Homayoun Ershadi
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Early Life and education
Homayoun Ershadi was born March 26, 1947 in Isfahan.[1] 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.[2][3]
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.[3]
In 2007 he was cast in The Kite Runner, a film about two young boys growing up in Afghanistan.[3]
Personal life
Ershadi's two children live in Vancouver, a place he visits often to see his grandchildren.[4]
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, California.[5]
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.[6]
Filmography
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| 1997 | Taste of Cherry | Mr Badii | Abbas Kiarostami | [7][8] |
| 1998 | The Pear Tree | Dariush Mehrjui | [9] | |
| 2002 | Disturbant | Sirus Alvand | ||
| 2005 | Portrait of a Lady Far Away | Ali Mosaffa | [7] | |
| 2006 | Color of Friend | Mr Jahangir | Bita Shafipour | |
| 2007 | The Kite Runner | Baba | Marc Forster | [10] |
| 2008 | Aal | Bahram Bahramian | ||
| 2009 | Agora | Aspasius | Alejandro Amenábar | [11] |
| 2011 | Facing Mirrors | Pedar | Negar Azarbayjani | [12] |
| 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 | [13] | |
| 2016 | Blue Lantern | Reza Yarkhalaji | [14] | |
| 2016 | The Last Inhabitant | Ibrahim | Jivan Avetisyan | [15] |
| 2017 | Lina | father | Ramin Rasouli | [16] |
| 2019-2020 | Mannequin (TV series) | Jamshid | Hossein Soheilizadeh | |
| 2020 | No Choice | Reza Dormishian | ||
| 2022 | The Town | Ali Hazrati |
References
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External links
- Homayon Ershadi at IMDbTemplate:EditAtWikidataScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
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