Bahram Radan

About Bahram Radan

Bahram Radan, born in Tehran in 1979, is one of the most popular Iranian film stars of the past two decades. He was studying business management when he enrolled in an acting course at the Hiva Film school in 1999. In the same year he was cast in Nader Moghaddas's The Passion of Love (2000), which became one of the year's biggest box-office hits in Iran.

Awards and major roles

His fourth film, Swan Song, brought him a Best Actor nomination at the House of Cinema awards. He then won the Crystal Simorgh for Best Actor at the Fajr Film Festival twice: for A Candle in the Wind (2003) and for Dariush Mehrjui's Santouri (The Music Man). He also has a Hafez Award. Later he moved into producing, and his production Grassland was nominated for Best Film at Fajr. From 2021 to 2023 he played Naser al-Din Shah in the romantic period series Jeyran.

Outside acting, Radan was named the first Iranian UN ambassador against hunger in 2010 and released a music album, The Other Side, in 2012.

Watch on Pardeh

Santouri, the story of a santour player's fall into addiction, is the essential Radan film on Pardeh. Mani Haghighi's Kanaan and the romantic drama A Tale of Love are also here. Polaris and The Black Cat are family dramas, and Tsunami and Pinto (Ablagh) are more recent dramas.

Biographical facts: Wikidata.

Shared cast credits

People credited in the same titles on Pardeh:

• رویا تیموریان · 2 shared titles
• آلیتسیا باخلدا · 1 shared title
• الناز شاکر دوست · 1 shared title
• الیزابت رم · 1 shared title
• امیرمهدی ژوله · 1 shared title
• بهاره کیان‌افشار · 1 shared title