Omid Djalili is a British Iranian stand-up comedian and actor. He appeared in Gladiator as a slave trader and was Cairo prison warden Gad Hassan in The Mummy.
One of his six best books, as told to the Daily Express:Captain Corelli's Mandolin by Louis de Bernieres
I read this on a film set and got so into the book that the filming became a bit of an annoyance.
By the end I was in floods of





