Hamid Farrokhnezhad Explained

Hamid Farrokhnezhad
Native Name:حمید فرخ‌نژاد
Native Name Lang:Fa
Birth Name:Persian: حمید فرخ‌نژاد
Birth Date:17 April 1969
Birth Place:Abadan, Iran
Occupation:Actor, writer, director
Yearsactive:1991–present
Height:1.92 m
Spouse:Foroozan Jalilifar[1]
Children:1

Hamid Farrokhnezhad (Persian: حمید فرخ‌نژاد, Romanized as 'Hamīd Farrokhnežād'; born 17 April 1969) is an Iranian actor, writer, and director. He has received various accolades, including four Crystal Simorgh (two for acting), two Hafez Awards, three Iran Cinema Celebration Awards, and an Iran's Film Critics and Writers Association Award.

Career

He started his career in student theatre and making some short films. After acting in Khosrow Sinai's Dar Kooche-haye Eshgh he had the chance to play a role in another movie by Sinai, Aroos-e Atash aka Bride of fire which brought him many awards in Fajr Film Festival, Karlovy Vary International Film Festival and Khane-ye Cinema award. He had roles in three films by Sinai and had worked with notable Iranian directors such as Ebrahim Hatamikia, Asghar Farhadi and Bahram Beyzayi.

He also gained TV popularity after acting in the role of a ghost named "Hasan Golab" in a TV series directed by Ebrahim Hatamikia.[2] [3]

On 26 March 2022, following the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Farrokhnezhad criticized the invasion of Ukraine, calling it “savagery” and “brutal attack”, and announced that he returned the best actor award he had received from the 2005 Moscow International Film Festival, in protest of the invasion.[4] [5]

Filmography

Film

YearFilmEnglish TitleRoleDirector
1991Dar Kooche-haye Eshgh"In the alleys of love"Khosrow Sinai
2000Aroos-e Atash"Bride of fire"FarhanKhosrow Sinai
2002Low Heights"Ertefa-e Past"GhasemEbrahim Hatamikia
2004Tab"The Fever"Reza karimi
2004Be Rang-e-Arghavan"In Amethyst Color"BehzadEbrahim Hatamikia
2005Big Drum Under Left Foot"Tabl-e Bozorg Zir-e Pay-e Chap""Hafez [6] Kazem Ma'soumi
2006Sahne-ye Jorm, Voroud Mamnou"Crime scene, No admittance"Maj. Parsa[7] Ebrahim Sheibani
2006Fireworks Wednesday"Chaharshanbeh Soori"MortezaAsghar Farhadi
2008Haghighat-e Gomshodeh"The lost truth"Dr. Kia[8] Mohammad Ahmadi
2008Atashkar"Fire keeper"SohrabMohsen Amiryoussefi
2008Hareem"Sanctum"Maj. MohebbiReza Khatibi
2008Shab-e Vaghe'e"The night of the incident"DaryagholiShahram Asadi
2009Poosteh"The shell"Saeed[9] Mostafa Al-e Ahmad
2009Bidari-e Royaha"The Awakening of the Dreams"Ayub's BrotherMohammad Ali Bashe Ahangar
2009Democracy Tou Rouze Roshan "Democracy in Daylight"SotudehAli Atshani
2010Shokolat-e Dagh"Hot Chokolate"Hamed Kolahdari
2010Dar Entezare Mojezeh"Waiting for a Miracle"AmirRasul Sadr Ameli
2010Mohammad"Muhammad"Abu sufyanMajid Majidi
2011Gasht-e Ershad"Guidance Patrol"Haj AbbasSaeed Soheili
2012Zendegi-e Khosusi-e Agha va Khanom-e Mim"The Private Life of Mr. & Mrs. M "Mohsen MehradRouhollah Hejazi
2012Parinaaz"Parinaz"ZakariaBahram Bahramian
2012Esterdad"Reclamation"Faramarz TakinAli Ghaffari
2012The Wedlock"Zendegi-ye Moshtarek-e Aghaye Mahmoudi va Banoo"Mansour MahmoodiRuhollah Hejazi
2012Besharat be yek shahrvand-e Hezareye Sevvom"Annunciation to a Third Millennium Citizen"DetectiveMohammad Hadi Karimi
2013Mordan be Vaght-e Shahrivar"Death ath the Time of Shahrivar"AlirezaHatef Alimardani
2013Parvaz-e Zanburha"Flight of the Bees"Hamed Amrayi
2015Yasin"Yasin"MahmoudHamed Amrayi
2015Moshkel-e Giti"Guiti's Problem"IrajBahram Kazemi
2016Khoob, Bad, Jelf"the Good,the Bad, the Gaudy"Major ShademanPeiman Ghasemkhani
2016Gasht 2"The Patrol 2"Haj AbbasSaeed Soheili
2017Bi hesab Getting EvenMohsenMostafa Ahmadi
2018LotteryLotteryMortezaMohammad Hossein Mahdavian
2018TegzasTexasUncle HushangMasoud Atyabi
2018Ma shoma ra doost darim khanom-e YayaWe like you Mrs YayaMortezaAbdolreza Kahani
2019Symphony No. 9Symphony No. 9Mohammad Reza Honarmand
2019The Devil's DaughternaderGhorban Mohammadpour

Writing, directing and producing

Theater career

TV career

Awards and nominations

Notes and References

  1. Web site: INFO . 2010-01-07 . 2011-07-22 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110722014912/http://jjtvn.ir/display_full.aspx?data_id=25176 . dead .
  2. Web site: حمید فرخ‌نژاد "حلقه سبز" حاتمی‌کیا است . www.afarineshdaily.ir . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110722014415/http://www.afarineshdaily.ir/afarinesh/News.aspx?NID=23063 . 2011-07-22.
  3. Web site: .: Iranian Movie DataBase حمید فرخ‌نژاد.
  4. Web site: Ziabari. Korosh. 2022-03-09. In Backing Russia on Ukraine, Iran Is on the Wrong Side of History. 2022-07-23. Foreign Policy.
  5. Alternate spellings are Hamid Farokhnezhad, Hamid Farrokhnejad and Hamid Farokhnejad
  6. Web site: نشست خبری "طبل بزرگ زیر پای چپ". 1 April 2023.
  7. Web site: نگاهی به "روز سوم" و "صحنه جرم، ورود ممنوع" . 2010-01-07 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110716050323/http://fa.shahrvand.com/2008-07-14-20-55-17/2008-07-24-20-21-05/798--q-q-q-q . 2011-07-16 . dead .
  8. Web site: شبکه رادیویی فرهنگ - نقد فیلم «حقیقت گمشده»/ حقیقت گمشده یک فیلم! . 2010-01-07 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20101126232916/http://radiofarhang.ir/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=353&Itemid=140 . 2010-11-26 .
  9. Web site: Magiran | روزنامه ایران (1387/01/24): گزارشی از پشت صحنه فیلم پوسته، کار مصطفی آل احمد: لاکی سخت با ظاهری فریبنده.
  10. Web site: Hamid Farokhnezhad. IMDb.
  11. Web site: 27th Moscow International Film Festival (2005) . 2013-04-13 . MIFF . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20130403124619/http://moscowfilmfestival.ru/miff34/eng/archives/?year=2005 . 2013-04-03 .