标题：Ramin karimloo
获得荣誉
莱明因在《真爱不死》中对魅影的刻画，获得2010年Broadwayworld奖最佳男主角奖，并再次在2011年Whatsonstage的剧院剧迷选择奖上获得最佳男主角提名。2011年2月7日，莱明获得奥利维亚奖最佳男主角提名，而《真爱不死》共获得7项提名。
2011年2月20日，莱明因在《魅影：真爱不死》中的出演荣获Whatsonstage的剧院剧迷选择奖最佳男主角。
  
Ramin采访
LONDON–Dreams do come true. Ask Ramin Karimloo.
Andrew Lloyd Webber is expected to announce Thursday that the 31-year-old Canadian will be playing the Phantom in Love Never Dies, the sequel to the worldwide hit, The Phantom of the Opera, which begins performances in London next February.
If this were a movie, we'd suddenly have a flashback to nearly 20 years before. 
It's Dec.12, 1990 and a 12-year-old Iranian-born kid is grudgingly going on a school trip to see The Phantom of the Operaat Toronto's Pantages Theatre.
"I thought, `I'm not going to sit through this.' I mean, I had never seen a stage show in my life," Karimloo grumbles.
But the power of Colm Wilkinson's voice and the magic of the show wove their spell on the young man. "By the end, I started welling up, I was embarrassed," he recalls in an interview. "And when Colm took his bow, I suddenly thought, `I would like to do that.'
"Yeah," he repeats. "I would like to do that a lot."
Flash-forward to 2009, on a steamy Saturday afternoon when we're sitting in an espresso bar just down the street from Her Majesty's Theatre. 
The boyishly handsome Karimloo has just finished a matinee performance in the title role of The Phantom of the Opera, which he's been playing for three years now.
But that's getting ahead of our story.
It begins in Tehran, on Sept.19, 1978, when Karimloo was born at the height of Iran's civil unrest that would lead to the deposing of the Shah.
"All I was ever told is that we had to get out of there to save our lives. I'm only learning the story now of what happened. When we were growing up, we just accepted it without questions.
"But now, so many years later, my father can begin to talk about it. Man, I can't believe the hardships he and my mother had to go through to start a new life."
The Karimloo family spent three years in Italy before finally emigrating to Ontario, where they first settled in Peterborough.
"What a great place to grow up! I want more of that in my life again. The simplicity, the sitting around the backyard..."
The family finally moved to Richmond Hill and Karimloo was being pressured "like any Iranian kid" to be a doctor or a lawyer. "But I wanted to be a hockey player, I was sure of it."
Until he saw The Phantom of the Opera, which truly changed Karimloo's life.
"I still have the poster from the day I saw it, saying `Now In Its Second Year.' I saved that. I've got it framed. I also have a letter from Colm. I've got that framed too."
Then, on Dec.1, 1994, the Toronto Star printed a story about a "Grade 11 student from Alexander Mackenzie High School who has seen The Phantom of the Opera 10 times" and went backstage at the Pantages as part of his school's job shadowing program. 
But you don't get to play the Phantom as a teenager, so Karimloo recalled Wilkinson's advice to him: "Just sing with rock bands. That will teach you how to do it." 
So he dove into it. "I had long hair. My idol was Gordon Downie from The Tragically Hip. I used to wear the same double denim outfit he did, you know, The Canadian Tuxedo. I studied him, every gesture, every move, how he tipped his cap, how he sang each lyric. I treated it like my first acting assignment."
Still, there wasn't a big market for Tragically Hip tribute bands, so Karimloo auditioned for a cruise ship line, lying about his age (he was 17), and spent two years singing on the seven seas while studying Stanislavski and Strasberg in his cabin at night.
By the age of 20, he was understudying The Pirate King in The Pirates of Penzance at London's famous outdoor Regent Park Theatre and that led to his briefly taking over the role of Joe Gillis in Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical Sunset Boulevard at the age of 21. 
After that, he spent several years in the ensemble of Les Miserables, but the ambitious young Karimloo was growing discontent.
"I told everyone if I didn't have a leading role in the West End by the time I was 25, I'd quit and become a cop."
Two weeks before that birthday, he was cast as Raoul in The Phantom of the Opera.
But he had his eye on the title role, which he told producer Cameron Macintosh, who raised an eyebrow and said, "You're a little young, aren't you?"
Still, he got an audition and, as he likes to recall, "12 years to the day from when that article about me appeared in the Star, I was playing the Phantom in London."
He still seems like a stage-struck kid as he shakes his head. "It's not a paycheque. It's a dream."
Then one day, Lloyd Webber suddenly summoned him and handed Karimloo some music he had never seen before.
"I started singing it and thought it was the most beautiful stuff I'd ever heard. Then suddenly I realized it was from the sequel to the Phantom. I asked Andrew if this was an audition and he said, `Don't ask questions, just sing it.'"
That's just what Karimloo did and as Lloyd Webber will be announcing to the world, he got the part. 
Is he nervous about stepping into the world spotlight in such a big way?
"I feel like I'm ready for this challenge," he insists calmly. "I'm not putting any limitations on myself."
There's just one more thing he needs to make his dream complete.
"I hope and pray that the show comes to Toronto and that I'm playing in it."关于昵称的由来最开始在国内因为Ramin的发音接近拉面于是便有了拉面这个昵称，后来mayue876同志觉得拉面显得有些不尊重于是尊称他为面爷。
另外据说有一次Ramin与其好友Sierra Boggess（真爱不死中Christine的扮演者）一起出去逛街然后路过一个日式面馆，因为日文中拉面的发音和Ramin的发音相似于是Sierra就在推上说以后管Ramin叫noodles，于是这个名字就发扬光大了。