# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/nabil-shaban
# Generated: 2026-08-13T05:27:13.100Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/nabil-shaban"
name: "Nabil Shaban"
slug: "nabil-shaban"
description: "Nabil Shaban Moher Noghai was a Jordanian-British actor and writer. He co-founded the theatre group Graeae, which promotes disabled performers. On stage, he featured in several National Theatre productions. On television, he was best known for his role as the reptilian villain Sil in Doctor Who, appearing in two 1980s serials opposite Colin Baker's Sixth Doctor and reprising the role in two Big Finish audio dramas and a 2019 direct-to-video film, Sil and the Devil Seeds of Arodor."
tagline: "British actor"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Nabil_Shaban.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1953-02-12"
deathDate: "2025-10-25"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           48.67
  momentum:             18.90243902439024
  historical:           7.713862666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     55.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0787048/"
    handle:    "nm0787048"
sources:
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    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "نبيل شعبان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "نابيل شابان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nabil_Shaban"
    title: "Nabil Shaban"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%86%D8%A8%DB%8C%D9%84_%D8%B4%D8%B9%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%86"
    title: "نبیل شعبان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nabil_Shaban"
    title: "Nabil Shaban"
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  - url: "https://ms.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nabil_Shaban"
    title: "Nabil Shaban"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nabil_Shaban"
    title: "Nabil Shaban"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3869782"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/229499"
    title: "Nabil Shaban"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump