Kayvan Novak co-created and starred in the comedy series Fonejacker from 2006 to 2008 with a one-off in 2012, winning the BAFTA Television Award for Best Comedy in 2008.
18 Facts About Kayvan Novak
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Kayvan Novak portrayed Waj in the 2010 comedy film Four Lions, and he plays the vampire Nandor the Relentless in the mockumentary series What We Do in the Shadows.
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Kayvan Novak was privately educated at Highgate School and the Fine Arts College in Hampstead, before attending the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art.
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Kayvan Novak announced on BBC Radio 1 in May 2012 that the character Terry Tibbs, a mainstay of both shows, would be getting a spin-off chat show; this aired in August 2012.
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Kayvan Novak played Simon in the Channel 4 sitcom pilot Bad Sugar.
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Kayvan Novak filmed a scene for This Is England '86 which was cut from the final broadcast, but appears in the DVD extras.
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Kayvan Novak was one of the main characters in the television show Sirens, which began on 27 June 2011 on Channel 4 in the UK.
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Kayvan Novak featured in two episodes of Phone Shop, the first in Series 1, titled "The First Temptation of Chris", and the second in Series 2, titled "Revenge of the Razz".
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Kayvan Novak appeared as an intelligence officer in the Academy Award-winning film Syriana.
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Kayvan Novak appeared in the 2010 comedy Four Lions, in which he played the dim-witted Waj, a role for which he won the award for Best Comedy Performance in a British Film at the 2010 British Comedy Awards, beating fellow actor Nigel Lindsay, who was nominated for his role in the same film.
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Kayvan Novak appeared as Alok in the first series of BBC Radio 4 comedy Fags, Mags and Bags.
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Kayvan Novak voiced various characters in the ITV spoof sketch show Headcases, and in the 2012 Channel 4 animated series Full English.
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Kayvan Novak lent his vocals to British band Beady Eye's 2013 song "Flick of the Finger".
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Kayvan Novak voiced a Cyberman head called Handles in the Doctor Who 2013 Christmas special "The Time of the Doctor".
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Kayvan Novak had a starring role in the last episode of the first series of Uncle as Mo, the boss of a fictional record label.
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In May 2017, Kayvan Novak appeared in Channel 4's Britain Today, Tonight.
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In 2019, Kayvan Novak was cast as the vampire Nandor The Relentless in the mockumentary comedy horror television series What We Do In The Shadows.
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Kayvan Novak speaks fluent Persian, as seen on the second episode of Season 2 of What We Do in the Shadows.