Hamed Behdad

Hamed Behdad (Persian: حامد بهداد; born November 17, 1973) is an Iranian actor and singer. He has received various accolades, including a Crystal Simorgh, a Hafez Award, an Iran Cinema Celebration Award and two Iran's Film Critics and Writers Association Awards. He has won the Golden Goblet Award for Best Actor at the 2019 Shanghai International Film Festival for his role in Castle of Dreams (2019).

Hamed Behdad
حامد بهداد
Behdad at the 2015 Fajr International Film Festival
Born	(1973-11-17) November 17, 1973 Mashhad, Iran
Nationality	Iranian
Occupations	Actor singer
Years active	2000–present
Website	Official website

Early life

Hamed Behdad was born on 17 November 1973 in Mashhad, Iran. He has lived his childhood and youth in Mashhad, Tehran, and Nishabur in a row.

Behdad has returned to his hometown, Mashhad, again with his family when he was a high school freshman. He holds a bachelor's degree in Fine Arts Acting from Islamic Azad University of Tehran, Iran.

Career

Behdad was first introduced to Iran's Cinema with the movie, End of Game. He was then, nominated for Crystal Simorgh in the Fajr Film Festival for the Best First Actor for this movie.

In continue, he has been performing many memorable strong supporting roles in Iran's Cinema.

Behdad played as an Iraqi army officer in the movie Third Day in 2006. In this role, he is falling in love with an Iranian girl who lived in Khoramshahr, where it was in the siege of Iraq at that time. He again, for the second time, was nominated for Crystal Simorgh award in 25th Fajr Film Festival. He played his role in this movie that impressive that it drew a lot of attention from everyone of the contemporaneous filmmakers and critics.

Behdad's success in movie No One Knows About Persian Cats directed by Bahman Ghobadi qualified him to have an access to the Cannes Film Festival.

He received Crystal Simorgh Prize for Best Supporting Actor for his incredible role-playing in movie Crime directed by Masoud Kimiai in 29th Fajr Film Festival.

Behdad has also received critical acclaim for roles in films such as Boutique, Third Day, No One Knows About Persian Cats, Felicity Land, Crime, Hard Makeup, It Happened at Midnight, Blockage and Castle of Dreams.

During his path of career, he had great opportunities to cooperate with many of so successful and famous Iranian directors as Abbas Kiyarostami, Naser Taghvai, Masoud Kimiai and Dariush Mehrjui however unfortunately some of these cooperation have not been released yet.

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Director	Notes
2001	The End of Game	Pouya Sadeghi	Homayoun As'adian	Nominated – Crystal Simorgh Fajr Film Festival Award for Best Actor
2003	The Woman Keeps Silent	Soroush	Ahmad Amini
2004	Boutique	Mehrdad	Hamid Nematollah	Nominated – Iran Cinema Celebration Award for Best Supporting Actor
2006	Cafe Setareh	Khosrow	Saman Moghaddam	Nominated – Hafez Award for Best Actor Motion Picture Nominated – Iran Cinema Celebration Award for Best Supporting Actor
	5 P.M Ferdous Park	Bahram	Siamak Shayeghi
2007	Adam	Sehat Mohebat	Abdolreza Kahani
	The Third Day	Foad	Mohammad Hossein Latifi	Nominated – Crystal Simorgh Fajr Film Festival Award for Best Supporting Actor Won – Hafez Award for Best Actor Motion Picture Nominated – Iran Cinema Celebration Award for Best Actor
2008	Hidden Feeling	Bahram Toloui	Mostafa Razagh Karimi	Nominated – Iran Cinema Celebration Award for Best Supporting Actor
	Tambourine	Peugeot 206 Driver	Parisa Bakhtavar
	Layla's Majnun	Hedayat	Ghasem Jafari
	Two Solutions for One Problem		Ghasem Jafari
2009	The Day Goes and the Night Comes	Siavash Kasrai	Omid Bonakdar, Keyvan Alimohammadi	Nominated – Iran Cinema Celebration Award for Best Supporting Actor
	Every Night, Loneliness	Hamid Rahmani	Rasul Sadr Ameli
	Bleeding Heart	Emad	Mohammad Reza Rahmani
	Trial on the Street	Habib	Masoud Kimiai
	A Man Who Ate His Cherries		Peyman Haghani	Cameo
	The Third Wave	Babak	Arash Sajadi Hosseini
	No One Knows About Persian Cats	Nader	Bahman Ghobadi
2010
	Pay Back	Hamid	Tahmineh Milani
	Assassin	Hamid Zahedi	Reza Karimi
	Life with Closed Eyes	Ali Fakhar	Rasul Sadr Ameli
	Elixir And Dust	Haj Mohsen	Abbas Rafei	Nominated – Iran's Film Critics and Writers Association Award for Best Supporting Actor
	Please Do Not Disturb	Repairman	Mohsen Abdolvahab
	Seven Minutes Until Autumn	Farhad	Alireza Amini	Nominated – Crystal Simorgh Fajr Film Festival Award for Best Supporting Actor Nominated – Hafez Award for Best Actor Motion Picture Nominated – Iran Cinema Celebration Award for Best Actor
2011	Wakefulness	Mohammad	Farzad Motamen
	Non-profit Graveyard	Captain	Mohsen Damadi	Cameo
	At the End of 8th Street	Moosa	Alireza Amini	Nominated – Iran Cinema Celebration Award for Best Supporting Actor
	Blood Orange	Siavash Khodabandeh	Sirus Alvand
	Crime	Naser	Masoud Kimiai	Won – Crystal Simorgh Fajr Film Festival Award for Best Supporting Actor
	Felicity Land	Mohsen Tanbakooi	Maziar Miri	Nominated – Iran's Film Critics and Writers Association Award for Best Actor
2012	Bita Is Restless	Amir	Mehrdad Farid
	The Last Step		Ali Mosaffa	Cameo
	The Orange Suit	Hamed Aban	Dariush Mehrjui
2013	The Fourth Child	Ebrahim	Vahid Mousaian
	Good to Be Back	Dr. Farzad Matin	Dariush Mehrjui
2014	Hard Makeup	Masoud	Hamid Nematollah	Nominated – Crystal Simorgh Fajr Film Festival Award for Best Actor Nominated – Hafez Award for Best Actor Motion Picture Nominated – Iran Cinema Celebration Award for Best Actor Nominated – Iran's Film Critics and Writers Association Award for Best Actor
	Life Is Elsewhere	Davood	Manouchehr Hadi
	The Girl's House	Mansour	Shahram Shah Hosseini	Nominated – Iran's Film Critics and Writers Association Award for Best Actor Won – Iranian Film Festival Australia Award for Best Actor
2015	There Will Be Blood on Wednesday	Morteza	Hamase Parsa
2016	Never		Hadi Moghadamdoost
	7 Months Pregnant	Mehrdad	Hatef Alimardani
	It Happened at Midnight	Hossein	Tina Pakravan	Nominated – Iran Cinema Celebration Award for Best Actor
2017	Blockage	Ghasem	Mohsen Gharaie	Nominated – Hafez Award for Best Actor Motion Picture Won – Iran Cinema Celebration Award for Best Actor Won – Iran's Film Critics and Writers Association Award for Best Actor Nominated – Urban International Film Festival Award for Best Actor Won – Malaysia International Film Festival Award for Best Actor
2018	Sly	Ghodratollah Samadi	Kamal Tabrizi	Won – Cine-Iran Festival of Toronto Award for Best Actor
2019	Alive	Naeem	Hossein Amiri Doomari, Pedram Pouramiri
	Castle of Dreams	Jalal	Reza Mirkarimi	Nominated – Crystal Simorgh Fajr Film Festival Award for Best Actor Nominated – Hafez Award for Best Actor Motion Picture Won – Iran Cinema Celebration Award for Best Actor Won – Iran's Film Critics and Writers Association Award for Best Actor Won – Shanghai International Film Festival Golden Goblet Award for Best Actor Nominated – Asian Film Award for Best Actor Nominated – Urban International Film Festival Award for Best Actor Won – Cyrus International Film Festival Award for Best Actor Won – Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival Award for Best International Actor
2021	Punch Drunk	Hassan Khoshnood	Adel Tabrizi	Won – Iran International FICTS Festival Award for Best National Actor in a Feature Film
2024	The Old Bachelor		Oktay Baraheni
	Go Free		Adel Tabrizi
TBA	Bob Marley		Davood Khayambazi	Post-production
TBA	Red Glasses		Hossein Mahkam	Post-production

Web

Year	Title	Role	Director	Platform
2016	Golden Tooth	Bolbol / Atash	Davood Mirbagheri	Video CD
2019–2020	Heart	Arash Sepanta	Manouchehr Hadi	Namava, Filimo
2021	I Want to Live	Amir Shaygan	Sharam Shah Hosseini	Filimo
2023	Vertigo	Peyman Pouyesh	Behrang Tofighi	Namava
	Turkish Coffee	Danial Azin	Alireza Amini	Filmnet
TBA	Heartless		Kamal Tabrizi	I Net

Television

Year	Title	Role	Director	Notes	Network
2000	Fellow Traveler	Siamak	Ghasem Jafari	TV series	IRIB TV3
2002	Searching in the City	Guilty	Hassan Hedayat	TV series	IRIB TV5
2005	Sun's Shadow	Reza	Mohammad Reza Ahanj	TV series	IRIB TV3
2008	One Fist of Eagle Feather	Amir Hossein Daneshvar	Asghar Hashemi	TV series	IRIB TV1
2009	The Last Invitation	Emad Khalili	Hossein Soheilizadeh	TV series	IRIB TV2
2011	Free Fall	Major Amir Saberi	Alireza Amini	TV series	IRIB TV1
2015	My Sky	Mohsen	Mohammad Reza Ahanj	TV series	IRIB Ofogh
2015–2016	Kimia	Mohammad Jahan Ara	Javad Afshar	TV series	IRIB TV2
2015	Red Hat 94	Himself	Iraj Tahmasb	TV program	IRIB TV2

External links

• Hamed Behdad on Instagram
• Hamed Behdad at IMDb