Tyrant

Howard Gordon is an award winning television writer, producer and author whose credits include some of TV’s most prolific series. Gordon co-created the breakout series Homeland, which is one of the biggest hits in Showtime’s history. The series has broken ratings records and won multiple awards, including the Emmy® Awards for Best Drama Series and Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series, two Golden Globe® Awards for Best Drama Series, Program of the Year at the AFI Awards, Best New Series at the Writers Guild Awards, Outstanding New Program at the Television Critics Association Awards, Outstanding Producer of Episodic Television Drama at the Producers Guild Awards and received the prestigious Peabody Award for Outstanding Achievement in Electronic Media.&nbsp;Gordon was a Showrunner and Executive Producer of the long-running hit television series, 24, for which he received both the Golden Globe and the Emmy Award for Best Drama Series in 2006. He was also an Executive Producer on 24: Live Another Day. Gordon also Executive Produces the series FX’s Tyrant and FOX’s Second Chance.A twenty-five year industry veteran, Gordon first gained national attention for his award-winning work on FOX’s groundbreaking series The X-Files, for which he won multiple Golden Globes.His other credits include Legends, Angel, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Beauty and the Beast, Sisters and Spenser: For Hire. He created the innovative 1999 drama Strange World, and the FOX series, The Inside.Also an accomplished author, Gordon released his first novel, Gideon’s War in 2011 and quickly followed it up with the sequel, Hard Target, which was released in 2012.Gordon graduated from Princeton University, and now lives in Los Angeles with his wife and three children. He is an advisory board member of the RAND Center for Middle East Public Policy, and active member at the Pacific Counsel on International Relations, and former board member and president of the Stroke Association of Southern California.

Howard Gordon is an award winning television writer, producer and author.

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Howard Gordon | Tyrant on FX

Howard Gordon | Executive Producer | Tyrant on FX

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Cast and Crew

Adam Rayner stars as "Bassam 'Barry' Al-Fayeed," an American pediatrician. It’s been a while now since Barry left Pasadena after a self-imposed decades-long exile to attend a wedding in his Middle Eastern homeland. Soft spoken, guarded, idealistic, but capable of making hard choices, Barry internally struggles with the man he is and the man he wants to be. Barry spent the second season escaping a death sentence, defeating the Caliphate and, without them knowing his true identity, leading the people of his native country towards the idea of democracy. Now, with his temperamental older brother Jamal in the ICU, Barry has become interim President of Abuddin, and he plans to fulfill the promises he made to himself and to his people by moving his homeland toward its first free election.&nbsp;

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Jennifer Finnigan stars as “Molly Al-Fayeed,” who is Barry’s wife, a successful doctor, and the mother of his children. Molly is a strong, pragmatic and loving woman. She was initially excited by the prospect of visiting Abuddin, until the gruesome underbelly of the country’s political situation cost her husband his life. But now, after learning that her husband is alive and had become the hero she always knew he could be, she is ready to embrace her role as first lady of Abuddin.

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Moran Atias stars as “Leila Al-Fayeed,” who is Jamal’s stunning wife with a laser sharp intellect and her own strong ideas about how Abuddin should be ruled. As the first lady, Leila planned to modernize Abuddin and introduce it to the world stage. But Jamal’s assassination attempt and the changes taking place in Abuddin have put her on the wrong side of the political coin. How will she continue to maintain her power position now that she is no longer in a position of power?

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Ashraf Barhom plays “Jamal Al-Fayeed,” who is Barry’s ferocious older brother. Charismatic and volatile, Jamal ruled Abuddin with an unconscionable brutality. But it finally caught up with him when his daughter-in-law, Nusrat, attempted an assassination, and now his life hangs in the balance.

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Noah Silver plays “Sammy Al-Fayeed,” who is Barry and Molly’s son. Sammy is handsome, athletic and a real heart-breaker. Now a little older, wiser and more politically aware than when he first came to Abuddin, Sammy must navigate his American sense of freedom in a different part of the world, especially as it relates to his sexuality.

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Alexander Karim plays “Ihab Bin Rashid,” a rising leader within the Caliphate who has only grown more powerful and destructive since the death of his wife, Samira, by Barry’s hands. Revenge is on Ihab’s mind as much as power – it’s not rational and it makes him more dangerous than ever.

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Chris Noth plays “Willam Cogswell,” an American general who has been sent by the U.S. to advise the Abuddinian military and government. He is seeking to extend American influence in the region. Wry and pragmatic, Cogswell has a world weary sense of the quagmire that is the Middle East, as well as his own jingoistic impulses. But he has history there to back up these feelings, including a history with Leila.

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