *In the Valley of Elah* (2007) and Chris in *The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has Passed* (2023). He plays Ali in the 2026 film *Crime 101*.

*Sources: imdb.com, en.wikipedia.org.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Crime 101* (2026), Fi1m 67, as Ali — [page](https://film.one/film/crime-101.md)

## Also known for

- *Terminator Salvation* (2009), Malik
- *Legacies* (2018), Sphinx
- *Orange Is the New Black* (2013), Afghan Trainee Farzad
- *Elementary* (2012), Jonathan Dawson
- *Succession* (2018), Eduard Asgarov
- *In the Valley of Elah* (2007), Iraqi Prisoner
- *New Amsterdam* (2018), Tariq Ali
- *Billions* (2016), Bradford Luke

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