Amir Aghaei

About امیر آقایی

Amir Aghaei is an Iranian actor and author born in Urmia. He studied theatre, and besides acting he paints, takes photographs and writes poetry. He has exhibited his artwork in galleries and published a poetry collection, Willows in the Wind (2010).

Career

Aghaei made his film debut in Ebrahim Hatamikia's Low Heights (2002). He describes The Second Woman as perhaps his most unusual role. His other films include Elixir and Dust, Hell, Purgatory, Heaven, Death Is My Trade, Sa'adat Abad, Hush! Girls Don't Scream, Wednesday, May 9 and Mermaid. On television he appeared in The First Night of Peace, The Innocents, The Red Soil and The Gift of Darkness.

His work in Vahid Jalilvand's No Date, No Signature earned him a Crystal Simorgh nomination for Best Actor at the Fajr Film Festival. His supporting role in Mohammad Kart's Drown (Shenaye Parvaneh) won him the Crystal Simorgh for Best Supporting Actor.

On Pardeh

Drown is the natural place to start, a mystery drama. Russian (Roosi) is a romantic crime drama, Karzar a family drama, and Beyond the Wall a tense social drama. We're All Sinners is one of his earlier films. For series, Beretta: The Story of a Gun is a crime mystery and Notorious (Badnam) is a family drama.

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Shared cast credits

People credited in the same titles on Pardeh:

• مهدی حسینی‌نیا · 2 shared titles
• Tannaz Tabatabaei · 2 shared titles
• الهام حمیدی · 1 shared title
• حسن پورشیرازی · 1 shared title
• دانیال خیریخواه · 1 shared title
• دیانا حبیبی · 1 shared title