Biography
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-starr...
Known For
Complete Filmography
Beam Me Up, Sulu
2025
as Self
In 1985, George Takei helped a group of young Trekkies make a fan film—then the footage vanished. Nearly 40 years later, the search to recover it open...
Deliver Us
2023
as Cardinal Russo
When a nun in a remote convent claims immaculate conception, the Vatican sends a team of priests to investigate, concerned about an ancient prophecy t...
Skylines
2020
as General Radford
When a virus threatens to turn the now earth-dwelling friendly alien hybrids against humans, Captain Rose Corley must lead a team of elite mercenaries...
21 Bridges
2019
as Adi
An embattled NYPD detective, is thrust into a citywide manhunt for a pair of cop killers after uncovering a massive and unexpected conspiracy. As the ...
What We Left Behind: Looking Back at Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
2018
as Self
A documentary exploring the legacy of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, the reasons it went from the black sheep of Star Trek to a beloved mainstay of the f...
Submergence
2017
as Dr. Shadid
While James More is held captive by terrorists in Somalia, thousands of miles away on the Greenland Sea, his lover Danny Flinders prepares to dive her...
City of Tiny Lights
2016
as Al-Dabaran
In the teeming, multicultural metropolis of modern-day London, a seemingly straightforward missing-person case launches a down-at-heel private eye int...
May in the Summer
2014
as Ziad
A bride-to-be is forced to reevaluate her life when she reunites with her family in Jordan and finds herself confronted with the aftermath of her pare...
The Fifth Estate
2013
as Dr. Tarek Haliseh
A look at the relationship between WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and his early supporter and eventual colleague Daniel Domscheit-Berg, and how the ...
Inescapable
2012
as Adib
Twenty-five years ago Adib, a promising young officer in the Syrian military police, suddenly left Damascus under suspicious circumstances. Abandoning...
Miral
2010
as Jamal
A drama centered on an orphaned Palestinian girl growing up in the wake of the first Arab-Israeli war who finds herself drawn into the conflict.
4.3.2.1
2010
as Mr. Jauo-Pinto
Jo is chained down in a dead end supermarket job while all her friends are all out on their own separate adventures. But a chance encounter with some ...
Clash of the Titans
2010
as Hermes
Born of a god but raised as a man, Perseus is helpless to save his family from Hades, vengeful god of the underworld. With nothing to lose, Perseus vo...
Cairo Time
2009
as Tareq Khalifa
In Cairo on her own as she waits for her husband, Juliette finds herself caught in a whirlwind romance with his friend Tareq, a retired cop. As Tareq ...
Spy(ies)
2009
as Malik
In London, an airport baggage handler is forced by French and British intelligence agents to seduce the wife of a businessman with ties to Syrian terr...
The Boundary
2008
as Ahmed Ali
A family on its way home is forced to deal with circumstances they would never hope for.
Anatomy of Catastrophe: The Making of 'Doomsday'
2008
as self
The Making of 'Doomsday'
Doomsday
2008
as Prime Minister John Hatcher
The lethal Reaper virus spreads throughout Britain—infecting millions and killing hundreds of thousands. Authorities brutally and successfully quarant...
A Lost Man
2007
as Fouad Saleh
Inspired by the photographic travels of Antione d'Agata, Danielle Arbid's worldly drama follows a French photographer who travels the globe to seek ou...
The Last Legion
2007
as Theodorus Andronikos
As the Roman empire crumbles, young Romulus Augustus flees the city and embarks on a perilous voyage to Britain to track down a legion of supporters.
The Nativity Story
2006
as The Angel Gabriel
Mary and Joseph make the hard journey to Bethlehem for a blessed event in this retelling of the Nativity story. This meticulously researched and visua...
The Path to Redemption
2006
as Self
From pre-production to release, we are given an exclusive look into the making of Ridley Scott's Kingdom of Heaven (2005). Interviews with the cast an...
Hannibal: Rome's Worst Nightmare
2006
as Hannibal
It is 200 years before the birth of Christ and Rome is the new superpower of the ancient world. She believes she is invincible - but one man is destin...
Syriana
2005
as Prince Nasir Al-Subaai
The Middle Eastern oil industry is the backdrop of this tense drama, which weaves together numerous story lines. Bennett Holiday is an American lawyer...
Kingdom of Heaven
2005
as Nasir
After his wife dies, a blacksmith named Balian is thrust into royalty, political intrigue and bloody holy wars during the Crusades.
The Hamburg Cell
2004
as Khalid Sheikh Mohammed
A fictionalized account of the September 11 hijackers.
Deep Space Nine: Ending an Era
2003
as Himself
Trials and Tribble-ations: Uniting Two Legends
2003
as Himself
The making of the iconic Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode.
Reign of Fire
2002
as Ajay
In post-apocalyptic England, an American volunteer and a British survivor team up to fight off a brood of fire-breathing dragons seeking to return to ...
Vertical Limit
2000
as Kareem Nazir
Trapped near the summit of K2, the world's second-highest mountain, Annie Garrett radios to base camp for help. Brother Peter hears Annie's message an...
The Making of Star Trek Deep Space Nine Trials And Tribble-ations
1996
as Self
The Making of Star Trek Deep Space Nine Trials And Tribble-ations was a documentary which was broadcast on the Sci-Fi Channel in the US on 4 November ...
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine - The Way of the Warrior
1995
as Julian Bashir
When a Klingon fleet under General Martok arrives at the station ostensibly to protect the Alpha Quadrant from the Dominion, Sisko recruits Lieutenant...
Star Trek: The Next Generation - Birthright
1993
as Julian Bashir
The Enterprise arrives at Deep Space Nine where a mysterious alien, Jaglom Shrek, claims he can prove that Worf's father Mogh, is still alive. Meanwhi...
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine - Emissary
1993
as Julian Bashir
Three years after his wife died at the hands of the Borg and following the Cardassian withdrawal from the planet Bajor, Commander Benjamin Sisko and a...
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine - Behind the Scenes
1993
as Himself
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine – Behind the Scenes was a fifty minute documentary hosted by Terry Farrell that looked at the creation of Star Trek: Deep S...
A Dangerous Man: Lawrence After Arabia
1992
as Prince Feisal (as Siddig El-Fadil)
In 1919, the great English military man T. E. Lawrence tries to help Emir Feisal, ruler of Arabia, retain his political power during the Conference of...
Recon
N/A
Alexa Reikowski, a rookie FBI agent, embeds herself in a suspected terrorist family, after a attack on American soil.