Zarif Kabier

Zarif and his family emigrated to the United States in September of 2000. With leading man good looks and classical training from the prestigious Columbia University in New York city, he has undertaken film, TV, and theatre projects as both lead and principle roles. He comes from a medical family; his younger brother and sister are both doctors, and his older brother works in the administrative side as a medical recruiter. He is fluent in Farsi/Dari, English, and Hindi/Urdu. He can also converse as well as read Arabic and Pashto. As an actor, he has had the pleasure of traveling the country and worked in the theatre at many major regional theatre companies such as Cleveland Playhouse in Ohio, San Jose Repertory Theatre in California, Arizona Theatre Company in Phoenix and Tucson, Actor's Theatre of Louisville in Kentucky, Shakespeare Santa Cruz in California and several others.

In August of 1992 he witnessed his father die in their family garden from a shrapnel wound due to a mortar explosion that was launched by the Afghan warlord Gulbuddin Hekmatyar.

Zarif Kabier is an Afghan born American stage, film, and television actor ( born on 25 February 1988) the second son to Muhammed Kabier Sadiqi (a medical doctor and an Afghan National Army General) and to Jameela Sadiqi (née Monsef) a school-teacher and home-maker,Zarif spent the first twelve years of his life in Afghanistan, having lived through the on-going civil war there, including most of the four-year Taliban regime.