Faran Tahir Biography

Fast Facts

• In the late 1800s, his maternal great-grandparents published the first Pakistani magazine for women
• Parents are actor-writer-directors
• Originally considered majoring in business and economics in college, but switched to theater
• For his Iron Man screen test, director Jon Favreau had him and costar Robert Downey Jr
• do the same scene 10 different ways
• Played the villainous Raza, who kidnapped and tortured the lead character, in Iron Man (2008)
• Upon reading the screenplay, he convinced the filmmakers to make the bad guys mercenaries instead of the originally scripted Muslim terrorists
• Son, Javan, had a small role in Iron Man