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Navid Akhavan (Persian: نوید اخوان‎; born on June 9th, 1980 in Tehran) is an
award winning Iranian-German actor and director. He is also known as Navid
Navid.

Navid was born in Teheran, Iran. Due to the Iran–Iraq War the four-year Navid
had to escape with his family from his native country. After living in the
United States, they immigrated in 1985 to Germany.

Navid grew up speaking English, German, and Farsi. Due to his fathers
profession, an event manager, he was introduced to the stage and audience from
an early age. He performed on stage for the first time when he was eight years
old. Until the age of 16 he was the opening act of dozens of concerts.

After he graduated from a school for performing arts in Cologne, Germany
"Schauspiel Zentrum" in 2001, he started working as an actor in film, TV and
theatre.

He played the role of Lady Macbeth in William Shakespeares Macbeth and Romeo in
Romeo and Juliet at the Altonaer Theater in Hamburg, Germany.

In 2003, his first leading role in Elmar Fischers "Fremder Freund", gained him a
nomination at the Munich Filmfestival in the category "Best Actor in a Leading
Role". In the same year the film won the acclaimed "First Steps Award", the
"Digital Visions Award" as well as the Audience Award at the "Filmz Mainz" film
festival.

His other leading roles include Mohsen in "Salami Aleikum" and Jamal in "45
Minutes to Ramallah" (both comedies directed by Ali Samadi Ahadi) as well as the
drama "For a Moment Freedom" (written and directed by Arash T. Riahi), which won
30 awards at international film festivals and was the Austrian entry for the
Academy Awards in 2009.

In the Hollywood production "Septembers of Shiraz", which can be seen on
Netflix, he plays the part of Morteza next to Adrien Brody and Salma Hayek.

From 2005 until 2010 Navid and his brother Omid produced Persian pop music as
"Navid & Omid". They released two studio albums (Faryad & Kolli Sefaresh) as
well as several music videos during that time, which all Navid wrote and
directed.

Navid is also a guest teacher and gives workshops on how to direct actors and
produce music videos at the SAE Berlin.

In 2020 he narrated Dalia Sofer's novel Man of My Time for Audible.

Navid has also been working as a director for other artists. He has won awards
at international filmfestivals with the music videos "November's Fall" and
"Habs", which he made for the Iranian legendary singer Ebi.

The acclaimed music video "Behesht", which Navid wrote and directed for the
Iranian superstar Googoosh, gathered international attention since it was the
first time a homosexual love story had been portrayed in an Iranian music video.
You'll find links to a selection of the international news articels that covered
this on the "News/Press" section of the website.

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"MAN OF MY TIME"

Listen to "Man of My Time" by Dalia Sofer on Audible, narrated by Navid.



"HABS (IMPRISONED)"

Starring the legendary Iranian singer Ebi, for whom Navid wrote, produced and
directed the music video, won the Audience Award at the UMFF and was nominated
at 7 more film festivals.





"SEPTEMBERS OF SHIRAZ"

IS OUT NOW!
Starring: Adrien Brody, Salma Hayek, Shohreh Aghdashloo and Navid Navid
Producers: Gerard Butler, Alan Siegel, Avi Lerner
Director: Wayne Blair
You can watch the complete film on:
Netflix | iTunes | Amazon | Google Play






PRESS



THE NEW YORK TIMES:

"...The film's innovation is its reading of extremist zeal as a perversion of
youthful energy. Aided by Mr. Akhavan's quicksilver performance..."
(by Dana Stevens)





THE NEW YORK POST:

"Akhavan plays each change brilliantly in a film that is so tightly controlled
that the mere glimpse of a new beard or a prayer mat being unrolled becomes a
moment of horror."
(by Kyle Smith)





VARIETY

"Akhavan, a fine actor, portrays the terrible emotional cost of this farce even
as he goes ahead with it. (...) Casting of the four attractive young leads, who
seem to have stepped out of a romantic teen comedy, pays off as the story spins
into a dark nightmare and the carefree setup turns dark. Both leads offer
riveting interpretations of their characters: Wannek as the culturally curious
German liberal ready to fight for his friend and follow his code of ethics to
the end; Akhavan as a poetic youth whose life goes disastrously off track (...)
Akhavan is appealing on screen."
(by Deborah Young)



BZ BERLIN:

"Navid Navid: Von Hollywood zu Hannelore Elsner"
(by Carina Parke)





CINEMA:

"Das Feelgood-Movie der Saison: Wer nach dieser fantasievollen
Kulturclash-Komödie noch schlechte Laune hat, dem ist nicht mehr zu helfen."



WELT:

"Auch wenn es sich vom Titel nicht so anhören mag, ist der Kinofilm "Salami
Aleikum" eine wirklch gute Komödie."
(by Cosima Lutz)



KINO ZEIT:

"Salami Alekum, Ein bestrickender Clash der Kulturen"
(by Paul Collmar)



EPD FILM:

"Karim Saleh als gockelhafter Womanizer und Navid Akavan als Einfaltspinsel
verkörpern zwei liebenswürdige Charaktere, die man in diesem Roadmovie (...)
gerne begleitet."
(by Manfred Riepe)



PROGRAMMKINO:

"Animierte Sequenzen unterbrechen den Lauf der turbulenten Geschichte. Und auch
das Timing stimmt, um die Spannung zu halten. Das verdankt er nicht zuletzt
seinem spielfreudigen Hauptdarsteller Navid Akhavan, der bereits in „Salami
Aleikum“ als strickender Metzgerssohn glänzte. Meisterhaft beherrscht auch der
in Teheran geborene Schauspieler und Sänger den Spagat zwischen souveräner
Missachtung der Realität und Normalität des Grotesken."
(by Luitgard Koch)




PRESS REGARDING THE MUSIC VIDEO "BEHESHT" ("PARADISE"),
WHICH NAVID WROTE AND DIRECTED FOR THE LEGENDARY PERSIAN SINGER GOOGOOSH:

 * EURONEWS TV INTERVIEW
 * EURONEWS TV INTERVIEW (German)
 * THE GUARDIAN
 * LA TIMES
 * THE TIMES OF ISRAEL
 * HUFFINGTON POST
 * DAILY MAIL
 * DIE WELT
 * DE VOLKSKRANT
 * THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE
 * THE WORLD


CONTACT X

AGENT

Name:Agentur Hoestermann Telephone:+49.30.6950.1881 Email:mail@hoestermann.de

MANAGER

Name:Paul Becker US #:+1.310.8611.433 Email:paul@paulbecker-talent.com

All pictures by YASMINE ASHA



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