| Shahab Hosseini | |
| Native Name: | شهاب حسینی |
| Native Name Lang: | Fa |
| Birthname: | Seyyed Shahabedin Hosseini Tonekaboni |
| Birth Date: | 3 February 1974 |
| Birth Place: | Tehran, Iran |
| Yearsactive: | 1997–present |
| Spouse: | |
| Children: | 2 |
Seyyed Shahabedin Hosseini Tonekaboni (Persian: سید شهابالدین حسینی تنکابنی; born February 3, 1974) is an Iranian actor, producer, director and screenwriter. He is known for his collaborations with Iranian Academy Award-winning director Asghar Farhadi in About Elly (2009), A Separation (2011), and The Salesman (2016). His accolades include a Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actor, a Silver Bear for Best Actor, and a Crystal Simorgh for Best Actor.
Shahab Hosseini was born on February, 3rd, 1974 in Tehran. He earned his high school diploma in Biology. He dropped out of the University of Tehran as a psychology student and emigrated to Canada. Later, he became a radio host in Iran, and hosted a TV show for youth. He also took on some small acting roles in a few TV series. Hosseini's cinematic debut was in Rokhsareh (2002) directed by Amir Ghavidel. His career took off with his performance in the movie The Fifth Reaction directed by Tahmineh Milani.[1] In June 2011, he announced that he would be taking a break but would return to cinema in 2013.[2]
Hosseini has won the Silver Bear for Best Actor for A Separation at the 61st Berlin International Film Festival, and the Best Actor Award at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival for his role in The Salesman.[3] Hosseini won his first award, Crystal Simorgh for Superstar in 2009.[4] In 2013, he made his directorial debut.[5] In 2020, Hosseini co-founded Pol Media ("pol" translating to "bridge" in Persian) with director Kourosh Ahari and producer Alex Bretow, a distribution and production company aiming to "bridge the gap" between Iranian art, culture and cinema with that of the U.S.[6]
| Year | Title | Role | Director | Notes | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| scope=row rowspan="2" | 2002 | Rokhsareh | Mahan Farzam | Amir Ghavidel | ||
| Dummies | Morad | Ali Ghavitan | ||||
| scope=row rowspan="3" | 2003 | The Fifth Reaction | Majid | Tahmineh Milani | ||
| The Woman Keeps Silent | Mani | Ahmad Amini | ||||
| Poisonous Honey | Shahin | Ebrahim Sheibani | ||||
| scope=row rowspan="2" | 2004 | A Candle in the Wind | Babak | Pouran Derakhshandeh | ||
| The Ziggurat Goddess | Bahram | Rahman Rezaei | ||||
| scope=row rowspan="3" | 2005 | Fifty Million Proposal | Barmak | Mehdi Sabaghzadeh | ||
| Salvation at 8:20 | Foad | Sirus Alvand | ||||
| Whirlpool | Homayoun | Hassan Hedayat | ||||
| scope=row rowspan="3" | 2006 | The Online Murder | Keyvan | Masoud Abparvar | ||
| Love Story | Bijan Birang | |||||
| Eternal Children | Iman | Pouran Derakhshandeh | ||||
| scope=row rowspan="3" | 2007 | Unexpected | Salk | Mohammad Hadi Karimi | ||
| Paradise Station | Soroush | Nader Moghadas | ||||
| Flags of Kaveh's Castle | Sadegh | Mohammad Nourizad | ||||
| scope=row rowspan="2" | 2008 | Niloofar | Aziz | Sabine El Gemayel | ||
| Mahya | Javid | Akbar Khajouei | ||||
| scope=row rowspan="4" | 2009 | About Elly | Ahmad | Asghar Farhadi | ||
| Superstar | Kourosh Zand | Tahmineh Milani | ||||
| Heartbroken | Amirali | Ali Rouintan | ||||
| Around the Highway | Pasha | Siavash As'adi | ||||
| scope=row rowspan="2" | 2010 | A Walk in the Fog | Amin | Bahram Tavakoli | ||
| Anahita | Behnam | Azizollah Hamidnezhad | ||||
| scope=row rowspan="4" | 2011 | Snow on a Hot Tin Roof | Bahman | Mohammad Hadi Karimi | ||
| Final Whistle | Saman | Niki Karimi | ||||
| A Separation | Hojjat | Asghar Farhadi | ||||
| Goodbye | Esfandiar | Mohammad Rasoulof | ||||
| scope=row rowspan="3" | 2012 | The Paternal House | Naser | Kianoush Ayari | ||
| Someone Wants to Talk with You | Mostafa | Manouchehr Hadi | ||||
| Ziba and I | Jafar | Fereidoun Hassanpour | ||||
| scope=row rowspan="4" | 2013 | Africa | Shahab | Houman Seyyedi | Direct-to-video | |
| The Painting Pool | Reza | Maziar Miri | ||||
| The Interpretation of a Dream | Major | Reza Dadooi | Direct-to-video | |||
| Hush! Girls Don't Scream | The Detective | Pouran Derakhshandeh | ||||
| scope=row rowspan="2" | 2014 | A Five Star | Reza | Mahshid Afsharzadeh | ||
| Resident of the Middle Floor | Shahab Hosseini | also as director | ||||
| scope=row rowspan="2" | 2015 | Time to Love | Hamid | Alireza Raeesian | ||
| Sweet Taste of Imagination | Grous | Kamal Tabrizi | ||||
| scope=row rowspan="6" | 2016 | Come with Me | Shahab Hosseini | Short film, also as director | ||
| Parallel Shadows | Rabiei | Asghar Naimi | ||||
| Wednesday | Salim | Soroush Mohammadzadeh | ||||
| The Salesman | Emad | Asghar Farhadi | ||||
| My Brother Khosrow | Khosrow | Ehsan Bigleri | ||||
| Gholam | Gholam | Mitra Tabrizian | ||||
| scope=row rowspan="2" | 2017 | Final Exam | Farhad | Adel Yaraghi | ||
| Lobby | Mohammad Parvizi | unreleased film | ||||
| scope=row rowspan="2" | 2018 | The Midnight Sun | Shabir Shirazi | also as producer, casting director | ||
| The Residents of Nowhere | Shahab Hosseini | also as director and producer; released in 2023 | ||||
| scope=row rowspan="3" | 2019 | Lovely Trash | Mansour | |||
| Nabat | Saeed | Pegah Arzi | ||||
| Labyrinth | Amirali | Amir Hossein Torabi | ||||
| scope=row rowspan="4" | 2020 | Any Day Now | Bahman Mehdipour | Hamy Ramezan | ||
| Sheen | Meisam Kazazi | as producer | ||||
| The Night | Babak Naderi | Kourosh Ahari | ||||
| After the Incident | Pouria Heidary Oureh | as producer | ||||
| 2021 | Mahrokh's House | Shahram Ebrahimi | as producer | |||
| Nargesi | Payam Eskandari | |||||
| scope=row rowspan="2" | 2022 | The Writer Is Dead | Shahab Hosseini | as director, producer | ||
| Golden Blood | Mr. Keshavarz | Ebrahim Sheibani | ||||
| scope=row | 2024 | Intoxicated by Love | Shams Tabrizi | Hassan Fathi | [7] | |
| South Terminal | Arash Sajadi Hosseini | Post-production | ||||
| Shukran | Taher | Pietro Malegori | Post-production | [8] | ||
| The Far Mountains | Mitra Tabrizian | Pre-Production | [9] | |||
| Wild Berries | Davood | Soudabeh Moradian | Pre-production | [10] |
| Year | Title | Role | Director | Platform | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| scope=row | 2015–2018 | Shahrzad | Ghobad Divansalar | Hassan Fathi | Lotus Play | [11] |
| scope=row | 2020–2021 | Mutual Friendship | Himself | Shahab Hosseini | Namava | [12] |
| scope=row | 2022–2023 | The Lion Skin | Moheb Meshkat | Jamshid Mahmoudi | Filmnet | [13] |
| scope=row | 2023–2024 | Fereshteh's Sin | Hamed Tehrani | Hamed Angha | Filimo | [14] |
| Poker | Reza Dadooi | Sheida | [15] |
| Year | Title | Role | Director | Notes | Network | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 | After the Rain | Ali Ahmadi | Saeed Soltani | TV series | ||
| Fellow Traveler | Reza | Ghasem Jafari | ||||
| The Lawyer | Sirus Moghaddam | IRIB TV5 | ||||
| Young Police | Younes Behgar | Sirus Moghaddam | ||||
| scope=row | 2004 | Cold Fever | Shahab Kianfar | Alireza Afkhami | ||
| scope=row rowspan="2" | 2007 | The Dance Fly | Dr. Vahid Molaei | Ahmad Moradpour | ||
| Zero Degree Turn | Habib Parsa | Hassan Fathi | ||||
| scope=row | 2012–2013 | Flying Passion | Abbas Babaei | Yadollah Samadi | ||
| scope=row rowspan="2" | 2014 | Red Hat 93 | Himself | Iraj Tahmasb | IRIB TV2 | |
| Seven | Himself | Mojtaba Amini | TV program | IRIB TV3 | ||
| scope=row | 2019 | Sugarland | Narrator | Saeed Zamani, Babak Nazari | TV series | IRIB Nasim |
| scope=row | 2023–2024 | Homeland | Rahi Bahadori | Kamal Tabrizi | IRIB TV3 |
| Award | Year | Category | Nominated Work | Result | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Action On Film International Film Festival | 2016 | Best Director – Motion Picture | Resident of the Middle Floor | ||
| Best Actor | Hush! Girls Don't Scream | ||||
| Beijing International Film Festival | 2021 | Best Supporting Actor | Any Day Now | ||
| Berlin International Film Festival | 2011 | Best Actor | A Separation | ||
| Cannes Film Festival | 2016 | Best Actor | The Salesman | ||
| Chlotrudis Awards | 2012 | Best Supporting Actor | |||
| Cine Paris Film Festival | 2022 | Best Feature Film | The Writer Is Dead | ||
| Fajr Film Festival | 2004 | Best Actor in a Supporting Role | A Candle in the Wind | ||
| 2005 | Salvation at 8:20 | ||||
| 2008 | Best Actor in a Leading Role | Mahya | |||
| 2009 | About Elly | ||||
| Superstar | |||||
| 2011 | Best Actor in a Supporting Role | A Separation | |||
| 2015 | Best Actor in a Leading Role | Time to Love | |||
| Hafez Awards | 2010 | Best Actor – Television Series Drama | Zero Degree Turn | ||
| 2011 | Best Actor – Motion Picture | Superstar and About Elly | |||
| 2016 | Best Actor – Television Series Drama | Shahrzad | |||
| 2017 | Best Actor – Motion Picture | ||||
| 2018 | |||||
| Best Actor – Television Series Drama | Shahrzad | ||||
| 2023 | The Lion Skin | ||||
| Abbas Kiarostami Prize | Residents of Nowhere | ||||
| International Cinephile Society | 2012 | Best Supporting Actor | A Separation | ||
| Iran Cinema Celebration | 2003 | Best Actor in a Supporting Role | The Fifth Reaction | ||
| 2004 | A Candle in the Wind | ||||
| 2008 | Best Actor in a Leading Role | A Walk in the Fog and About Elly | |||
| 2011 | Best Actor in a Supporting Role | A Separation | |||
| 2014 | Best Actor in a Leading Role | The Painting Pool | |||
| 2017 | The Salesman | ||||
| Iran's Film Critics and Writers Association | 2010 | Best Actor in a Leading Role | Superstar and About Elly | ||
| 2011 | A Walk in the Fog | ||||
| 2012 | Best Actor in a Supporting Role | A Separation | |||
| 2014 | Best Actor in a Leading Role | The Painting Pool | |||
| 2016 | |||||
| Iranian Film Festival – San Francisco | 2020 | Best Actor | Labyrinth | ||
| Jasmine International Film Festival | 2013 | Best Actor in a Direct-to-video | The Interpretation of a Dream | ||
| 2016 | Best Actor – Television Series | ||||
| Jussi Awards | 2021 | Best Actor | Any Day Now | ||
| Molins Horror Film Festival | 2020 | Best Actor | The Night | ||
| Urban International Film Festival | 2015 | Best Actor in a Direct-to-video | The Interpretation of a Dream |