Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthdate
1942-12-26 (Age: 84)
Place of Birth
Tabriz, Iran
Reza Naji
Biography
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.
Filmography (31)
Red Shades
2025
Projectionist
2024
Winners
2023
Crab
2023
Apache
2022
Newcastle
2019
We Are All Together
2019
Texas 2
2019
The Maiden Tower
2019
The Redtails
2018
Sly
2018
Sperm Whale: Roya's Selection
2017
Bench Cinema
2016
