Reza Shafiei-Jam

About رضا شفیعی جم

Reza Shafiei-Jam, born in 1971, is an Iranian actor and comedian whose face is tied to two decades of popular Iranian TV comedy. He began in amateur theatre in the early 1990s. At 18 he was cast in the film Do Hamsafar.

The comedy years

Shafiei-Jam first worked in two cable-television comedies directed by Ali Omrani, Bachcheha and Jome Ba Shoma. His real breakthrough came with Saat-e Khosh. He went on to appear in many of the most-watched comedy series of the 1990s and 2000s, including Charkhooneh and Mehran Modiri's Barareh Nights, Noghteh Chin and Jayezeh-ye Bozorg.

He has also sung the end-credits songs of several films he starred in, such as Apache, The Redtails and Pishi Mishi. He directed the home-video film Vafa 2012 and has performed stand-up comedy on the TV show Khandevaneh.

On Pardeh

His five Pardeh titles are mostly comedies:
- Sweet Life (Zendegi-ye Shirin, 2009)
- The Redtails (Dom Sorkhha, 2018), an adventure comedy
- Baba Sibiloo (2019), a family comedy
- Singing in Sleep (Avaz dar Khab, 2019)

He also appears in the family drama series The Demon and the Forehead Moon (Div o Mah Pishooni).

Biographical facts: Wikidata.

Shared cast credits

People credited in the same titles on Pardeh:

• علی صادقی · 3 shared titles
• Behnoush Bakhtiari · 2 shared titles
• Javad Razavian · 2 shared titles
• اردشیر کاظمی · 1 shared title
• افسانه بایگان · 1 shared title
• امیرحسین صدیق · 1 shared title