Babak Karimi (Persian: بابک کریمی‎, born 1960) is an Iranian actor. For his role in A Separation, he won the Silver Bear for Best Actor (as part of ensemble) at 61st Berlin International Film Festival in 2011.

Filmography

• 2026Balcanica — Jalil
• 2026Somewhere Between Memories
• Azaazil
• 2025Black Rabbit, White Rabbit — Babak / Antonio
• 2025Guardian of the Field — Helma's father
• Savushun
• 2025Sunshine Express — The Judge
• 2024Nosrat Karimi, Being an Artist in Iran — himself, Director, Producer
• Now (Aknoon)... — Actor's Assistant
• 2023Fossil — Khosravi (Savaki)
• Set Me Free
• 2023Terrestrial Verses — (voice)
• 2023The Strait — Hashem
• 2023Vanished — The old man
• 2022(Im)perfetti Criminali — Amir
• 2022Bucharest
• 2022I Am Forough
• 2022Lawless City — Salar
• 2022Odyssey of Solitude — Victor
• The Lion Skin
• 2022The Loser Man
• 2022The Wastetown — Mohandes
• 2022Until Tomorrow — Mr. Mahmoudi
• 2022Visiting Time
• 2021At the End of Evin
• 2021Careless Crime — Mohsen
• 2021Free - Liberi — Antonio
• I Want To Be Alive
• 2021Majority — Doctor
• Once Upon a Time in Iran — Haji Zarrabi
• 2021Zeros and Ones — Mullah
• 2020Bad Habits Die Hard — Barbone
• 2020Cinema Shahre Gheseh
• 2020Dio salvi la regina — Apolide
• 2020No Choice — Karim
• 2020The Life Ahead — Mr. Hamil
• 2020Timo's Winter
• 2020Yalda — Ayat
• 2018Delay
• 2018Invasion To Interpretation
• 2018The Role
• The Vertical Line
• 2017A Wedding — Mansoor Kazim
• 2017Gaze
• 2017Invasion — Babak
• 2017The Girl's House
• 2017The Last Prosecco — Zio Cyrus
• 2016Death of the Fish
• 2016The Salesman — Babak
• 2014I Hate the Dawn
• 2014Il était une fois... Une séparation
• 2013Fish & Cat — Babak
• 2013No Where No Body
• 2013The Past — Shahryar
• 2011A Separation — Interrogator
• 2009Ex — Collega dottore
• 2009Green Days — Editor
• 2008Quiet Chaos — Mario
• 2007Last Minute Marocco — Zin Krisha
• 2006Nose Iranian Style — Editor
• 2005Tickets — Editor, Producer, First Assistant Director
• 2003The Island — Editor
• 2000Placido Rizzotto — Editor
• 1998I Briganti di Zabut — Editor
• 1997Marquise — Editor
• Morning is Close
• Muncher — Laborer
• The mirror man

Appearances as themselves (2)

• 2021The World in Shots — Self
• 200510 Days with Kiarostami — Self