Born in 1986 in Iran, from Kurdish region of Ilam, he studied acting at Haft Honar Cultural Institute of Karaj. He has performed in more than 33 prestigious plays so far and has performed in 16 features, among which are Mohammad Shirvani’s banned “Fat Shaker” (Tiger Award at the Rotterdam International Film Festival/2014), Reza Dormishian‘s “I’m Not Angry!” (Berlinale/Panorama 2014 and the Best Actor Award of the Year atthe Annual Award Ceremony of Iranian Society of Film Critics & Writers), a leading role in Ida Panahandeh’s Nahid (winner of the Promising FuturePrize, Un Certain Regard of Cannes 2015) and in 2017 in Vahid Jalilvand’s “No Date, No Signature” for which he received the Best Actor award inthe Orizzonti Competition of Venice 2017 and Best Actor Award, Tehran’s Fajr Film Festival 2017. He was in the Competition of Orizzonti Venice2019 with Saeed Roustayi’s “Just 6.5.”
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