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Summary::Siddig El Tahir El Fadil El Siddig El Abderahman El Mohammed Ahmed El Abdel Karim El Mahdi (Arabic: صدّيق الطاهر الفاضل الصدّيق عبدالرحمن محمد أحمد عبدالكريم المهدي; born 21 November 1965) is a Sudanese-born English actor, also known as Siddig El Fadil and Alexander Siddig. He is known for playing Dr Julian Bashir in the television series Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, and for his performance as Prince Nasir Al-Subaai in the film Syriana (2005). He recently guest starred on 24 as Hamri Al-Assad.

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John Hatcher

Fouad Saleh

Theodorus Andronikus

The Archangel Gabriel

Nasir

Prince Nasir Al-Subaai

Ajay

Kareem Nazir

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Son, Django El Tahir El Siddig, born. [16 September 1996]

Grew up in England where he Attended London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts.

Originally credited as "Siddig El Fadil", he changed his professional name to "Alexander Siddig" because (as reported by him at Star Trek conventions) nobody could pronounce "El Fadil".

One of his uncles (his father's brother) was the Sudanese prime minister. Another one (his mother's brother) is Malcolm McDowell.

He was at one time considered for the role of Benjamin Sisko, the station commander of "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine" (1993). However, he was apparently considered too young. The role eventually went to Avery Brooks. However, the producers were impressed enough with Siddig and offered him the role of Dr. Julian Bashir.

Cousin of Lilly McDowell and Charlie McDowell.

Son Django was born around 11pm. After spending all night with his son and wife, Siddig went to work at "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine" (1993) the following day at 5:30am to continuing filming the episode "Let He Who Is Without Sin".

Fellow "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine" (1993) cast member Andrew Robinson is the godfather of Siddig's son Django.

Shares a birthday with Björk, Goldie Hawn, Rachel Rogers, Nicollette Sheridan, & Juliet Mills

In 2005, he appeared in two films set in the Middle East, Kingdom of Heaven (2005) and Syriana (2005). In both films, he played a character named Nasir.

Ex-brother-in-law of Ian Tucker and Zan Charisse.

Ex-son-in-law of Robert Tucker.

His "Star Trek: DS9" character Dr. Bashir has been seen as having similar high moral values as the real life Middle Eastern Doctor Bashar, featured in Time Magazine, in 2003.

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