Fahim Fazli

Fahim Fazli (Dari: فهیم فاضلی ; born May 30, 1966) is an Afghan American film actor, motivational speaker and author.

Fazli is the most successful Afghan-Born American Actor in Hollywood due to the popularity of the Hollywood films he has starred in since 1999.

Fazli was born into a Tajik family in Kabul, Afghanistan. He left Afghanistan and settled in California, United States in the 1980’s due to the Soviet-Afghan War.

He returned to Afghanistan as an interpreter and as a cultural advisor during tours with the U.S. Marines in 2009 and 2010. After returning, he wrote a memoir, Fahim Speaks that was released in early 2012.