Hamed Behdad

About حامد بهداد

Hamed Behdad is an Iranian actor and singer, born in Mashhad in November 1973. He grew up partly in Tehran, moved between Mashhad, Tehran and Nishabur during the war years, and later earned a bachelor's degree in acting from the Islamic Azad University in Tehran.

Career

Behdad's first film, End of the Game (2000), immediately brought him a Crystal Simorgh nomination for Best Actor at the Fajr Film Festival. He was nominated again for The Third Day (2006), in which he played an Iraqi officer who falls in love with an Iranian girl in besieged Khorramshahr. He won the Crystal Simorgh for Best Supporting Actor for Masoud Kimiai's Crime (2011). In 2019 he received the Golden Goblet for Best Actor at the Shanghai International Film Festival for Castle of Dreams. Among his best-known international titles is Bahman Ghobadi's No One Knows About Persian Cats.

Over his career he has been invited to work with many leading Iranian directors, including Abbas Kiarostami, Nasser Taghvai, Asghar Farhadi, Bahram Beyzaie, Dariush Mehrjui, Bahman Farmanara and Parviz Shahbazi.

Where to start on Pardeh

Boutique (2003) is one of his early films and a good starting point. Alive (Jandar) is a tense drama, while Sly (Marmooz) and Punch Drunk (Gijgah) show his comic and romantic side. For longer viewing, I Want to Live is a crime drama series. Vertigo (Sargijeh) and Criminal Persian Style (Eteraf Mikonam) are mystery series.

Biographical facts: Wikidata.

Shared cast credits

People credited in the same titles on Pardeh:

• آزاده صمدی · 3 shared titles
• باران کوثری · 2 shared titles
• افسانه چهره‌آزاد · 1 shared title
• امیرحسین رستمی · 1 shared title
• بابک حمیدیان · 1 shared title
• بهار کاتوزی · 1 shared title