Cas Anvar

Cas Anvar is a Canadian actor who became known for playing Alex Kamal on the science fiction series The Expanse. Born in Regina, Saskatchewan, and raised in Montreal, he took up acting after he played Hamlet in a high school production. He studied psychology and sciences at McGill University before graduating from the National Theatre School in 1989. Anvar was the founding artistic director of Repercussion Theatre, whose Shakespeare in the Park festival toured North America. He made his screen debut in Urban Angel in 1992 and later portrayed journalist Kambiz Foroohar in Shattered Glass (2003). He voiced Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad in Assassin's Creed: Revelations in 2011 and co-starred with Jake Gyllenhaal in Source Code (2011). He appeared in Argo, which won a SAG Award in 2013 for Best Cast Performance, played Dodi Fayed in Diana (2013), and co-starred in the Oscar-nominated Room (2015). He also starred in The Lie (2018).