Homayoun Ershadi

 ( 1947 Births ) 

Homayoun Ershadi (also spelled Homayon Ershadi, ; born March 26, 1947) is an Iranian actor. He is known for his debut role in Taste of Cherry (1997), and several Iranian and other films since then, including European films like Agora or Hollywood films like The Kite Runner and Zero Dark Thirty.

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Early Life and education Homayoun Ershadi was born March 26, 1947 in Isfahan. He moved to Italy to study architecture at the Ca' Foscari University of Venice, graduating in 1970. He worked in Iran as an architect, before moving to Canada in 1979, following the Iranian Revolution. He and his wife settled in Vancouver, where he continued work as an architect. Ershadi returned to Iran in 1990, after he and his wife filed for divorce.

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Career Following Ershadi return to Iran, he settled in Tehran. Ershadi was discovered by director Abbas Kiarostami, while sitting in his car in traffic. Kiarostami approached him and requested him to play the leading role of his film, Taste of Cherry.

In 2007 he was cast in The Kite Runner, a film about two young boys growing up in Afghanistan.

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Personal life

Ershadi's two children live in Vancouver, a place he visits often to see his grandchildren.

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Awards

Ershadi won the Sepanta Awards in 2017 for "Best Actor for Short Film" for his work in Blue Lantern, from the 10th Annual Iranian Film Festival in San Francisco.

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Cultural reference

The short story Seeing Ershadi by Nicole Krauss was published in The New Yorker on 5 March 2018. It is about a ballet dancer who watches a film featuring Ershadi and then becomes obsessed with his face.

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Filmography

1997	Taste of Cherry	Mr Badii	Abbas Kiarostami
1998	The Pear Tree		Dariush Mehrjui
2002	Disturbant		Sirus Alvand
2005	Portrait of a Lady Far Away		Ali Mosaffa
2006	Color of Friend	Mr Jahangir	Bita Shafipour
2007	The Kite Runner	Baba	Marc Forster
2008	Aal		Bahram Bahramian
2009	Agora	Aspasius	Alejandro Amenábar
2011	Facing Mirrors	Pedar	Negar Azarbayjani
2012	Zero Dark Thirty	Hassan Ghul	Kathryn Bigelow
2013	Good to Be Back	Merati	Dariush Mehrjui
2014	A Most Wanted Man	Faisal Abdullah	Anton Corbijn
2014	Ghosts		Dariush Mehrjui
2015	Utopia		Hassan Nazer
2016	Ali and Nino		Asif Kapadia
2016	Blue Lantern		Reza Yarkhalaji
2016	The Last Inhabitant	Ibrahim	Jivan Avetisyan
2017	Lina	father	Ramin Rasouli
2019-2020	Mannequin (TV series)	Jamshid	Hossein Soheilizadeh
2020	No Choice		Reza Dormishian
2022	The Town		Ali Hazrati

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External links

Categories: 1947 Births, Iranian Male Television Actors, Iranian Male Film Actors, Living People, Actors From Isfahan, 20th-century Iranian Male Actors, 21st-century Iranian Male Actors

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