| Bahram Radan | |||||
| Native Name: | بهرام رادان | ||||
| Birth Date: | 28 April 1979 | ||||
| Birth Place: | Tehran, Iran | ||||
| Native Name Lang: | Fa | ||||
| Education: | Islamic Azad University | ||||
| Occupation: | Actor | ||||
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Bahram Radan (Persian: بهرام رادان; born April 28, 1979) is an Iranian actor. He has received various accolades, including two Crystal Simorgh and a Hafez Award.
While studying business management in college, Radan signed up for acting classes where he was discovered as an emerging talent. He got his first break when he was given an opportunity for his first role starring in the movie The Passion of Love. The movie achieved great success at the Iranian box office and was one of the top-grossing movies of 2000. Radan has since starred in many movies and has become a popular household name in the Middle East, often referred to as one of the top five superstars of Iranian cinema. His extreme popularity caused Iranian authorities to ban his images from billboards in 2008. In 2010, he was chosen by United Nations as the first Iranian UN ambassador against hunger.
He ventured into music and released his first album, The Other Side, in 2012. Music videos were created for three of the songs from the album: "Jeegh" (Scream), "To Rafti" (You Left) and "Zamouneh" (Era).
In June 2015, Radan tweeted support (in Persian) for the U.S. Supreme Court's decision legalizing gay marriage, and was compelled to delete the Tweet and forced to apologize after criticism from government-affiliated hardline media. Although The Guardian could not independently verify the claim, Iranian media reported that Radan had been summoned for questioning before the country's Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance, which vets films and cultural materials before their release.[1]
In 2008, Radan acted in Tardid which is based on William Shakespeare's Hamlet. After that, he was "Zaal" in "Iran C project theatre“.
| Year | Title | Role | Director | Notes | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| scope=row rowspan="4" | 2001 | The Passion of Love | Kian | Nader Moghaddas | |||
| Blue | Arastoo | Hamid Labkhandeh | |||||
| Swan Song | Peyman Fadayi | Saeed Asadi | Nominated – Hafez Award for Best Actor Motion Picture | ||||
| Dark Rising | Ebrahim Sheibani | Short film | |||||
| scope=row rowspan="2" | 2002 | Bartender | Reza Tehrani | Mohamad Reza A'alami | |||
| Thirst | Ashkan | Mohammad Hossein Farahbakhsh | |||||
| scope=row rowspan="2" | 2003 | The Yellow Rose | Davood | Dariush Farhang | |||
| The River's End | Khashayar | Behrouz Afkhami | Nominated – Hafez Award for Best Actor Motion Picture | ||||
| scope=row rowspan="3" | 2004 | Friday's Soldiers | Asef | Masoud Kimiai | |||
| A Candle in the Wind | Farzin Zarban | Pouran Derakhshandeh | Won – Crystal Simorgh Fajr Film Festival Award for Best Actor | ||||
| Gilaneh | Esmaeel | Mohsen Abdolvahab | |||||
| scope=row rowspan="3" | 2005 | The Pink Marriage | Aria Shadab | Manouchehr Mosayyeri | |||
| Salvation at 8:20 | Taha Rahmani | Sirus Alvand | |||||
| The Command | Sahand | Masoud Kimiai | |||||
| scope=row rowspan="2" | 2006 | Crossroads | Pedram | Abolhassan Davoodi | |||
| Mainline | Arash | Rakhshan Banietemad, Mohsen Abdolvahab | Cameo | ||||
| 2007 | The Music Man | Ali Boloorchi | Dariush Mehrjui | Won – Crystal Simorgh Fajr Film Festival Award for Best Actor | |||
| Four Finger | Foad / Farzad | Saeed Soheili | |||||
| scope=row | 2008 | Canaan | Ali Rezvan | Mani Haghighi | |||
| scope=row rowspan="3" | 2009 | Penniless | Iraj | Hamid Nematollah | |||
| Doubt | Siavash | Varuzh Karim Masihi | |||||
| Motherland | Amir Ali | Abolhassan Davoodi | |||||
| scope=row rowspan="2" | 2010 | The Killer | Maziar Mafi | Reza Karimi | Won – Ladakh International Film Festival Award for Best Actor | ||
| Death Carnival | Hamid Jahanbakhsh | Reza Azamian, Habibollah Kasesaz | |||||
| scope=row rowspan="2" | 2011 | Principles | Babak Saman | Tahmineh Milani | |||
| The Maritime Silk Road | Shazan | Mohammad Bozorgnia | |||||
| scope=row rowspan="2" | 2012 | Tehran 2121 | Javad (voice) | Bahram Azimi | |||
| The Wooden Bridge | Amir | Mehdi Karampour | |||||
| scope=row rowspan="3" | 2014 | Tragedy | Habib | Azita Moguie | |||
| Negar's Role | Farzad | Ali Atshani | |||||
| Cease Fire 2 | Khosrow | Tahmineh Milani | Nominated – Hafez Award for Best Actor Motion Picture | ||||
| scope=row rowspan="2" | 2015 | Ice Age | Farid | Mostafa Kiaee | |||
| A Tale of Love | Ali | Ahmad Ramezanzadeh | |||||
| scope=row rowspan="2" | 2016 | Barcode | Hamed | Mostafa Kiaee | Nominated – Hafez Award for Best Actor Motion Picture | ||
| Polaris | Poorya | Soudabeh Moradian | |||||
| scope=row | 2017 | Yellow | Shahab | Mostafa Taghizadeh | |||
| scope=row | 2018 | Istanbul Junction | Bahman | Mostafa Kiaee | |||
| scope=row rowspan="3" | 2019 | Tsunami | Morteza Nezhadi | Milad Sadrameli | Won – Iran International FICTS Festival Award for Best National Actor in a Feature Film | ||
| Mastermind | Saeed Parsa | Azita Moguie | |||||
| The Agitation | Bardia / Barbod | Fereydoun Jeyrani | |||||
| scope=row | 2020 | The Black Cat | Bahram Radan | Karim Mohammad Amini | also as producer | ||
| scope=row | 2021 | Pinto | Jalal | Narges Abyar | |||
| scope=row | 2022 | Grassland | Kazem Daneshi | as producerNominated – Crystal Simorgh Fajr Film Festival Award for Best Film | |||
| scope=row | 2024 | Breakfast with Giraffes | Mojtaba | Soroush Sehhat |
| Year | Title | Role | Director | Platform | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| scope=row | 2019 | Dance on the Glass | Yaghma Namdar | Mehdi Golestaneh | Video CD | |
| scope=row | 2022–2023 | Jeyran | Naser al-Din Shah Qajar | Hassan Fathi | Filimo | |
| Azazel | Hassan Fathi | |||||
| One Thousand and One Nights | Mostafa Kiaee | Filimo |