Bijan Daneshmand (Persian: بیژن دانشمند, born 16 August 1958) is an Iranian actor and artist based in London, England. He is known for producing and starring in 20 Fingers (2004), which won the Best Digital Film award at the 61st Venice International Film Festival; for his roles in Shirin Neshat's Women Without Men (2009) and Babak Anvari's Under the Shadow (2016); as the character Kouyami in The Night Manager (2016), directed by Susanne Bier; and for portraying Ali Reza Jamshidpour in Maryam Keshavarz's The Persian Version (2023) and Rasoul Shahin in the Netflix series The Diplomat. (Via Wikipedia)