Zarif Kabier

Zarif Kabier is an Afghan born American stage, film, and television actor. With a world-class training from the prestigious Columbia University where he attained his Master's degree in acting and with his leading-man good looks, Zarif has played diverse roles in film, television, and theatre as both lead and supporting characters. Zarif spent the first twelve years of his life in Kabul, Afghanistan, living through the Afghan civil-war, including the atrocious four-year Taliban regime. Zarif is the second son born to Muhammed Kabier Sadiqi, medical doctor and an Afghan National Army General, and to Jameela Sadiqi (née Monsef), a school-teacher and home-maker. In August of 1992 he witnessed his father die in their family garden due to a shrapnel wound from a stray rocket during the diabolical shelling of Kabul at the hands of Afghan warlord Gulbuddin Hekmatyar. Zarif and his family sought political asylum in the United States in 2000. He comes from a medical family; his younger brother and sister are both medical doctors, and his older brother is a Software Engineer working in the medical industry. Zarif is fluent in Farsi/Dari, English, and Hindi/Urdu. He can also converse in Arabic and Pashto. As a stage-actor, he has performed in several major regional theatre companies such as Rattlestick Playwrights Theatre off-Broadway, Cleveland Playhouse in Ohio, San Jose Repertory Theatre in California, Arizona Theatre Company in Phoenix and Tucson, Thick House in San Francisco, Actor's Theatre of Louisville in Kentucky, Shakespeare Santa Cruz in California, and others. More recently, he was seen at the Guthrie Theatre in Enemy of the People in 2018 and performed with LA Philharmonic Orchestra at the Disney Concert Hall in Shakespeare's The Tempest in 2019. He resides in California with his wife Carson Pursley who also is an actor.