Personal Info
Birth date
1947-03-26 (78 Years)
Gender
Male
Known for
Acting
Place of birth
Isfahan, Iran
Also known as
Homayon Ershadi
همایون ارشادی
Homayoun Ershadi
Biography
Homayoun Ershadi (sometimes spelled Homayon Ershadi), is an Iranian actor. Ershadi was born in Isfahan, Iran in 1947. He studied architecture in Italy and worked in that field. Acclaimed Iranian New Wave director Abbas Kiarostami chose him to play the leading role in Taste of Cherry. A non-professional actor, who started acting in his middle age, he has had immediate success in both cinema and television, with his expressionless, relaxed face and monotonous voice often giving his characters an intellectual personality. Most recently he can be seen in the movie The Kite Runner, playing the role of Baba. He is one of few Iran-based Iranian actors that are permitted to act in Western movies. He currently resides in Karaj, Iran.
Filmography
Zero Dark Thirty
6.989
Overview:
A chronicle of the decade-long hunt for al-Qaeda terrorist leader Osama bin Laden after the September 2001 attacks, and his death at the hands of the Navy S.E.A.L. Team 6 in May, 2011.Schemer
NYR
Overview:
Barzo Shams, a successful businessman and tower builder, meets his old friend on the night of his only grandson's naming ceremony. Now this meeting has exposed Barzo's past life and will change his life.Agora
7
Overview:
A historical drama set in Roman Egypt, concerning philosopher Hypatia of Alexandria and her relationship with her slave Davus, who is torn between his love for her and the possibility of gaining his freedom by joining the rising tide of Christianity.The Kite Runner
7.332
Overview:
After spending years in California, Amir returns to his homeland in Afghanistan to help his old friend Hassan, whose son is in trouble.Taste of Cherry
7.664
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A middle-aged Tehranian man, Mr. Badii is intent on killing himself and seeks someone to bury him after his demise. Driving around the city, the seemingly well-to-do Badii meets with numerous people, including a Muslim student, asking them to take on the job, but initially he has little luck. Eventually, Badii finds a man who is up for the task because he needs the money, but his new associate soon tries to talk him out of committing suicide.A Most Wanted Man
6.469
Overview:
A Chechen Muslim illegally immigrates to Hamburg and becomes a person of interest for a covert government team tracking the movements of potential terrorists.Ali and Nino
6.7
Overview:
Muslim prince Ali and Georgian aristocrat Nino have grown up in the Russian province of Azerbaijan. Their tragic love story sees the outbreak of the First World War and the world’s struggle for Baku’s oil. Ultimately they must choose to fight for their country’s independence or for each other.Shirin
6.1
Overview:
A hundred and fourteen famous Iranian theater and cinema actresses and a French star: mute spectators at a theatrical representation of Khosrow and Shirin, a Persian poem from the twelfth century, put on stage by Kiarostami. The development of the text -- long a favorite in Persia and the Middle East -- remains invisible to the viewer of the film, the whole story is told by the faces of the women watching the show.Utopia
4.8
Overview:
Three interwoven stories of loneliness and isolation that centre around Janan, a woman from Afghanistan who travels to the UK for artificial insemination. Complications arise when William, a medical sciences student working in the clinic switches the donor's semen for his own.Kiarostami in Close up
NYR
Overview:
A documentary that focuses on Abbas Kiarostami's cinematic philosophy talking to himself and other figures, and also seeks the opinion about his works both inside and outside his homeland.Cypress Under Water
NYR
Overview:
The secret of the worldview of dignity is revealed? This mystery of sleep will spit Marsh, Mahro, Goodarz, Bahram, Jahangir Major Pushis. Jahanbakhsh begins a long journey to prove his innocence and the return of tranquility. A journey that will end the life of many of them.A Simple Love Story
4.5
Overview:
Gandom and Ali, who have been in love since childhood, have to overcome many obstacles to be together.The Pear Tree
6.8
Overview:
A man contemplates life and compares it to a pear tree in his yard which stops producing fruit.Facing Mirrors
6.368
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Rana has chosen a path in order to support her family, while Adineh (Eddie) has fled his home and city to escape his complicated situation as a transsexual man prevented from living as his true self by his family. They find themselves on the same journey and caused to know each other in a better way.Calm Breaths
NYR
Overview:
Mahia and Reza are a young couple shortly planning to marry. Reza is an architectural engineer and Mahia is his student. An accident in the neighbourhood takes place that changes the course of both their lives.No Choice
6
Overview:
A young homeless girl supports herself as a surrogate mother for money. A human rights attorney tries to help her change her life, but ithe challenges seem insurmountable. This is a rarely seen side of Iranian society.Fragrant
NYR
Overview:
Ali has a great talent for perfumery and will soon become a father. Along the way, he faces new challenges and must complete his unfinished work in a limited amount of time...Apparition
2
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A drunken, boorish general tyrannises his wife and his maid. When the wife discovers that her husband and the maid are having an affair, she turns the maid out of the house, little realising that the young woman is pregnant with the general's child. Years later, the general is dead, and a younger generation has risen with a new outlook on life and new problems to face... This flamboyantly stylised melodrama, loosely adapted from Ibsen, is the newest work by one of the legendary figures of Iran's New Wave.The Sixth Day
NYR
Overview:
A prisoner named Ahmed, who has only five days to find the answer to a few riddles in order to survive.Portrait of a Lady Far Away
6
Overview:
An old engineer who has separated from his wife and son and is living alone receive a phone call from a woman who tells him she wants to commit suicide. This put him to face a challenge.From Afar
NYR
Overview:
"From Afar" traces the malaise of a young artist and intellectual in three episodes: Book Burning, Breathing and Dawn. The Young protagonist lives in contemporary Tehran and he appears as a film student, an asthmatic businessman and a successful architect. In each story, he journeys toward a spiritual insight or emotion.A 5 Star
5.5
Overview:
A story about a poor girl working in a 5 star hotel in tehran and the workers of the hotel when somthing priceless will stolen...Italy Italy
3.5
Overview:
Barfa and Nader meet each other and get marry but little by little their life begin to reach it's crisis levels.Orange Suit
6.143
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The story of a professional photographer Hamed Aban and the radical change in his life. The teacher of his son gives him a book about nature and the cleaning of it. This changes him radically. He goes and hires himself in the municipality, wearing the orange suit like them and cleaning the streets, collecting garbage. Meanwhile his wife who is in Europe back home and is very angry with him. She insists on him to get back to his former work but he refusing. Then she wants a divorce and to take the son with herself to Europe.Laleh
5
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Laleh is a true story of a young woman in post-revolution Iran, struggling against all odds to break through in one of the most male dominated sports worldwide.Kakadu
NYR
Overview:
An alien is sent from Kakadu planet to earth for one week. He befriends a little girl Golnar and this is the beginning of their adventures.The Last Inhabitant
6
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In an Armenian village, evicted as a result of the Armenian-Azeri conflict, Abgar stays behind all alone in a gradually shrinking enemy ring. He is waiting for his daughter, who became a witness to her husband's murder by an angry mob and was hospitalized with a mental disorder. An Azeri named Ibrahim offers Abgar to work on the construction of a mosque and promises to find and bring Abgar's daughter instead... A few days later, Ibrahim finds the girl, named Yurga, in one of the psychiatric hospitals of Baku and brings her to Abgar. Abgar wants to leave the village with his daughter, but his skills as a stonemason are still needed for the construction of a new mosque. Abgar realizes that this work in the Azerbaijani village will be endless and realizes that he's been trapped.Acting
TBAShamsolemareh (1 Episode) as Unknown
2024Sky Blue as Unknown
2024Nilgoon as Unknown
2023Schemer (20 Episodes) as Unknown
2023Resembling Madness as Unknown
2023Fragrant as Unknown
2022The Sixth Day as Unknown
2022Laleh as Mr. Shahin
2022The Town as Unknown
2022Mahan as Unknown
2021Revision Sentence as Unknown
2020No Choice as head of the hospital
2019Blue Like the Sky as Narrator
2018Cypress Under Water as Unknown
2018Hattrick as Unknown
2017Waiting for Kiarostami as Koroush Sinaki
2017Mohey as Unknown
2017Lina as Father
2017Italy Italy as Himself
2017Dead End of Trust as Sarhang Amiri
2017Calm Breaths as Unknown
2016The Last Inhabitant as Unknown
2016Ali and Nino as Safar Khan Shirvanshir
2015The Little Black Fish as Unknown
2015Utopia as Najib
2014Inadvertent as Unknown
2014A Most Wanted Man as Abdullah
2014Apparition as Unknown
2014A 5 Star as Mirakabadi
2013The Sinners as Hajir Khatam
2013Good to Be Back as Merati
2012A Simple Love Story as Shater Aman
2012Zero Dark Thirty as Hassan Ghul
2012Facing Mirrors as Mr. Tolooyi
2012The Queen as Unknown
2012Cheque as Daryoosh
2012Orange Suit as Unknown
2011Principles as Unknown
2011The Turned World as Bahrami
2011Aseman-e Mahboob as Unknown
2010Aal as Unknown
2010Life with Closed Eyes as Unknown
2009Agora as Aspasius
2009Shirin as Unknown
2007The Kite Runner as Baba
2006From Afar as Doctor
2006Havana File as Unknown
2006The Wet Dream as Unknown
2005Portrait of a Lady Far Away as Unknown
2003Somewhere Else as Unknown
2003The Fifth Reaction as Unknown
2002Disturbant as Unknown
2000Kiarostami in Close up as as Self
1998The Pear Tree as Mahmoud
1997Taste of Cherry as Mr. Badii
1995Kakadu as Unknown