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maltatoday, SUNDAY, 24 MAY 2015 This Week 39 POPULAR comedian, Omid Djalili will be performing in Malta for two nights only, at the Eden Cinemas on October 9 and 10. Tickets will go on sale soon. This follows from his hugely successful tour of 'Iranala- madingdong', 'Omid Djalili Live', not to mention per- forming in New York, LA, San Francisco and Washington DC last year. British-born Iranian comic and actor Omid Djalili's leg- endary performances on stage and screen have won him plaudits the world over. Cred- its include 'the slave trader' in Gladiator, Warden Gad Has- san in The Mummy, Fagin in West-End smash-hit Oliver!, and Mahmud Nasir in The Infidel, Mr Safir in Sex and the City 2, Askay/Pusasn in Pirates of the Carribean: At Worlds End and many more. Djalili's stand-up awards in- clude; Time Out Award – for Best Stand Up, the EMMA Award and was a South Bank Award nominee as well as be- ing a Perrier Award nominee. Djalili has appeared in a number of films, most nota- bly Gladiator, The Mummy, Mean Machine, The World Is Not Enough, Alien Au- topsy, Spy Game, Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow, Grow Your Own, Notting Hill, Mr Nice, Pirates of the Carib- bean: At World's End, Sex and the City 2 and provides his voice in Over the Hedge. Djalili is a Chelsea fan and has appeared in the club's in- house channel, Chelsea TV. Omid Djalili, world-famous comedian and actor, to take Eden stage A star of stage and screen, Djalili often pokes fun at his Iranian-British heritage