Omar Alex Khan

Canadian screen, stage, and Voice Actor

About

Site landing and bio photos by Tim Leyes

Born and raised in Winnipeg, Canada, Omar has compiled a diverse résumé of film, television, and theatre credits over a twenty-year career. After post-university detours through the divergent worlds of early-childhood education and rock and roll musicianship, Omar made his first screen appearance in the John Dahl directed You Kill Me (Carol Baum/Code), starring and produced by Sir Ben Kingsley. Shortly thereafter he made his professional stage debut in the dual roles of Lorenzo and the Prince of Morocco in Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice. Since then he has appeared in studio and indie films, as well as North American television shows such as ZARQA (CBC Gem), Shelved (CTV), The Strain (FX), Frankie Drake Mysteries (CBC), and Remedy (Global) and has appeared on stages across Canada.

Stage highlights include a season at The Stratford Festival, Oslo (Theatre 180/Mirvish), Glengarry Glen Ross, The New Canadian Curling Club, and Waitress (all for the Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre), The Band's Visit and Harold Pinter's Betrayal (Winnipeg Jewish Theatre), Million Dollar Quartet (The Grand), The Kite Runner (Theatre Calgary/The Citadel), Iceland (Theatre Projects Manitoba), and As You Like It and Titus Andronicus (Canadian Stage).

Omar's voice can be heard in the audiobook Bitter Paradise by Ross Pennie and in the Far Cry video game franchise.

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Shelved
ZARQA
Frankie Drake Mysteries
The Strain
Killjoys
Mayday (Air Crash Investigation)
Pay the Ghost
Remedy
Journey Back to Christmas
Bravetown
Less Than Kind
Jack: The Jack Layton Story
Wrath of Grapes: Don Cherry II
Todd and the Book of Pure Evil
You Kill Me
Walk All Over Me
Horsemen
The Christmas Hope

CTV
CBC Gem
CBC
FX
SyFy
Discovery
Voltage Pictures
Global
Hallmark
Strings of Films
HBO Canada
CBC
CBC
Space
Carol Baum/Code
Chaos
Mandate
Lifetime

selected theatre

Tewfiq
Cal
Sam Phillips
Qasim
Hassan Asfour
Anoopjeet
Ensemble
Capt. Leather
Sempronius
Hopkinson
Trip
Don Pedro
Buckingham
Duke Frederick/Silvius
Aemilius
Jalil/Abdul Sharif
Roma
Rahim Khan
Maulana
Joseph/Old Aman
Peter/Sampson
Ben Hecht
Nicky
Halim
Prince of Morocco/Lorenzo

The Band's Visit
Waitress
Million Dollar Quartet
New
Oslo
The New Canadian Curling Club
1837: The Farmers' Revolt
The Wars
Timon of Athens
The Komagata Maru Incident
The School For Scandal
Much Ado About Nothing
Richard III
As You Like It
Titus Andronicus
A Thousand Splendid Suns
Glengarry Glen Ross
The Kite Runner
Acha Bacha
The Wanderers
Romeo and Juliet
Moonlight and Magnolias
The Seafarer
Iceland
The Merchant of Venice

Winnipeg Jewish Theatre Royal Manitoba Theatre Ctr.
The Grand
Royal Manitoba Theatre Ctr.
Theatre 180/Mirvish
Blyth Festival
Blyth Festival
The Grand
Stratford Festival
Stratford Festival
Stratford Festival
Shakespeare in the Ruins
Shakespeare in the Ruins
Canadian Stage
Canadian Stage
The Grand
Royal Manitoba Theatre Ctr.
Theatre Calgary/The Citadel
Theatre Passe Muraille
Cahoots
Royal Manitoba Theatre Ctr.
Prairie Theatre Exchange
Royal Manitoba Theatre Ctr.
Theatre Projects Manitoba
Shakespeare in the Ruins

Photo by Paul Lampert

Watch Omar talk about The Band's Visit on City TV Winnipeg

"Omar Alex Khan is a stand-out, radiating warmth."

- The Globe and Mail

"...two powerful leads in Kih Becke as Antigone and Omar Alex Khan as Creon. Their force is matched in a bitter conflict making their climactic confrontation riveting."

- NS Reviews