Homayoun Ershadi

Homayoun Ershadi (also spelled Homayon Ershadi, Persian: همایون ارشادی; born March 26, 1947) is an Iranian actor, known for his debut role in Taste of Cherry (1997), and several Iranian and other films since then, including Hollywood movies The Kite Runner and Zero Dark Thirty.

Homayoun Ershadi
همایون ارشادی
Ershadi in 2016
Born	(1947-03-26) March 26, 1947 (age 77) Iran
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1995–present

Biography

Ershadi studied architecture in Italy, graduating in 1970 and worked as an architect for many years.^[1]

He was discovered as an actor by acclaimed Iranian New Wave film director, Abbas Kiarostami. 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]

In 2007 he was cast in The Kite Runner, a film about two young boys growing up in Afghanistan.^[1]

Awards

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 on 5 March 2018. It is about a ballet dancer who watches a film featuring Ershadi and then becomes obsessed with his face.^[3]

Filmography

Year	Title	Role	Director	Ref.
1997	Taste of Cherry	Mr Badii	Abbas Kiarostami	[4][5]
1998	The Pear Tree		Dariush Mehrjui	[6]
2002	Disturbant		Sirus Alvand
2005	Portrait of a Lady Far Away		Ali Mosaffa	[4]
2006	Color of Friend	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	father	Ramin Rasouli	[13]
2019-2020	Mannequin (TV series)	Jamshid	Hossein Soheilizadeh
2020	No Choice		Reza Dormishian
2022	The Town		Ali Hazrati

References

1. Kerr, Euan (27 December 2007). "Homayoun Ershadi's strange trip to stardom". Minnesota Public Radio (MPR). Retrieved 1 April 2016.
2. "Winners of 2017 'Sepanta Awards' at 10th Annual Iranian Film Festival in San Francisco announced". Payvand.com. 10 February 2017. Archived from the original on 5 June 2018. Retrieved 22 December 2017.
3. Krauss, Nicole (26 February 2018). ""Seeing Ershadi"". The New Yorker. ISSN 0028-792X. Retrieved 23 November 2019.
4. "Review: 'Portrait of a Lady Far Away'". Variety Magazine. Penske Business Media LLC. 5 July 2005.
5. Holden, Stephen (20 March 1998). "'Taste of Cherry': Simultaneously Epic and Precisely Minuscule". The New York Times. Retrieved 23 November 2019.
6. "The Pear Tree". The Film Sufi. 28 February 2013. Retrieved 1 April 2016.
7. French, Howard W. (31 December 2006). "Where to Shoot an Epic About Afghanistan? China, Where Else?". The New York Times. pp. (p. 2). Retrieved 15 February 2007.
8. Perry, Byron (24 February 2008). "Homayoun Ershadi". Variety. Retrieved 23 November 2019.
9. Scheib, Ronnie (7 September 2011). "Facing Mirrors". Variety. Retrieved 23 November 2019.
10. Debruge, Peter (5 February 2016). "Sundance Film Review: 'Ali and Nino'". Variety Magazine. Retrieved 1 April 2016.
11. "Blue Lantern". Iranian Film Festival. 2017. Retrieved 23 November 2019.
12. "Film Production: The Last Inhabitant". National Cinema Center of Armenia (NCCA). Archived from the original on 17 August 2016. Retrieved 22 November 2019.
13. "Iran, Afghan Actors in 3-Nation Production". Financial Tribune. 20 September 2017. Retrieved 16 November 2021.

External links

• Homayon Ershadi at IMDb