Nazanin Toani (born May 22, 1980) is a British actress and activist. He was born in Iran and raised in London before attending university in the United States, where he made his acting debut in the medical drama General Hospital (2007–2009) and its spin-off General Hospital: The Night Shift (2007). Since then, he has appeared in movies and series, mostly for acting in the TV series Meet the Mother (2011), the political-thriller series Mihan (2013-2014), the historical drama film Ben Hur (2016), 