Nabil Shaban was born on 12 February 1953 and is a Jordanian-British actor and writer.
11 Facts About Nabil Shaban
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Nabil Shaban was sent to England for medical care, where he grew up in a series of hospitals and residential homes.
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Nabil Shaban studied at the University of Surrey in the late 1970s and contributed to the Students' Union newspaper "Bare Facts".
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In 1997, Nabil Shaban was awarded an honorary doctorate by the university for services in the promotion of Disability Arts.
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Nabil Shaban played Sil in two serials: Vengeance on Varos and Mindwarp, and created Sil's laugh.
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Nabil Shaban reprised the role in the Big Finish audio dramas Mission to Magnus and Antidote to Oblivion, both again written by Philip Martin.
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Nabil Shaban again played Sil in 2019 in Reeltime Pictures' web series production of Sil and the Devil Seeds of Arodor, again written by Philip Martin.
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In 2003 he made a TV documentary titled The Strangest Viking, in which Nabil Shaban explored the possibility that Viking chieftain Ivar the Boneless may have had osteogenesis imperfecta, the same condition he himself has.
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Nabil Shaban has published a trilogy of Ivarr the Boneless screenplays on Kindle, representing the Viking chieftain as a disabled Danish prince with brittle bones and unable to walk.
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Nabil Shaban was nominated Best Actor in Scottish theatre in 2005, by the Critics' Awards for Theatre in Scotland, for his role as Mack the Knife in Bertolt Brecht's Threepenny Opera, a Theatre Workshop production.
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Nabil Shaban lost out to rival nominee David Tennant, who was about to become the Tenth Doctor in Doctor Who.