Homayoun Ershadi
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Nationality | Iranian |
Occupation | Actor |
Years active | 1995–present |
Homayoun Ershadi (also spelled Homayon Ershadi, Persian: همایون ارشادی, born 25 March 1947) is an Iranian actor, best known for his role in the film Taste of Cherry.
Biography[]
Ershadi was born in Isfahan, Iran in 1947. He studied architecture in Italy and worked as an architect for many years.[1]
He was discovered as an actor by acclaimed Iranian New Wave film director, Abbas Kiarostami.[1] While Ershadi was sitting in his car in traffic in Tehran he was approached by Kiarostami and eventually chosen to play the leading role in the film, Taste of Cherry.[1] As a non-professional actor, who started acting in his middle age, he has had immediate success in both cinema and television, with his expressionless, relaxed face and monotonous voice often giving his characters an intellectual personality.
Ershadi won the Sepanta Awards in 2017 for "Best Actor for Short Film" for his work in Blue Lantern, from the 10th Annual Iranian Film Festival in San Francisco, California, US.[2]
Cultural reference[]
The short story Seeing Ershadi by Nicole Krauss was published in The New Yorker, 5 March 2018.[3] It is about a ballet dancer who watches a film featuring Ershadi and then becomes obsessed with his face.
Filmography[]
Year | Title (in English) | Role | Director | Notes |
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1997 | Taste of Cherry (Ta'm-e gilas) | Mr Badii | Abbas Kiarostami | [4][5] |
1998 | The Pear Tree (Derakht-e golabi) | Dariush Mehrjui | [6] | |
2002 | Disturbant (Mozahem) | Sirus Alvand | ||
2005 | Portrait of a Lady Far Away (Sima-ye zani dar doordast) | Ali Mosaffa | [4] | |
2006 | Color of Friend (Rang-e doost) | Mr Jahangir | Bita Shafipour | |
2007 | The Kite Runner | Baba | Marc Forster | [7] |
2008 | Aal | Bahram Bahramian | ||
2009 | Agora | Aspasius | Alejandro Amenábar | [8] |
2011 | Facing Mirrors | Pedar | Negar Azarbayjani | [9] |
2012 | Zero Dark Thirty | Hassan Ghul | Kathryn Bigelow | |
2013 | Good to Be Back | Merati | Dariush Mehrjui | |
2014 | A Most Wanted Man | Faisal Abdullah | Anton Corbijn | |
2014 | Ghosts | Dariush Mehrjui | ||
2015 | Utopia | Hassan Nazer | ||
2016 | Ali and Nino | Asif Kapadia | [10] | |
2016 | Blue Lantern | Reza Yarkhalaji | [11] | |
2016 | The Last Inhabitant | Ibrahim | Jivan Avetisyan | [12] |
2017 | Lina | [13] |
References[]
- ^ Jump up to: a b c Kerr, Euan (2007-12-27). "Homayoun Ershadi's strange trip to stardom". Minnesota Public Radio (MPR). Minnesota Public Radio (MPR). Retrieved 2016-04-01.
- ^ "Winners of 2017 'Sepanta Awards' at 10th Annual Iranian Film Festival in San Francisco announced". Payvand.com. February 10, 2017.
- ^ Krauss, Nicole (2018-02-26). ""Seeing Ershadi"". The New Yorker. ISSN 0028-792X. Retrieved 2019-11-23.
- ^ Jump up to: a b "Review: 'Portrait of a Lady Far Away'". Variety Magazine. Penske Business Media LLC. 2005-07-05.
- ^ Holden, Stephen (March 20, 1998). "'Taste of Cherry': Simultaneously Epic and Precisely Minuscule". The New York Times. Retrieved 2019-11-23.
- ^ "The Pear Tree". The Film Sufi. 2013-02-28. Retrieved 2016-04-01.
- ^ French, Howard W. (31 December 2006). "Where to Shoot an Epic About Afghanistan? China, Where Else?". The New York Times. pp. (p. 2). Retrieved 2007-02-15.
- ^ Perry, Byron (2008-02-24). "Homayoun Ershadi". Variety. Retrieved 2019-11-23.
- ^ Scheib, Ronnie (2011-09-07). "Facing Mirrors". Variety. Retrieved 2019-11-23.
- ^ Debruge, Peter (2016-02-05). "Sundance Film Review: 'Ali and Nino'". Variety Magazine. Retrieved 2016-04-01.
- ^ "Blue Lantern". Iranian Film Festival. 2017. Retrieved 2019-11-23.
- ^ "Film Production: The Last Inhabitant". National Cinema Center of Armenia (NCCA). Archived from the original on 2016. Retrieved 2019-11-22.
- ^ "Iran, Afghan Actors in 3-Nation Production". Financial Tribune. September 21, 2017.
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External links[]
- 1947 births
- Iranian male television actors
- Iranian male film actors
- Living people
- People from Isfahan
- 20th-century Iranian male actors
- 21st-century Iranian male actors
- Iranian actor stubs