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Reza Naji
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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 wo…
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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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Red Shades
Projectionist
as jalil's father
Winners
as Naser Khan
Crab
No Poster
Apache
After the Incident
Newcastle
We Are All Together
Texas 2
as Yavar
The Maiden Tower
The Redtails
Sly
Sperm Whale: Roya's Selection
Bench Cinema
as Prison Guard
Hamsar dot com
Sperm Whale
as Panah
No Poster
Shiva
No Poster
Angels Descend Together
as Mohammad Amir Naji
Chartered to Azadi
Angels Come Together
Ziba and I
Maman, Behrouz Hits Me!
Autumn
as Yusuf (as Reza Naji)
Mom! Behrouz Hit Me
Wind Blows in the Meadow
No Poster
Parvaze Morghabiha
The Song of Sparrows
as Karim
The Willow Tree
as Morteza
Kandaloos Gardens
The Little Bird Boy
Baran
as Memar
Birth of a Butterfly
Children of Heaven
as Ali's Father
No Poster
Tunnel 18
as Khan
