Reza Naji

Acting

Born December 26, 1942, Tabriz, Iran

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.​

Filmography

• 2025Red Shades
• Occasion — Haj Ghorban
• 2024Projectionist — jalil's father
• 2023Crab
• 2023Winners — Naser Khan
• 2022Apache
• The Sorcerer
• 2020After the Incident
• 2019Newcastle
• 2019Texas 2 — Yavar
• 2019The Maiden Tower
• 2019We Are All Together
• 2018Sly
• 2018The Redtails
• Next Door Neighbor
• 2017Sperm Whale: Roya's Selection
• 2016Bench Cinema — Prison Guard
• 2015Hamsar dot com
• 2015Sperm Whale — Panah
• 2014Angels Come Together
• 2014Angels Descend Together — Mohammad Amir Naji
• 2014Chartered to Azadi
• 2014Shiva
• 2013Ziba and I
• Forgotten — Karam
• Wave and Rock
• 2010Autumn — Yusuf (as Reza Naji)
• 2010Maman, Behrouz Hits Me!
• 2010Mom! Behrouz Hit Me
• 2009Parvaze Morghabiha
• 2009Wind Blows in the Meadow
• 2008The Song of Sparrows — Karim
• 2005The Willow Tree — Morteza
• 2004Kandaloos Gardens
• 2002The Little Bird Boy
• 2001Baran — Memar
• 2000Birth of a Butterfly
• 1997Children of Heaven — Ali's Father
• 1997Tunnel 18 — Khan
• The Ride