Siddig El Tahir El Fadil El Siddig Abderrahman Mohammed Ahmed Abdel Karim El Mahdi (born November 21, 1965) is a Sudanese-born English actor, also known as Siddig El Fadil and his stage name Alexander Siddig. He is known for playing Dr. Julian Bashir in the television series Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, and for his performances as Prince Nasir Al-Subaai in Syriana (2005) and as Imad ad-Din al-Isfahani in Kingdom of Heaven (2005). He has also guest starred on 24 as Hamri Al-Assad. Siddig co-starred in the award-winning film Cairo Time (2009) as Tareq Khalifa.

Filmography

• Fallen — Clifford Howson
• 2023Deliver Us — Cardinal Russo
• Shantaram — Khader Khan
• Foundation — Advocate Xylas, Dr. Ebling Mis
• Star Wars: The Bad Batch — Senator Avi Singh (voice)
• 2020Skylines — General Radford
• Star Trek: Lower Decks — Dr. Julian Bashir (voice)
• 201921 Bridges — Adi
• The Spy — Ahmed Suidani
• 2018Submergence — Dr. Shadid
• The Kennedys: After Camelot — Aristotle Onassis
• 2016City of Tiny Lights — Al-Dabaran
• 2016Recon
• Tut — Amun
• Cosmos — Isaac Newton (voice)
• Gotham — Ra's al Ghul
• 2014May in the Summer — Ziad
• Atlantis — Minos
• Peaky Blinders — Ruben Oliver
• 2013The Fifth Estate — Dr. Tarek Haliseh
• 2012Inescapable — Adib
• True Love — Ismail
• Game of Thrones — Doran Martell
• 20104.3.2.1 — Mr. Jauo-Pinto
• 2010Clash of the Titans — Hermes
• 2010Miral — Jamal
• Strike Back — Zahir Sharq
• 2009Cairo Time — Tareq Khalifa
• 2009Spy(ies) — Malik
• 2008Doomsday — Prime Minister John Hatcher
• Merlin — Kanen
• 2008The Boundary — Ahmed Ali
• 2007A Lost Man — Fouad Saleh
• Primeval — Philip Burton
• 2007The Last Legion — Theodorus Andronikos
• 2006Hannibal: Rome's Worst Nightmare — Hannibal
• 2006The Nativity Story — The Angel Gabriel
• 2005Kingdom of Heaven — Nasir
• 2005Syriana — Prince Nasir Al-Subaai
• 2004The Hamburg Cell — Khalid Sheikh Mohammed
• 2002Reign of Fire — Ajay
• Spooks — Ibhn Khaldun
• 24 — Hamri Al-Assad
• Waking the Dead — Dr. Mohammed
• 2000Vertical Limit — Kareem Nazir
• Family Guy — London Silly Nannies Player (voice)
• 1995Star Trek: Deep Space Nine - The Way of the Warrior — Julian Bashir
• Star Trek: Deep Space Nine — Julian Bashir, Director
• 1993Star Trek: Deep Space Nine - Emissary — Julian Bashir
• 1992A Dangerous Man: Lawrence After Arabia — Prince Feisal (as Siddig El-Fadil)
• The Big Battalions — Yousef
• Agatha Christie's Poirot — Shaitana
• Star Trek: The Next Generation — Doctor Julian Bashir
• Joseph of Egypt — Jacob
• Jude and the Jinn — Jinn
• Words from the Oven

Appearances as themselves (12)

• 2025Beam Me Up, Sulu — Self
• Star Trek Day — Self
• 2018What We Left Behind: Looking Back at Star Trek: Deep Space Nine — Self
• 2015Game of Thrones: Spanish Kingdom Special — Self
• Wild Arabia — Himself - Narrator
• 2008Anatomy of Catastrophe: The Making of 'Doomsday' — self
• 2006The Path to Redemption — Self
• 2005Collectormania 7 — Self
• 2003Deep Space Nine: Ending an Era — Self
• 2003Trials and Tribble-ations: Uniting Two Legends — Self
• 1996The Making of Star Trek Deep Space Nine Trials And Tribble-ations — Self
• 1993Star Trek: Deep Space Nine - Behind the Scenes — Himself