Reza Naji
Reza Naji is an Iranian actor and an iconic figure of Iranian cinema. Naji started his career in theater when he was a teenager. While serving in the Iranian army, he continued to perform in different roles. His first role in a film goes back to 1997 in Children of Heaven, which proved to be a breakthrough. For playing the role of Ali's father, director Majid Majidi was seeking an actor with an Azeri accent, and Naji was carefully selected from a group of 2,500 actors tested for the role. Since then, he has played several roles in Iranian films. Among his most notable performances is his appearance in "The Song of Sparrows", directed by renowned film director Majid Majidi, for which Naji won the Silver Bear at the Berlin Film Festival, and Best Performance by an Actor at the 2008 Asia Pacific Screen Awards. Description above from the Wikipedia article Reza Naji, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Credits
- 2024 · Occasion as Haj Ghorban
- 2024 · Projectionist as jalil's father
- 2023 · Winners as Naser Khan
- 2022 · The Sorcerer as
- 2022 · Apache as
- 2019 · Newcastle as
- 2019 · We Are All Together as
- 2019 · Texas 2 as Yavar
- 2018 · The Redtails as
- 2018 · Sly as
- 2017 · Sperm Whale: Roya's Selection as
- 2016 · Bench Cinema as Prison Guard
- 2015 · Sperm Whale as Panah
- 2014 · Shiva as
- 2014 · Angels Come Together as
- 2013 · Ziba and I as
- 2010 · Autumn as Yusuf (as Reza Naji)
- 2009 · Wind Blows in the Meadow as
- 2008 · The Song of Sparrows as Karim
- 2005 · The Willow Tree as Morteza
- 2004 · Kandaloos Gardens as
- 2002 · The Little Bird Boy as
- 2001 · Baran as Memar
- 2000 · Birth of a Butterfly as
- 1997 · Children of Heaven as Ali's Father
- 1997 · Tunnel 18 as Khan
- 1993 · Circle of Death as