---
name: "Elham Ehsas"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/elham-ehsas"
fi1m_id: "elham-ehsas"
imdb_id: "nm2799427"
tmdb_id: 1010819
wikidata_id: "Q98446195"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "1 December 1990"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_fi1m_score: 62
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-10-01T20:06:06.445533+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."
---

# Elham Ehsas

## Identity

Elham Ehsas

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/elham-ehsas
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** elham-ehsas
- **IMDb ID:** nm2799427
- **TMDB ID:** 1010819
- **Wikidata ID:** Q98446195
- **Same entity:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q98446195, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2799427/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1010819

Actor. Born 1 December 1990 in Kabul, Afghanistan.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 1 December 1990, Kabul, Afghanistan
- **Active:** 2007–present
- **Also known as:** Elham Elas
- **Average Fi1m score:** 62, as actor, over 2 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 2000s 60 (1), 2010s 64 (1)
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q98446195, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2799427/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1010819

## Streaming the US now

- **Pluto TV:** [*The Kite Runner*](https://film.one/film/the-kite-runner.md) (60)

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## Biography

Elham Ehsas is an actor, writer and director. He made his screen debut as Young Assef in the film *The Kite Runner* (2007).

His subsequent film roles include Translator Kenny in *War Machine* (2017), Shoaib in *The Kill Team* (2019), Hamid Gul in *Attack* (2022) and Rahim in *Fuze* (2025). On television he has appeared as Jalal Haqqani in *Homeland* (2020), Sebastian Modena in *Shantaram* (2022), Asif Syed in *Unforgotten* (2025) and Edward in *The Agency* (2024). He has also performed on stage in productions of *The Jungle* at the Young Vic, in the West End and in New York.

Ehsas wrote and directed the short film *Yellow* (2023), which received a BAFTA nomination for Best British Short Film.

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

## On Fi1m (2)

- *Unforgotten* (2015), Fi1m 64, as Asif Syed — [page](https://film.one/tv/unforgotten.md)
- *The Kite Runner* (2007), Fi1m 60, as Young Assef — [page](https://film.one/film/the-kite-runner.md)

## Complete filmography (18)

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

- *Forgotten Spaceman* (2026), Director, Writer, Editor
- *Fuze* (2025), as Rahim
- *There Will Come Soft Rains* (2025), Director, Writer
- *The Agency* (2024), series, as Edward
- *Yellow* (2023), Director, Writer, Editor, Producer
- *Shantaram* (2022), series, as Sebastian Modena
- *Attack* (2022), as Hamid Gul
- *Photo Booth* (2022), as Feras
- *Your Hand Found Mine* (2021), Editor, Director
- *The Kill Team* (2019), as Shoaib
- *Our Kind of Love* (2018), as Harun · Director, Writer
- *Oksijan* (2018), as Jawad
- *War Machine* (2017), as Translator Kenny
- *Unforgotten* (2015), series, as Asif Syed — Fi1m 64, [page](https://film.one/tv/unforgotten.md)
- *Homeland* (2011), series, as Jalal Haqqani — Fi1m 78, [page](https://film.one/tv/homeland.md)
- *The Kite Runner* (2007), as Young Assef — Fi1m 60, [page](https://film.one/film/the-kite-runner.md)
- *Silent Witness* (1996), series, as Ittak Khoury
- *Our Kind of Love*, Director, Writer

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