Kayvan Novak ( , born November 23 1978, London) is a British Iranian television actor. Kadivar, Darius, blank">Syriana breaks Iranian stereotypes, Persian Mirror, last accessed 2007-08-03. He has appeared in medical drama _Holby City, spy series Spooks, and most recently as an intelligence officer in the Academy Award-winning film Syriana alongside Matt Damon and George Clooney. blank">Kayvan Novak, _Internet Movie Database, last accessed 2007-08-03.
In 2005 he and Ed Tracy created Fonejacker, a prank call-based show as part of Comedy Lab for Channel 4 lab/one.html" target="_blank">Comedy Lab, _Channel 4, last accessed 2007-08-03. . After the pilot, he was given a Christmas special and a six-part series, which after a three month delay, began airing on July 5 2007 on E4 and September 7 2007 on Channel 4. His characters include: an orphaned mouse; an electronics aficionado who seems to have no belief in initialisms; a swearing cockney, bald car salesman; overweight Chinese students trying to sell bootlegged DVDs; a salesman who claims to work for companies with rude names; a salesman working for an Indian ISP and an African asking for bank account details, amongst many others.
Novak also provided voice work for numerous videogames, including Perfect Dark Zero and Kameo on the Xbox 360 console.
