# Hamed Behdad

Hamed Behdad (Persian: حامد بهداد; born November 17, 1973) is an Iranian actor and singer. He has received various accolades, including a Crystal Simorgh, a Hafez Award, an Iran Cinema Celebration Award and two Iran's Film Critics and Writers Association Awards. He has won the Golden Goblet Award for Best Actor at the 2019 Shanghai International Film Festival for his role in Castle of Dreams (2019).

## Early life

Hamed Behdad was born on 17 November 1973 in Mashhad, Iran. He has lived his childhood and youth in Mashhad, Tehran, and Nishabur in a row.
Behdad has returned to his hometown, Mashhad, again with his family when he was a high school freshman. He holds a bachelor's degree in Fine Arts Acting from Islamic Azad University of Tehran, Iran.

## Career

Behdad was first introduced to Iran's Cinema with the movie, End of Game. He was then, nominated for Crystal Simorgh in the Fajr Film Festival for the Best First Actor for this movie.
In continue, he has been performing many memorable strong supporting roles in Iran's Cinema.
Behdad played as an Iraqi army officer in the movie Third Day in 2006. In this role, he is falling in love with an Iranian girl who lived in Khoramshahr, where it was in the siege of Iraq at that time. He again, for the second time, was nominated for Crystal Simorgh award in 25th Fajr Film Festival. He played his role in this movie that impressive that it drew a lot of attention from everyone of the contemporaneous filmmakers and critics.
Behdad's success in movie No One Knows About Persian Cats directed by Bahman Ghobadi qualified him to have an access to the Cannes Film Festival.
He received Crystal Simorgh Prize for Best Supporting Actor for his incredible role-playing in movie Crime directed by Masoud Kimiai in 29th Fajr Film Festival.
Behdad has also received critical acclaim for roles in films such as Boutique, Third Day, No One Knows About Persian Cats, Felicity Land, Crime, Hard Makeup, It Happened at Midnight, Blockage and Castle of Dreams.
During his path of career, he had great opportunities to cooperate with many of so successful and famous Iranian directors as Abbas Kiyarostami, Naser Taghvai, Masoud Kimiai and Dariush Mehrjui however unfortunately some of these cooperation have not been released yet.

## Filmography
### Film

| Year | Title | Role | Director | Notes |
| 2001 | The End of Game | Pouya Sadeghi | Homayoun As'adian | Nominated – Crystal Simorgh Fajr Film Festival Award for Best Actor |
| 2003 | The Woman Keeps Silent | Soroush | Ahmad Amini | |
| 2004 | Boutique | Mehrdad | Hamid Nematollah | Nominated – Iran Cinema Celebration Award for Best Supporting Actor |
| 2006 | Cafe Setareh | Khosrow | Saman Moghaddam | Nominated – Hafez Award for Best Actor Motion Picture Nominated – Iran Cinema Celebration Award for Best Supporting Actor |
| 2006 | 5 P.M Ferdous Park | Bahram | Siamak Shayeghi | |
| 2007 | Adam | Sehat Mohebat | Abdolreza Kahani | |
| 2007 | The Third Day | Foad | Mohammad Hossein Latifi | Nominated – Crystal Simorgh Fajr Film Festival Award for Best Supporting Actor Won – Hafez Award for Best Actor Motion Picture Nominated – Iran Cinema Celebration Award for Best Actor |
| 2008 | Hidden Feeling | Bahram Toloui | Mostafa Razagh Karimi | Nominated – Iran Cinema Celebration Award for Best Supporting Actor |
| 2008 | Tambourine | Peugeot 206 Driver | Parisa Bakhtavar | |
| 2008 | Layla's Majnun | Hedayat | Ghasem Jafari | |
| 2008 | Two Solutions for One Problem | | Ghasem Jafari | |
| 2009 | The Day Goes and the Night Comes | Siavash Kasrai | Omid Bonakdar, Keyvan Alimohammadi | Nominated – Iran Cinema Celebration Award for Best Supporting Actor |
| 2009 | Every Night, Loneliness | Hamid Rahmani | Rasul Sadr Ameli | |
| 2009 | Bleeding Heart | Emad | Mohammad Reza Rahmani | |
| 2009 | Trial on the Street | Habib | Masoud Kimiai | |
| 2009 | A Man Who Ate His Cherries | | Peyman Haghani | Cameo |
| 2009 | The Third Wave | Babak | Arash Sajadi Hosseini | |
| 2009 | No One Knows About Persian Cats | Nader | Bahman Ghobadi | |
| 2010 |
| 2010 | Pay Back | Hamid | Tahmineh Milani | |
| 2010 | Assassin | Hamid Zahedi | Reza Karimi | |
| 2010 | Life with Closed Eyes | Ali Fakhar | Rasul Sadr Ameli | |
| 2010 | Elixir And Dust | Haj Mohsen | Abbas Rafei | Nominated – Iran's Film Critics and Writers Association Award for Best Supporting Actor |
| 2010 | Please Do Not Disturb | Repairman | Mohsen Abdolvahab | |
| 2010 | Seven Minutes Until Autumn | Farhad | Alireza Amini | Nominated – Crystal Simorgh Fajr Film Festival Award for Best Supporting Actor Nominated – Hafez Award for Best Actor Motion Picture Nominated – Iran Cinema Celebration Award for Best Actor |
| 2011 | Wakefulness | Mohammad | Farzad Motamen | |
| 2011 | Non-profit Graveyard | Captain | Mohsen Damadi | Cameo |
| 2011 | At the End of 8th Street | Moosa | Alireza Amini | Nominated – Iran Cinema Celebration Award for Best Supporting Actor |
| 2011 | Blood Orange | Siavash Khodabandeh | Sirus Alvand | |
| 2011 | Crime | Naser | Masoud Kimiai | Won – Crystal Simorgh Fajr Film Festival Award for Best Supporting Actor |
| 2011 | Felicity Land | Mohsen Tanbakooi | Maziar Miri | Nominated – Iran's Film Critics and Writers Association Award for Best Actor |
| 2012 | Bita Is Restless | Amir | Mehrdad Farid | |
| 2012 | The Last Step | | Ali Mosaffa | Cameo |
| 2012 | The Orange Suit | Hamed Aban | Dariush Mehrjui | |
| 2013 | The Fourth Child | Ebrahim | Vahid Mousaian | |
| 2013 | Good to Be Back | Dr. Farzad Matin | Dariush Mehrjui | |
| 2014 | Hard Makeup | Masoud | Hamid Nematollah | Nominated – Crystal Simorgh Fajr Film Festival Award for Best Actor Nominated – Hafez Award for Best Actor Motion Picture Nominated – Iran Cinema Celebration Award for Best Actor Nominated – Iran's Film Critics and Writers Association Award for Best Actor |
| 2014 | Life Is Elsewhere | Davood | Manouchehr Hadi | |
| 2014 | The Girl's House | Mansour | Shahram Shah Hosseini | Nominated – Iran's Film Critics and Writers Association Award for Best Actor Won – Iranian Film Festival Australia Award for Best Actor |
| 2015 | There Will Be Blood on Wednesday | Morteza | Hamase Parsa | |
| 2016 | Never | | Hadi Moghadamdoost | |
| 2016 | 7 Months Pregnant | Mehrdad | Hatef Alimardani | |
| 2016 | It Happened at Midnight | Hossein | Tina Pakravan | Nominated – Iran Cinema Celebration Award for Best Actor |
| 2017 | Blockage | Ghasem | Mohsen Gharaie | Nominated – Hafez Award for Best Actor Motion Picture Won – Iran Cinema Celebration Award for Best Actor Won – Iran's Film Critics and Writers Association Award for Best Actor Nominated – Urban International Film Festival Award for Best Actor Won – Malaysia International Film Festival Award for Best Actor |
| 2018 | Sly | Ghodratollah Samadi | Kamal Tabrizi | Won – Cine-Iran Festival of Toronto Award for Best Actor |
| 2019 | Alive | Naeem | Hossein Amiri Doomari, Pedram Pouramiri | |
| 2019 | Castle of Dreams | Jalal | Reza Mirkarimi | Nominated – Crystal Simorgh Fajr Film Festival Award for Best Actor Nominated – Hafez Award for Best Actor Motion Picture Won – Iran Cinema Celebration Award for Best Actor Won – Iran's Film Critics and Writers Association Award for Best Actor Won – Shanghai International Film Festival Golden Goblet Award for Best Actor Nominated – Asian Film Award for Best Actor Nominated – Urban International Film Festival Award for Best Actor Won – Cyrus International Film Festival Award for Best Actor Won – Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival Award for Best International Actor |
| 2021 | Punch Drunk | Hassan Khoshnood | Adel Tabrizi | Won – Iran International FICTS Festival Award for Best National Actor in a Feature Film |
| 2024 | The Old Bachelor | Ali Bastani | Oktay Baraheni | |
| 2024 | Go Free | Houman | Adel Tabrizi | |
| 2024 | For Rana | Aref | Iman Yazdi | |
| 2025 | Setareh's Husband | Younes | Ebrahim Irajzad | |
| 2025 | Juliet and the King | Malek Jahan Khanom (voice) | Ashkan Rahgozar | Animation |
| 2025 | Red Shades | | Hossein Mahkam | |
| TBA | Bob Marley | | Davood Khayambazi | Post-production |

### Web

| Year | Title | Role | Director | Platform |
| 2016 | Golden Tooth | Bolbol / Atash | Davood Mirbagheri | Video CD |
| 2019–2020 | Heart | Arash Sepanta | Manouchehr Hadi | Filimo, Namava |
| 2021 | I Want to Live | Amir Shaygan | Sharam Shah Hosseini | Filimo |
| 2023 | Vertigo | Peyman Pouyesh | Behrang Tofighi | Namava |
| 2023 | Turkish Coffee | Danial Azin | Alireza Amini | Filmnet |
| TBA | Heartless | | Kamal Tabrizi | I Net |

### Television

| Year | Title | Role | Director | Notes | Network |
| 2000 | Fellow Traveler | Siamak | Ghasem Jafari | TV series | IRIB TV3 |
| 2002 | Searching in the City | Guilty | Hassan Hedayat | TV series | IRIB TV5 |
| 2005 | Sun's Shadow | Reza | Mohammad Reza Ahanj | TV series | IRIB TV3 |
| 2008 | One Fist of Eagle Feather | Amir Hossein Daneshvar | Asghar Hashemi | TV series | IRIB TV1 |
| 2009 | The Last Invitation | Emad Khalili | Hossein Soheilizadeh | TV series | IRIB TV2 |
| 2011 | Free Fall | Major Amir Saberi | Alireza Amini | TV series | IRIB TV1 |
| 2015 | My Sky | Mohsen | Mohammad Reza Ahanj | TV series | IRIB Ofogh |
| 2015–2016 | Kimia | Mohammad Jahan Ara | Javad Afshar | TV series | IRIB TV2 |
| 2015 | Red Hat 94 | Himself | Iraj Tahmasb | TV program | IRIB TV2 |