| His name is Kayvan Novak and no! He's not Indian or Pakistani He is actually a British Iranian. Born November 23, 1978, Cricklewood, North London. He has appeared in British soap opera Family Affairs, medical drama Holby City, spy series Spooks, and most recently as an intelligence officer in the Academy Award-winning film Syriana alongside Matt Damon and George Clooney. In 2005 he and Ed Tracy created Fonejacker, a prank call-based show as part of Comedy Lab for Channel 4. After the pilot, he was given a Christmas special and a six-part series, which after a three month delay, began airing on July 5, 2007 on E4 and September 7, 2007 on Channel 4. His characters include: an orphaned mouse; an electronics aficionado who seems to have no belief in initialisms; a swearing cockney, bald car salesman; overweight Chinese students trying to sell bootlegged DVDs; a salesman who claims to work for companies with rude names; a salesman working for an Indian ISP and an African asking for bank account details, amongst many others. |
