Navid Mohammadzadeh

About Navid Mohammadzadeh

Navid Mohammadzadeh, born in 1986, is an Iranian actor of Kurdish heritage with family roots in Mehran, Ilam province, where he spent much of his childhood. He trained in theatre at several schools, including Soore University, the University of Tehran and the University of Cinema and Theatre. His teachers included Hamid Samandarian and Mohammad Yaghoubi.

Breakthrough performances

Mohammadzadeh first drew critical attention for I'm Not Angry! (2014), which brought him a Crystal Simorgh nomination for Best Actor at the Fajr Film Festival. He then won the Crystal Simorgh for Best Supporting Actor twice: for Saeed Roustaee's Life and a Day and for Vahid Jalilvand's No Date, No Signature. The second role also won him the Orizzonti Award for Best Actor at the 74th Venice International Film Festival in 2017. Over his career he has also collected several Hafez Awards and Iranian critics' awards.

He also briefly presented parts of the television programme Doostan on the Jam-e Jam channel in 2011 and 2012.

Watching him on Pardeh

Life and a Day (Abad va Yek Rooz) is the essential starting point, a family drama set in a poor neighbourhood of south Tehran. Leila's Brothers reunites him with Roustaee. Sound and Fury, Sheeple, The Warden and Beyond the Wall are intense dramas that show his range, and Zoodpaz is a more recent family drama. For series, The Frog and Actor are both available on Pardeh.

Biographical facts: Wikidata.

Shared cast credits

People credited in the same titles on Pardeh:

• پری‌ناز ایزدیار · 2 shared titles
• پیمان معادی · 2 shared titles
• فرهاد اصلانی · 2 shared titles
• گلاره عباسی · 2 shared titles
• Setareh Pesyani · 2 shared titles
• آتیلا پسیانی · 1 shared title