Acting
Mustafa Haidari is a versatile multilingual Afghan-American actor based in Los Angeles California. He loves learning new dialects and can speak in several South Asian and Middle Eastern languages such as Dari, Pashto, Farsi, Urdu, Hindi, Arabic and Turkish.
His passion for acting sparked at a young age of seven or eight years old when he attended a film set for the first time in Kabul where his father's cousin was an actor filming his scenes for a movie. Soon After high school in Kabul, he enrolled at the faculty of Fine Arts at Kabul University and majored in acting. He also attended private acting classes and acting workshops held by international artists. He was very fortunate to be trained by Ariane Mnouchkine, a world-renowned French theater director who had traveled to Kabul with 40 French actors from Theatre du Soleil in (2005) to train young Afghan actors.
Mustafa landed his first acting role on a stage play called "I am not the second gender" whhile in Afghanistan. A play centered on some of the bad customs, and traditions that undermine equality for women in the Afghan society. He then played his second on stage role as a messenger in an Afghan adopted Shakespeare play called "Shakespeare in Kabul" directed by Corinne Jaber in (2005). The play had multiple runs in multiple Afghanistan provinces like Kabul, Herat, Mazar e-Sharif and was very well received by the Afghans and non-Afghans alike.
In (2006), Mustafa was hired as an Afghan casting associate for The Kite Runner feature film in Kabul and later he became a cast member in the movie as well. The Kite Runner novel is written by a well-known Afghan-American and UNHCR goodwill ambassador Khalid Hosseini in (2003). The Kite Runner was New York Time's bestselling novel for two consecutive years from (2005) with millions of copies translated in many different languages and sold worldwide. It was the first opportunity for Mustafa to get deeply involved in the movie industry that he had always admired.
Two years later Mustafa moved to Los Angeles California in (2008) to peruse his American dream as an actor in Hollywood. His recent work can be seen in the upcoming television show Echo3 on Apple Tv. Some of his other credits include, four episodes recurring guest star in season 8 of the award-winning TV show Homeland as Firooz on Showtime, recurring three episodes in SEAL Team on CBS as Khalid an Afghan interpreter, four episodes recurring role as Ishaq in The Brink on HBO and more. His film credits are 12 Strong, Saint Judy, Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, Day One, Man Down, The Kite Runner, Kabuli Kid, Zero Dark Thirty, Lone Survivor, Max, Queen of the Desert and many more. Read More
