Navíd Akhavan
Navíd Akhavan ( ; also Navid Navid ; born June 9, 1980 in Tehran , Iran ) is a German-Iranian actor.
Life
Because of the Iran-Iraq war , the family fled their homeland with Navíd, who was then four years old. They lived in the USA for some time, but since 1985 Navíd has lived in Germany with his father, mother and brother Omid, who is three years younger.
Navíd grew up trilingual (English, Persian, German) and got to know the stage and the audience very early through his father, a concert organizer. At the age of eight he began to dance on stage and performed more than 200 times in the opening act at various concerts. After his training at the Cologne drama school Center for Movement, Drama and Dance from 1999 to 2002, engagements in theater, film and television productions soon followed. He acted both in Shakespeare's Macbeth and as Romeo in Romeo and Juliet .
A leading role in Elmar Fischer's Stranger Friend earned him a 2003 nomination for the German Film Award in the Best Actor category . In the same year the film won the First Steps Award , the Digital Visions Award and the Filmz Mainz Audience Award .
Navíd Akhavan now lives in Cologne and is in a relationship with the photographer Yasmine Ghassemi.
Filmography (selection)
- 2001: Anam
- 2001: Happy Halloween
- 2002: Three women, a plan and the big money
- 2003: SK Kölsch
- 2003: Stranger friend
- 2003: Wolffs Revier
- 2003–2005: SOKO Cologne
- 2005: Playa del futuro
- 2005: Unfamiliar
- 2005: King of Kreuzberg
- 2006: SOKO Kitzbühel
- 2007: Metropolitan area (episode character assassination )
- 2008: In the last second
- 2008: A moment of freedom
- 2009: Women Without Men - Zanan-e Bedun-e Mardan
- 2009: Salami Aleikum
- 2010: The Criminalist - Guilt and Atonement
- 2012: Murder Commission Istanbul: Blood ties
- 2012: Tatort: A New Life
- 2012: Pastewka (episode The Reading )
- 2013: 45 minutes to Ramallah
- 2013: 300 words of German
- 2014: The Mamba
- 2015: Septembers of Shiraz
- 2017: Vacation from life
- 2018: Alert for Cobra 11 - The Autobahn Police (Episode Hooray for Bollywood )
- 2018: Crime scene: Borowski and the house of spirits
Prizes and awards
- 1st prize of the National Dance Competitions (five times in total)
- Nomination for best leading actor at the German Film Award
Web links
- Navíd Akhavan in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Navíd Akhavan at filmportal.de
- Homepage of the actor
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Akhavan, Navíd |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Akhavan, Navid |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Iranian actor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 9, 1980 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Tehran , Iran |