Omid Abtahi (Persian: امید ابطحی; born July 12, 1979) is an Iranian-born American actor. He is best known for his roles as Salim in Starz Original American Gods, Penn Pershing in The Mandalorian on Disney+, Saleem Ulman in NCIS on Paramount+, and Homes in the fourth installment of The Hunger Games film series, The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2. He is also known for his performances as Justin Yates in Ghost Whisperer on CBS and Detective Jerry Molbeck in the American TV adaptation of Those Who Kill on A&E.

Filmography

• The Chosen Adventures — Kato the Augur (voice), Vendor (voice)
• The Mighty Nein — Dead Eye / Bartender (voice)
• Rock, Paper, Scissors — Pharaoh Atraxes / Camel 2 (voice)
• Tracker — Harith Holmes
• City on Fire — Det. Ali Parsa
• Marvel's Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur — Ahmed (voice), Additional Voices (voice)
• Kung Fu Panda: The Dragon Knight — Alfie / Knight (voice), Alfie (voice)
• Dan Brown's The Lost Symbol
• 2021Justice Society: World War II — Hawkman (voice)
• Fast & Furious Spy Racers — Sandocal
• Love, Death & Robots — Wes (voice)
• The Boys — Sameer Shah
• The Mandalorian — Dr. Penn Pershing
• FBI — Faheem Ellahie
• American Gods — Salim
• DuckTales — D'jinn (voice)
• 2017Window Horses: The Poetic Persian Epiphany of Rosie Ming — Ramin (voice)
• Damien — Amani Golkar
• Better Call Saul — Detective Abbasi
• Fear the Walking Dead — Howard
• 2015The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2 — Homes
• We Bare Bears — Additional Voices (voice)
• 2014Boys of Abu Ghraib — Ghazi Hammoud
• Legends — Bashir Al-Kanazer
• Madam Secretary — Deputy Minister Amin Hamadani
• State of Affairs — Rayst Kamal
• 2012Argo — Reza Borhani
• Revolution — Captain Riley
• 2011Hide — Neil
• Homeland — Raqim Faisel
• Shameless — Sameer
• Hawaii Five-0 — Naser Salaam
• 2010Space Chimps 2: Zartog Strikes Back — Dr. Jagu / Reporter #2 (voice)
• Archer — (voice)
• 2009Brothers — Yusuf
• Castle — Rasheed Waqas
• 2009Diplomacy — American Interpreter
• FlashForward — Ed Fiore
• NCIS: Los Angeles — Ari Sayed
• The Good Wife — Samir
• Eli Stone — Amir Khan
• Fringe — Simon Philips
• My Own Worst Enemy — Tony Nazari
• 2008Ocean of Pearls — Amrit Singh
• 2008Space Chimps — Dr. Jagu (voice)
• Star Wars: The Clone Wars — Cadet Amis (voice), Amis / Mandalorian Super Commando (voice)
• Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles — Sumner
• 2008The Last Lullaby — Van
• The Mentalist — Markham Shankar
• 2008The Mysteries of Pittsburgh — Mohammed
• 2006Running with Scissors — Restaurant Manager
• The Unit — The Boss
• Bones — Hal Shirazi
• Ghost Whisperer — Justin Yates
• Grey's Anatomy — Aasif
• Over There — Pfc. Tariq Nassiri
• Sleeper Cell — Salim
• NCIS — Saleem Ulman
• 24 — Jibraan Al-Zarian, Safa
• CSI: Crime Scene Investigation — Chandru 'Dru' Kambhatla
• Family Guy — Mahmoud (voice), Faisal (voice)

Appearances as themselves (2)

• Disney Gallery / Star Wars: The Mandalorian — Self
• 2016Damien: Behind the Scenes — Self