Anslem Richardson is an actor, writer, artist and filmmaker; born in Brooklyn, NY and raised in Miami, FL.Richardson made The Tracking Board's Young & Hungry List of The Top 100 Writers On The Verge, and is a Writers Fellow at HBO and Screenwriting Fellow at Film Independent. He also earned the Tribeca All Access Creative Promise Award in Screenwriting and is a Staff Writer on NBC's Timeless (2016) and previously on TNT Network series Agent X (2015).As an actor, he is known for his recurring guest star role of Tahir Khaled on CBS's _"NCIS: Los Angeles" (2011-2016)_qv, and starring role in the Sundance Film Festival's Best of NEXT Award winning film Homewrecker (2010) and received the 2015 Best Actor Award for El Ganzo (2015) at Salento International Film Festival.