---
name: "Cyrus Nowrasteh"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/cyrus-nowrasteh"
fi1m_id: "cyrus-nowrasteh"
imdb_id: "nm0637493"
tmdb_id: 110618
wikidata_id: "Q1148979"
roles: ["Writer"]
born: "19 September 1956"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-23T11:51:17.444489+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Cyrus Nowrasteh

## Identity

Cyrus Nowrasteh

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/cyrus-nowrasteh
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** cyrus-nowrasteh
- **IMDb ID:** nm0637493
- **TMDB ID:** 110618
- **Wikidata ID:** Q1148979
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyrus_Nowrasteh, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1148979, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0637493/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/110618

Writer. Born 19 September 1956 in Boulder, Colorado, USA.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Born:** 19 September 1956, Boulder, Colorado, USA
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyrus_Nowrasteh, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1148979, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0637493/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/110618

## Coming up

- *Dark Horse* (2026-11-19), Director

## Streaming the US now

- **Apple TV:** [*Hawaii Five-0*](https://film.one/tv/hawaii-five-0.md) (65)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Cyrus Nowrasteh is an American screenwriter, director and producer. He was born on 19 September 1956 in Boulder, Colorado, and graduated from the USC School of Cinematic Arts.

Nowrasteh began his career writing for the series *The Equalizer* (1985). He later worked on *Falcon Crest*, wrote the pilot for *La Femme Nikita* (1997) and an episode of the miniseries *Into the West* (2005). He wrote three episodes of *Hawaii Five-0* (2010) and served as consulting producer on twelve more. His feature films as director and screenwriter include *The Stoning of Soraya M.* (2009), *The Young Messiah* (2016), *Infidel* (2019) and *Sarah's Oil* (2025).

He wrote and produced the controversial 2006 ABC miniseries *The Path to 9/11*. Nowrasteh is married to writer and producer Betsy Giffen Nowrasteh.

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

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Hawaii Five-0* (2010), Fi1m 65, Writer — [page](https://film.one/tv/hawaii-five-0.md)

## Complete filmography (16)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Dark Horse* (2026), Director, Screenplay
- *Sarah's Oil* (2025), Producer, Screenplay, Director
- *Infidel* (2019), Writer, Director, Producer
- *The Young Messiah* (2016), Director, Screenplay
- *Hawaii Five-0* (2010), series, Writer — Fi1m 65, [page](https://film.one/tv/hawaii-five-0.md)
- *The Stoning of Soraya M.* (2009), Director, Screenplay
- *The Path to 9/11* (2006), series, Producer, Writer
- *Into the West* (2005), series, Writer
- *10,000 Black Men Named George* (2002), Writer
- *The Day Reagan Was Shot* (2001), Writer, Director
- *Norma Jean, Jack, and Me* (1998), Director, Writer
- *The Advocate's Devil* (1997), Teleplay
- *La Femme Nikita* (1997), series, Writer
- *The Interview* (1995), Writer
- *Veiled Threat* (1989), Director
- *The Equalizer* (1985), series, Writer

## Gallery

- ![A picture of Cyrus Nowrasteh and Betsy Giffen Nowrasteh (2017)](https://film.one/media/person/1311873/gallery-c9c9969252ac.jpg) A picture of Cyrus Nowrasteh and Betsy Giffen Nowrasteh (2017) — Oldmanmoney, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7d/Cyrus_Nowrasteh_%28cropped%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Cyrus Nowrasteh](https://film.one/media/person/1311873/gallery-a5ad2ab833fc.jpg) Cyrus Nowrasteh — Mpower Pictures, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5e/Cyrus_Nowrasteh_2008.jpg/1280px-Cyrus_Nowrasteh_2008.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![A picture of Cyrus Nowrasteh and Betsy Giffen Nowrasteh (2017)](https://film.one/media/person/1311873/gallery-6454e70ac1af.jpg) A picture of Cyrus Nowrasteh and Betsy Giffen Nowrasteh (2017) — Oldmanmoney, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fc/Cyrus_Nowrasteh_and_Betsy_Giffen_Nowrasteh.jpg/1280px-Cyrus_Nowrasteh_and_Betsy_Giffen_Nowrasteh.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)

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