Behzad Farahani (born 21 January 1945) is an Iran

Iran

Iran , officially the Islamic Republic of Iran , is a country in Southern and Western Asia. The name "Iran" has been in use natively since the Sassanian era and came into use internationally in 1935, before which the country was known to the Western world as Persia...

ian actor

Actor

An actor is a person who acts in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio in that capacity...

 and screenwriter

Screenwriter

Screenwriters or scriptwriters or scenario writers are people who write/create the short or feature-length screenplays from which mass media such as films, television programs, Comics or video games are based.-Profession:...

. He is the father of actresses Shaghayegh Farahani

Shaghayegh Farahani

Shaghayegh Farahani is an Iranian actress. She is the daughter of actor Behzad Farahani and sister of actress Golshifteh Farahani.-Selected filmography:* Leila, 1996* Totia* Love is not Enough, 1998* Nights of Tehran...

 and Golshifteh Farahani

Golshifteh Farahani

Golshifteh Farahani is a Crystal-Simorgh winning Iranian actress and pianist.- Early life :Golshifteh Farahani was born on 10 July 1983 in Tehran, the daughter of actor/theater director Behzad Farahani and his spouse, Fahime Rahiminia and sister of actress Shaghayegh Farahani. She started studying...

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Biography

Farahani was born in Farahan, Iran

Iran

Iran , officially the Islamic Republic of Iran , is a country in Southern and Western Asia. The name "Iran" has been in use natively since the Sassanian era and came into use internationally in 1935, before which the country was known to the Western world as Persia...

. After passing a theater course in France

France

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, he began stage acting in 1959, and he started film acting shortly after, acting in Motallebi's The Tryst of Rage in 1971. He began his career as screenwriter with the same film, has many years of experience in playwriting, and has worked as performer in radio plays, television series, and teleplays.

Filmography

• Violent Punishment, 1971
• Journey of the Stone, 1978
• Wage, 1989
• Zero Heights, 1993
• Years of Restlessness, 1994
• The Kind Moon, 1995
• Sheida, 1998
• Killing Mad Dogs, 2000