Reza Naji

Born: 1942-12-26

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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Children of Heaven

as Ali's Father
Released: 1997-08-01

Zohre's shoes are gone; her older brother Ali lost them. They are poor, there are no shoes for...

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Baran

as Memar
Released: 2001-01-31

On a building site in present-day Tehran, Lateef, a 17-year-old Turkish worker is irresistibly...

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Autumn

as Yusuf (as Reza Naji)
Released: 2010-11-01

Rafiq and his family are struggling to come to terms with the loss of his older brother Tauqir,...

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Winners

as Naser Khan
Released: 2023-03-17

In a small provincial Iranian town, the children work hard to support their families. One day...

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The Song of Sparrows

as Karim
Released: 2008-10-01

When an ostrich-rancher focuses on replacing his daughter's hearing aid, which breaks right...

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Shiva

as uncredited
Released: 2014-11-13

Shiva is a girl

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The Willow Tree

as Morteza
Released: 2005-08-11

Youssef, a blind university professor, is suddenly diagnosed with a fatal disease and must...

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Circle of Death

as uncredited
Released: 1993-12-31

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Sperm Whale

as Panah
Released: 2015-05-20

Arjang, who was born before the revolution in Iran, has been in love with his childhood...

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Sly

as uncredited
Released: 2018-04-20

Ghodrat Samadi wants to become a member of parliament, but he has a reputation for recklessness...

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Texas 2

as Yavar
Released: 2019-04-10

Sasan and Bahram are back to Iran and Alice is with them too. Babak's father and Sasan's mother...

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Sperm Whale: Roya's Selection

as uncredited
Released: 2017-10-06

Arjang, A 50-year old man, has loved Roya from his childhood years but he has failed to marry...

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Projectionist

as jalil's father
Released: 2024-03-12

The story of this film is a loose adaptation of a novel of the same name written by Ruhollah...

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Birth of a Butterfly

as uncredited
Released: 2000-01-01

Tensions abound in the relationships featured in the three episodes which make up the film -...

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We Are All Together

as uncredited
Released: 2019-06-05

The adventure of a plane crash with passengers who have different secrets; the secrets that are...

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The Little Bird Boy

as uncredited
Released: 2002-08-23

With his father in jail, probably for smuggling alcohol across the barbed-wire border, Behruz...

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The Redtails

as uncredited
Released: 2018-08-01

Two youngsters Bahman and Nader who must go to the military service and are searching for a way...

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Bench Cinema

as Prison Guard
Released: 2016-10-22

Nasi spends months after release from prison, watching the films and memorizes all the lines. He...

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Newcastle

as uncredited
Released: 2019-07-17

There is an old house in which some people are living without its owner's permission. Once, the...

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Ziba and I

as uncredited
Released: 2013-01-01

On a rainy cold night, Raheleh cannot survive travail and dies before her husband Mousa arrives...

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Angels Come Together

as uncredited
Released: 2014-02-01

Ahmad is a clergy man who has a quiet and lovely life with her wife. However, his life changes...

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Wind Blows in the Meadow

as uncredited
Released: 2009-06-07

Shooka, a spirited, hardworking girl from an Iranian mountain village is to be married in an...

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Kandaloos Gardens

as uncredited
Released: 2004-04-01

Kaveh ( Mohammad Reza Foroutan ) and Aban ( Khazar Masoumi ), a young couple who fell in love...

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Apache

as uncredited
Released: 2022-03-15

You always have to think of a way to invade the Apaches. Unless you know what lies ahead...

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The Sorcerer

as uncredited
First aired: 2022-05-16

Qudrat and Jahangir, famous falsifiers wanted by the police, intend to flee the country, but the...

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