Babek Ahmadpour

Career overview

Babak Ahamadpour, also known by variants such as Babek Ahmed Poor and Babek Ahmedpour, is an Iranian actor born in the village of Koker in Rudbar County, Gilan Province of Iran. His birth year is noted as 1979 or 1358 in the Persian calendar. He grew up with almost no exposure to media, later recalling that he and others had never seen television or a camera and did not even know what film was before late-1986, when director Abbas Kiarostami arrived.

Ahamadpour is well known in Iranian cinema and cinephile circles for his role as the main protagonist, Ahmed Ahmadpour, in the film Where Is The Friend's, directed by Abbas Kiarostami. The film is widely considered one of the greatest works of Iranian and global cinema. In the production, he acted alongside his brother, who has a similarly spelled name, Ahmad Ahamdpour, and played the character's best friend, Mohammad Reza Nematzadeh.

According to available data regarding his acting career, Babek Ahmadpour holds six known credits on the Movie Database platform, where his place of birth is listed as Koker, Iran, and his gender is male.