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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.​


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Born:
Dec 26, 1942 In Tabriz, Iran
Movie/TV Credits:
9
First Appeared:
In the movie Children of Heaven 1997-08-01
Latest Project:
Movie Winners 2023-03-17
Known For
Poster of Sperm Whale: Roya's Selection
Poster of The Willow Tree
Poster of Baran
Poster of Children of Heaven
Filmography
Movie Winners Naser Khan 2023-03-17
Movie The Redtails 2018-08-01
Movie Sperm Whale: Roya's Selection 2017-10-06
Movie Bench Cinema Prison Guard 2016-10-22
Movie Sperm Whale Panah 2015-05-20
Movie The Willow Tree Morteza 2005-08-11
Movie Baran Memar 2001-01-31
Movie Birth of a Butterfly 2000-01-01
Movie Children of Heaven Ali's Father 1997-08-01
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