Shahab Hosseini
Biography
Shahab Hosseini is a male director and actor of theater, television, and cinema. He was born in Tehran, Iran, on February 4, 1974. He started his professional career by playing in Amir Ghavidel's Rokhsareh. He was nominated for Best Supporting Actor in the Fajr Festival for two consecutive years for A Candle in The Wind by Pouran Derakhshandeh and Salvation in Twenty minutes after Eight by Sirous Alvand. He subsequently won the Best Actor Award for the Fajr Festival for The Superstar by Tahmineh Milani. He won an Honorary Diploma of Best Supporting Actor in 2008 in Asghar Farhadi's movie About Elly, and also won the Best Actor Award at the Berlin Film Festival for the movie A Separation by Asghar Farhadi.
Career overview
Shahab Hosseini is a director and actor of theater, television, and cinema who was born in Tehran, Iran, on February 4, 1974. He began his professional career by playing in Amir Ghavidel's Rokhsareh.
He was nominated for Best Supporting Actor at the Fajr Festival for two consecutive years for his roles in A Candle in The Wind, directed by Pouran Derakhshandeh, and Salvation in Twenty minutes after Eight, directed by Sirous Alvand. Following these nominations, he won the Best Actor Award at the Fajr Festival for The Superstar, directed by Tahmineh Milani. In 2008, he won an Honorary Diploma for Best Supporting Actor in Asghar Farhadi's movie About Elly. He also won the Best Actor Award at the Berlin Film Festival for the movie A Separation by Asghar Farhadi.
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- Aban (2025) as Fariborz Sabeti
- Spotlight (2025)
- My Daughter's Hair (2025) as Tohid
- Intoxicated by Love (2024) as Shams ad-Din Tabrizi
- Fereshteh's Sin (2023) as Hamed Tehrani
- Parallax (2023) Producer
- Shukran (2023) as Taher
- Golden Blood (2023)
- The Lion Skin (2022)
- The Writer Is Dead (2022) Director
- The Night (2021) as Babak Naderi
- Residents of Nowhere (2021)
- Residents of Nowhere (2021) Screenplay
- Residents of Nowhere (2021) Director
- Nargesi (2021)
- Nargesi (2021) Producer
- Hamrefigh (2020) as Presenter
- Hamrefigh (2020) Presenter
- Hamrefigh (2020) Director
- Hamrefigh (2020) Creator
- Any Day Now (2020) as Bahman Mehdipouri
- HajDani és MajDani (2019) Visual Effects
- Labyrinth (2019)
- Lovely Trash (2019) as Mansoor
- Nabat (2019) as Saeed
- Confession (2018)
- Confession (2018) Director
- Gholam (2017) as Gholam
- Final Exam (2017) as Farhad
- My Brother Khosrow (2017) as Khosrow
- The Salesman (2016) as Emad Etesami
- Wednesday (2016)
- Parallel Shadows (2016)
- کربلا جغرافیای یک تاریخ (2016)
- Shahrzad (2015) as Ghobad Divansalar
- Sweet Taste of Imagination (2015)
- Sun of Midnight (2015)
- Sun of Midnight (2015) Producer
- A 5 Star (2014) as Reza Vahidi
- Time to Love (2014) as Hamid
- The Paternal House (2014) as Naser
- Resident of the Middle Floor (2014)
- Resident of the Middle Floor (2014) Director
- The Painting Pool (2013) as Reza
- Hush! Girls Don't Scream (2013) as Prosecutor
- Ziba and I (2013) as Jafar
- Someone Wants to Talk with You (2012)
- The Visitor (2012)
- The Visitor (2012) Director
- A Separation (2011) as Hojjat
- Snow on a Hot Tin Roof (2011)
- From Iran, a Separation (2011) as Self - Actor
- Goodbye (2011) as Husband
- Final Whistle (2011)
- Freeway (2011) as Pasha
- Just an hour ago (2011)
- Tabire Khab (2011)
- Shadow of Horror (2011)
- Africa (2010)
- Anahita (2010)
- A Walk in the Fog (2010) as Amin
- About Elly (2009) as Ahmad
- Superstar (2009)
- Heartbroken (2009) as Amir Ali
- Niloofar (2008)
- Mahya (2008)
- Sugarland (2008)
- Zero Degree Turn (2007) as Habib Parsa
- Unknown (2007)
- Loneliness (2007)
- Eternal Children (2006)
- The bottleneck (2006)
- 50 million proposal (2005) as Barmak
- Whirpool (2005)
- Salvation at 8:20 (2005)
- Online Murder (2005)
- A Candle in the Wind (2004)
- The Fifth Reaction (2003) as Majid
- This woman is not talking (2003)
- Poisonous Honey (2003)
- Rokhsareh (2002)
- Pas Az Baran (2000)
- U-Turn Producer
- Sheen
- Sheen Producer
- The Far Mountains