Davood Ghadami is an actor, born in Harlow, Essex, UK. He is best known for playing the role of Kush Kazemi in the BBC soap EastEnders (1985) from 2014 to 2021, and went on to play Eli Ebrahimi in the long running BBC medical drama Holby City (1999) from 2021 until the show's conclusion in 2022. In 2017 Davood competed in the 15th series of Strictly Come Dancing (2004).