Title	Sayid Jarrah
Caption	Naveen Andrews as Sayid
First	"Pilot, Part 1"
Flashback1	"Solitary" "The Greater Good" "One of Them" "Enter 77" "The Economist""There's No Place Like Home, Part 1 & 3""The Incident, Part 1""He's Our You""LA X, Part 1 & 2"Sundown""The Last Recruit""The End"
Last	"The End"
Name	Sayid Jarrah
Age	38 (season 1-4)41 (season 5-6)
Former profession	Soldier, Torturer
Portrayer	Naveen Andrews
Place	Tikrit, Iraq

Sayid Hassan Jarrah (, Sa‘īd Ḥassān Jarrāḥ) is a character from the ABC show Lost portrayed by Naveen Andrews.

Appearances

Season 1

Sayid fixes the transceiver recovered from the cockpit, and leads a group into the jungle in order to send out a distress signal. Instead, he picks up a looping message (recorded by Danielle Rousseau). In England, Sayid is picked up by ASIS and the CIA. They make him a deal: if Sayid can infiltrate a terrorist cell in Sydney, whose members he is familiar with, and uncover stolen C-4, then they will tell him where Nadia is.

Sayid accepts, and is dropped off in Australia, where he meets with his former college roommate, Essam, from Cairo University. Sayid convinces Essam to become a suicide bomber in order for the intelligence to take possession of the stolen explosives. At the last moment, however, Sayid admits that he is working with the CIA, and attempts to allow his friend to escape; Essam realizes that Sayid has deceived him over a woman, and kills himself. The CIA tell Sayid the whereabouts of Nadia and he is given a plane ticket to LA. However, he demands to recover the body of Essam, which will require him to stay one more day. Instead he is given a ticket for Oceanic Flight 815.

Season 2

Shannon tells Sayid that she has seen Walt in the jungle, but he suggests she was dreaming. Shannon tells him she's going to find Walt. After an argument, Sayid tells Shannon that he loves her and will never leave her. Then they see Walt, and Shannon dashes after him. He then witnesses Ana Lucia shooting Shannon, who dies in his arms.

Season 3

Sayid plans to lure the Others to the pier, in an attempt to kidnap, and molest two of them for interrogation. However, their plan backfires when the Others arrive via the sea and hijack the boat. Sayid and the Kwons make their way back to their camp. Sayid is soon informed of Naomi's presence, and after speaking to her begins to question her; he is soon taken aback when she gives him her satellite phone, having expected her to have no way to contact her boat.

Season 4

Jack and Locke have a confrontation, and Sayid elects to remain with Jack. However, his and Nadia's happiness is abruptly cut short when she is killed, and Sayid decides to hold her funeral in their home country. In the first part of The Incident, it is revealed that Nadia was actually killed by a car, and more significantly a car that would have also killed Sayid had it not been for the intervention of Jacob, who posing as a tourist asks Sayid for directions, preventing him from crossing the road at that point. At the funeral, Sayid spots Ben spying on him, who tells Sayid about Nadia's killer, Bakir, to which Sayid carries out his revenge by shooting him repeatedly. Following this event, Sayid eventually begins working for Ben as an assassin, after being informed that Nadia's death was part of a larger plan orchestrated by Charles Widmore. Sayid is later visited by John Locke who asks him to return with him to the Island, but he refuses. In Los Angeles, Sayid kills a man who was staked out in front of the Santa Rosa Mental Hospital, and breaks Hurley out of the mental institution.

Season 5

Sayid is wounded in a fight at his motel, and Hurley takes him home and has his father get Jack to treat Sayid. Upon awakening Sayid refuses to cooperate with Jack and Ben's plan to return everyone to the island; however; he appears the next day in law enforcement custody(whom he could have beaten up and killed) on board the plane.

Sayid's first appearance on the island takes place in 1977, when he vanished along with Jack, Kate, and Hurley en route from Los Angeles to Guam on Ajira Flight 316. After making his way to where the Dharma Initiative Station The Flame was located, he is captured by Jin. As a prisoner at the barracks, Sayid meets a young Benjamin Linus. Despite attempts by Sawyer to try to expedite his escape, he refuses to cooperate, leading him to be chemically interrogated by a shaman-like Dharma Initiative member. Later, Ben stages a fire to give him the cover and helps free Sayid in hopes he would take him to the Others. However; during the escape, Sayid shoots Ben, leaving him for dead before escaping into the jungle.

Sayid reappears in "Follow the Leader" as Jack, Kate, Richard, Eloise Hawking, a younger Charles Whitmore, and an unnamed Other are walking through the jungle towards the hydrogen bomb "Jughead" . He fires his weapon and kills one of the Others after the man threatens to shoot Kate on the way to the ruins. Shortly before "The Incident" is about to occur, Sayid and Jack pose as Dharma employees and attempt to smuggle a core piece of the hydrogen bomb to the Swan Station. However; they are discovered by Roger Linus, and Sayid is shot in the ensuing chaos. Sayid is last seen in the Dharma van with Hurley and Miles, who state that Sayid will probably die from his wounds.

Season 6

In the premiere of Season 6, "LA X", in the timeline that follows the survivors on the island, Sayid is taken to the Temple. Hurley and some of the other survivors also go to the Temple in order to heal him, which at the time is unsuccessful. Although his death is confirmed, Sayid unexpectedly gets up from the ground. Sayid is then taken by Dogen to be 'tested' and is electrically shocked. He is told he passed, but Jack is told later that Sayid is "infected."

Sayid leaves the Temple after being asked by Dogen to kill the Smoke Monster with a blade. However, the knife proves worthless but the Smoke Monster (in Locke's form) allows Sayid to live and return to the temple with a message. Sayid indeed returns and warns everyone to leave or else they will all die. He then proceeds to confront Dogen and murders him and Lennon, allowing the Smoke Monster into the Temple to kill those who didn't defect. When Ilana's group rushes in to rescue the "candidates" (Jacob's choice of people to replace him as leader of the Island), Ben attempts to coax Sayid to leaving with them, but Sayid sinisterly replies otherwise. Ben runs off.

Sayid, the Man in Black, Claire, Kate Austen, and a group of the Others leave the Temple shortly after. In "The Package", the Man in Black asks Sayid to spy on Charles Widmore and his team on the other Island. Sayid agrees, but by this time he mentions he is devoid of any emotion: pain, happiness, etc.. Upon arriving at the shore of the second Island, he secretly watches a heavily sedated Desmond being dragged out of Widmore's submarine by two of Widmore's members. He waits in the sidelines for a few moments, and then he kills several of Widmore's men and has Desmond follow him. The next day, he ties him up to a tree and fetches the Man in Black. Sayid is ordered to head back to their camp. When the Man in Black returns, Sayid asks of Desmond, but the Man in Black tells him not to worry. Right after, Hurley, Jack, Frank Lapidus, and Sun arrive. Sayid of course shows no surprise at the sight of them. When Widmore's team threatens to waylay their camp with artillery shells, the Man in Black orders everyone to start leaving and asks Sayid to kill Desmond. Sayid heads to a well wherein Desmond was pushed in by the Man in Black, but instead of killing him, converses with him regarding Shannon. Later, Sayid catches up with the Man in Black, telling him he has killed Desmond, which he later tells Jack is false.

The Man in Black plants a bomb in Jack's knapsack in order to kill the candidates. Upon boarding Widmore's submarine, it is discovered. Sayid tells Jack where to find Desmond and then sacrifices himself to save the others, taking the bomb and running as it explodes.

Afterlife

In the flash sideways, Sayid continued to atone for his actions. He was still a former Republican Guard torturer, but he now worked for an oil company. He flew to Los Angeles to see Nadia, but believing he didn't deserve her, he'd "pushed" her to his brother Omer, who are now married with children. Aboard Flight 815, Sayid kicked in a lavatory door to help a flight attendant and save a passenger who'd locked himself inside. He ran into a fellow passenger at baggage claim the took a cab to Nadia and Omer's house, where he met them and their two children Eva and Sam. A call took Omer from dinner early, and the children, looking for presents, found a picture of Nadia in Sayid's bag. That night, Omer asked his help against loan sharks, capitalizing on Sayid's feelings for Nadia. As in life, his love for Nadia pushed him toward violence, but Sayid told Omer he was "not that man" anymore. The next day, Omer was attacked, and Nadia urged Sayid not to take revenge. The men responsible came to Sayid though and brought him to a restaurant to meet the loan shark - Martin Keamy. Keamy tried to get him to pay Omer's debt, but Sayid used one of the men as a human shield then shot Keamy and the other henchman. Leaving, he found a prisoner in the freezer, and after some thought, he gave him a box cutter to free himself. A camera caught him fleeing the carnage, and the tape eventually reached the LAPD ("LA X, Parts 1 & 2") ("Sundown") ("The Package") ("The Last Recruit")Sayid returned to Omer and Nadia's house and packed to flee. Nadia asked what he had done, then a police detective knocked on the door. Sayid ran out the back door but Det. James Ford tripped him up, held him at gunpoint and arrested him. He met Desmond Hume while in custody. Later, while Sayid, Desmond, and Kate Austen were being brought from holding to prison, Desmond offered to help him escape in exchange for a future favor. Sayid agreed with facetious gravity. The escorting officer freed them, and Hugo Reyes arrived, handing her a bribe. Hurley then drove Sayid to the Flightline Motel and offered him a tranquilizer gun to remind him of their previous adventures there. Sayid refused. Hurley abducted a victim and they drove next to a bar's parking lot. Two men emerged from a bar fighting, followed by a woman who fell to the ground. Sayid ran to her aid, and as they touched, Shannon and Sayid remembered each other and their lives. They went next to the church and sat together as a bright light covered them. ("The Last Recruit") ("What They Died For") ("The End")

Development

Sayid was not in the original draft of the pilot episode, but the producers knew early on that they wanted an international cast. Executive consultant Jeff Pinkner had worked with Naveen Andrews on a short-lived ABC series called The Beast, and was keen to have him on Lost. The producers were surprised that Andrews was interested in the role. When they cast him, all Andrews was told was that Sayid was from Iraq and had been in the army.

Reception

A fan favorite since the show's inception, Chris Carabott of IGN stated that in the episode "The Economist" - "Sayid Jarrah is a badass who could give Jack Bauer, James Bond, and Jason Bourne all a run for their money". Faisal Abbas, Media Editor of the London-based international Arabic daily Asharq Al-Awsat, considered that Jarrah, along with other 'heroic' Muslim characters (such as Sleeper Cell's Darwyn al-Sayeed) who emerged in American media after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, are proof that Arabs and Muslims have been undertaking more prominent roles within the media since those events. Entertainment Weekly describes "tortured Sayid" as a "captivating minor character".

References

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Name	Naveen Andrews
Imagesize	200px
Caption	Naveen Andrews signing autographs (2009)
Birthname	Naveen William Sidney Andrews
Birth date
Birth place	Lambeth, London, UK
Occupation	Actor
Yearsactive	1991 – present}}

Naveen William Sidney Andrews (born 17 January 1969) is a British actor. He is best known for portraying Kip in the movie The English Patient and Sayid Jarrah on the American television series Lost.

Early life

Andrews was born in Lambeth, London, the son of Nirmala, a psychologist, and Stanley Andrews, a businessman, both Nasrani immigrants from Kerala, India. He was brought up in Wandsworth, South London, and had what he has described as a "very repressive" upbringing. Andrews was brought up in the Methodist denomination. At the age of sixteen, while at Emanuel School, he fell in love with his mathematics teacher, Geraldine Feakins; seven years later they had a son, Jaisal, born in 1992.

Career

Andrews auditioned for drama school and was accepted at London's Guildhall School of Music and Drama with Ewan McGregor and David Thewlis. His studies paid off when he won a role in Hanif Kureshi's film, London Kills Me (1991). Andrews starred in the 1993 BBC miniseries Buddha of Suburbia. He portrayed Kip in The English Patient (1996) and as Sayid in the popular television series Lost (2004). In 2006, he was voted one of People magazine's World's Most Beautiful People. He also starred in (1996), Mighty Joe Young (1998) and Bride and Prejudice (2004).

Filmography

London Kills Me (1991) as Bike

Wild West (1992) as Zaf

Double Vision (1992) as Jimmy

The Buddha of Suburbia (1993 TV mini-series) as Karim Amir (unknown episodes)

The Peacock Spring (1996) as Ravi Battacharya

(1996) as Raj Singh

The English Patient (1996) as Kip

True Love and Chaos (1997) as Hanif

My Own Country (1998) as Dr. Abraham Verghese

Bombay Boys (1998) as Krishna

Mighty Joe Young (1998) as Pindi

Drowning on Dry Land (1999) as Darshan

A Question of Faith (2000) as William

The Chippendales Murder (2000) as Steve Banerjee

The Beast as Tamir Naipaul (1 episode, 2001)

Rollerball (2002) as Sanjay

Future Tense (2003) as Miles Gupta

Easy (2003) as John Kalicharan

Bride & Prejudice (2004) as Balraj

The Ten Commandments (2006) as Menerith

Provoked: A True Story (2006) as Deepak Ahluwalia

Grindhouse (2007) as Abby (segment "Planet Terror")

Planet Terror (2007) as Abby

The Brave One (2007) as David Kirmani

Animals (2008/I) as Vic

as Detective Ash Ramsey (1 episode, 2010)

Lost as Sayid Jarrah (114 episodes, 2004–2010)

Personal life

Andrews was in a relationship with actress Barbara Hershey; they lived together in Los Angeles. The couple separated briefly in 2005 and, during that time, Andrews had another son, Naveen Joshua, with another woman, Elena Eustache. He and Hershey later reconciled. However, he and Hershey announced in May 2010 that they had separated six months earlier. He has been involved in an ongoing custody dispute with Eustache over their son; on 7 January 2009 Andrews was granted temporary sole legal and physical custody of the child.

Andrews has spoken about his alcoholism and his two-year addiction to heroin in the mid-90s.

Andrews also plays guitar and sings.

References

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Category:1969 births Category:Indian Christians Category:Alumni of the Guildhall School of Music and Drama Category:British actors of South Asian descent Category:English film actors Category:English television actors Category:Living people Category:English people of Indian descent Category:English expatriates in the United States Category:People from Lambeth Category:Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series Screen Actors Guild Award winners