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.
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Reza Naji Biography / Wiki
| Name | Reza Naji |
| Also Know | Mohammad Amir Naji, Ù…Øمدرضا امیرناجی, Mohammad Reza Amir Naji, Mohammad Reza Naji, رضا ناجی, Ù…Øمد امیر ناجی |
| Gender | Male |
| Known For | Acting |
| Place of Birth | Tabriz, Iran |
| Date of Birth | 1942-12-26 |
| Age(as in 2022) | 79 |
| Deathday |
Reza Naji Acting Movies
| Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
| Children of Heaven | Ali’s Father | 1997-08-01 | Zohre’s shoes are gone; her older brother Ali lost them. They are poor, there are no shoes for Zohre until they come up with an idea: they will share … |
| The Song of Sparrows | Karim | 2008-10-01 | When an ostrich-rancher focuses on replacing his daughter’s hearing aid, which breaks right before crucial exams, everything changes for a struggling … |
| Autumn | Yusuf (as Reza Naji) | 2010-11-01 | Rafiq and his family are struggling to come to terms with the loss of his older brother Tauqir, a tourist photographer, who is one of the thousands of… |
| Bench Cinema | 2016-10-22 | Nasi spends months after release from prison, watching the films and memorizes all the lines. He then travels around to perform the films as a one man… | |
| Birth of a Butterfly | 2000-01-01 | Tensions abound in the relationships featured in the three episodes which make up the film – that between two young children and their stepfather, a c… | |
| Winners | 2022-08-13 | Two children find an awards statue in Iran and try to find the owner… | |
| Tunnel 18 | Khan | 1997-02-13 | Tunnel 18 (Persian: تونل 18‎‎) is a 1997 Iranian Historical drama film written and directed by Hossein Shahabi (Persian: Øسین شهابی)… |
| Baran | Memar | 2001-01-31 | In a building site in present-day Tehran, Lateef, a 17-year-old Turkish worker is irresistibly drawn to Rahmat, a young Afghan worker. The revelation … |
| Wind Blows in the Meadow | 2009-06-07 | Shooka, a spirited, hardworking girl from an Iranian mountain village is to be married in an arranged marriage. Shokrollah, her neighbor with Down syn… | |
| The Little Bird Boy | 2002-08-23 | With his father in jail, probably for smuggling alcohol across the barbed-wire border, Behruz and his family are destitute. His love of birds and tale… | |
| Ziba and I | 2013-01-01 | On a rainy cold night, Raheleh cannot survive travail and dies before her husband Mousa arrives home. For the rest of life, Mousa accuses himself for … | |
| Angels Come Together | 2014-02-01 | Ahmad is a clergy man who has a quiet and lovely life with her wife. However, his life changes when her wife becomes pregnant. Economical pressure cau… | |
| Apache | 2022-03-15 | You always have to think of a way to invade the Apaches. Unless you know what lies ahead…… | |
| The Willow Tree | Morteza | 2005-08-11 | Youssef, a blind university professor, is suddenly diagnosed with a fatal disease and must undergo treatment in France. Back home, will he find the li… |
| Kandaloos Gardens | 2004-04-01 | Kaveh ( Mohammad Reza Foroutan ) and Aban ( Khazar Masoumi ), a young couple who fell in love with the heroes of our story, are foreshadowed by Bijan,… | |
| Shiva | 2014-11-13 | Shiva is a girl… | |
| Sly | 2018-04-20 | Ghodrat Samadi wants to become a member of parliament, but he has a reputation for recklessness and taking arbitrary action. Deciding his best course … | |
| The Redtails | 2018-08-01 | Two youngsters Bahman and Nader who must go to the military service and are searching for a way to escape from that meet each other and become friends… | |
| Newcastle | 2019-07-17 | There is an old house in which some people are living without its owner’s permission. Once, the people living there find out that the owner of the hou… | |
| Sperm Whale: Roya’s Selection | 2017-10-06 | Arjang, A 50-year old man, has loved Roya from his childhood years but he has failed to marry her due to some reasons. Roya migrates to the united sta… | |
| We Are All Together | 2019-06-05 | The adventure of a plane crash with passengers who have different secrets; the secrets that are not supposed to remain hidden forever…… | |
| Texas 2 | Yavar | 2019-04-10 | Sasan and Bahram are back to Iran and Alice is with them too. Babak’s father and Sasan’s mother come to airport to take them home but they don’t know … |
| Circle of Death | 1993-12-31 | No description… | |
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