Farhad Safinia

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Farhad Safinia (* 1975 in Tehran , Iran ) is an American screenwriter , film director and television producer of Iranian origin. He became internationally known through the US television series Boss , which Safinia produced for the US cable broadcaster Starz .

life and career

Farhad Safinia was born in 1975 in Tehran, Iran. His family left Iran when he was four to live first in Paris and then in London . Safinia attended the Charterhouse School in Godalming in Surrey in England and then studied economics at King's College (Cambridge) . During his time at King's College, Safinia directed and directed a number of stage productions for Cambridge University's Amateur Dramatic Club and other theater companies. After graduating, he moved to New York City , where he film at The New School -University and at the Tisch School of the Arts of New York University studied. In the summer of 2007, he married the Canadian actress Laura Regan in Halifax , who is the granddaughter of the Canadian politician John Harrison.

In 2004 Safinia met director Mel Gibson as an assistant during the post-production of his film The Passion of the Christ , and two years later they worked on the script for the period drama Apocalypto , which Gibson would direct. In 2011 and 2012, Safinia acted as creator and screenwriter and also as executive producer for the two seasons of the award-winning political series Boss, with Kelsey Grammer in the male lead. In 2019 he directed his first own feature film with the drama The Professor and the Madman with Natalie Dormer , Mel Gibson and Sean Penn . The script for the Mel Gibson production also comes from his pen.

Safinia currently resides in Los Angeles, California.

Filmography (selection)

Screenwriter

Film director

  • 2001: Outside the Box (short film)
  • 2019: The Professor and the Madman

Film and television producer

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Farhad Safinia interview
personal data
SURNAME Safinia, Farhad
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American screenwriter, film director and television producer of Iranian descent
DATE OF BIRTH 1975
PLACE OF BIRTH Tehran , Iran