Showtime’s New Psycho-thriller HOMELAND has picked their ‘bad guy’…actor Navid Negahban.

Showtime's HOMELAND has picked their 'bad guy'...actor Navid Negahban.Navid Negahban has been cast in Showtime’s new psychological thriller, HOMELAND. Negahban is an American actor of Iranian descent who played “Jamot” on the final season of 24, along with a multitude of guest-starring roles on CSI: Miami, Law & Order, NCIS, Without a Trace, The Unit, and Lost, to name a few.Gaining a solid reputation as an actor whose characters we love to hate, Negahban will be playing “Abu Nazir”, the antagonist of the story.Negahban is internationally known for taking on eye-opening controversial roles, namely the despicable, vile husband in The Stoning of Soraya M, winner of the 2010 NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Foreign Feature. He also portrayed the brutal Afghan warlord opposite Tobey Maguire in Jim Sheridan’s feature Brothers.Homeland stars Damian Lewis as a Marine who returns home after enduring eight years as a prisoner of war in Baghdad. Golden Globe winner Claire Danes also stars as a C.I.A. officer who suspects Lewis's character of plotting an attack against the U.S. Mandy Patinkin will play a veteran CIA Division Chief who mentors Dane’s character. The pilot is loosely based on the Israeli television series Prisoners of War.Navid Negahban is represented by The House of Representatives (agent) and Michael Mann (management).