Mehdi Hashemi

Education

He studied performance art and graduated in 1973 from the University of Tehran, Iran.

Career

The actor began his theatre/cinema career with Dariush Farhang in 1969. The peak time of his activities was between 1981 and 1996 when he played in several Iranian television series and movies. However it was the television complex of Soltan-o-Shaban (Sultan and Shepherd), shot and broadcast around 1984-1985 which made him famous.

He has acted in the films of many great Iranian directors including Bahram Beizai, Rakhshan Bani Etemad and Mohsen Makhmalbaf.

Achievements

• He also is the winner of the ninth Iranian Fajr Film Festival award, Simorgh-e-Bolourin, for his playing in the film "Do Film Ba Yek Belit" (translates "one ticket for two movies").