Homayoun Ershadi

Homayoun Ershadi

Born: March 26, 1947
in Isfahan, Iran
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.

Movies for Homayoun Ershadi...

The Return Of Soraya M: A Story Of Revenge
Title: The Return Of Soraya M: A Story Of Revenge
Character: The Priest
Released: October 6, 2025
Type: Movie
A Story of Revenge
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Title: Schemer
Released: October 1, 2023
Type: TV
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.
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The Sixth Day
Title: The Sixth Day
Released: June 25, 2022
Type: Movie
A prisoner named Ahmed, who has only five days to find the answer to a few riddles in order to survive.
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Laleh
Title: Laleh
Character: Mr. Shahin
Released: March 18, 2022
Type: Movie
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.
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The Town
Title: The Town
Released: February 2, 2022
Type: Movie
The story of a young man who is interested in acting, who is accepted in the audition of a big movie, and in order to join this project and achieve his dream of becoming an actor, he has to accept the special conditions and mental and psychological exercises of the acting group in an isolated town.
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Mahan
Title: Mahan
Released: February 1, 2022
Type: Movie
Mahan finds out that he has cancer
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Revision Sentence
Title: Revision Sentence
Released: December 9, 2021
Type: Movie
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No Choice
Title: No Choice
Character: head of the hospital
Released: November 3, 2020
Type: Movie
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.
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Blue Like the Sky
Title: Blue Like the Sky
Character: Narrator
Released: January 1, 2019
Type: Movie
A documentary about the history of Esteghlal F.C. From Docharkheh savaran to Taj, to Esteghlal.
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Cypress Under Water
Title: Cypress Under Water
Released: November 21, 2018
Type: Movie
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.
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Hattrick
Title: Hattrick
Released: April 20, 2018
Type: Movie
Four friends run over something after a party in this psychological thriller set in Iran of the empty lives of the middle class when they get together in groups, emotional explosions start happening along moral fault lines.
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Waiting for Kiarostami
Title: Waiting for Kiarostami
Character: Koroush Sinaki
Released: December 4, 2017
Type: Movie
Inspired by real events, Waiting for Kiarostami focuses on the life of Dorsa, a medical student at Ningbo University in China, who has to choose between her father’s wish for her to become a doctor, and her own passion to become a singer and an actress. When Hossein Khandan nominates Dorsa to play the leading role in Abbas Kiarostami’s next film slated to shoot in China, Dorsa’s mom, who shares her passion for acting and the arts and is unconditionally on Dorsa’s side, becomes an acting coach to help her through the casting process; whereas her father opposes his daughter’s involvement in anything other than her studies. Dorsa faces some challenges in her quest to find a balance between her true passion and her family life.
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Mohey
Title: Mohey
Released: December 2, 2017
Type: Movie
Mohey is separated from her twin sister and abused after she is plucked from an orphanage as a girl. She becomes trapped in a life of underhand dealings and illegal trading, where her intellect and beauty are used as commodities. When she is coerced into a temporary marriage to secure a deal...
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Lina
Title: Lina
Character: Father
Released: November 7, 2017
Type: Movie
Maryam finds out that her parents are not her biological parents.
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Italy Italy
Title: Italy Italy
Character: Himself
Released: October 4, 2017
Type: Movie
Barfa and Nader meet each other and get marry but little by little their life begin to reach it's crisis levels.
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Dead End of Trust
Title: Dead End of Trust
Character: Sarhang Amiri
Released: February 7, 2017
Type: Movie
It's a simple story of fondness. "Dead End of Trust" tells the story of a love - from inside - a love made of same "blood" still some time remains which is worth more than what has lasted so far.
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Calm Breaths
Title: Calm Breaths
Released: January 1, 2017
Type: Movie
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.
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The Last Inhabitant
Title: The Last Inhabitant
Released: July 12, 2016
Type: Movie
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.
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Ali and Nino
Title: Ali and Nino
Character: Safar Khan
Released: January 27, 2016
Type: Movie
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.
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The Little Black Fish
Title: The Little Black Fish
Released: October 27, 2015
Type: Movie
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Utopia
Title: Utopia
Character: Najib
Released: July 15, 2015
Type: Movie
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.
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Inadvertent
Title: Inadvertent
Released: October 22, 2014
Type: Movie
Sometimes you try to control your surrounding events, but sometimes inadvertent occasions will change the course of your life.
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A Most Wanted Man
Title: A Most Wanted Man
Character: Abdullah
Released: July 25, 2014
Type: Movie
A Chechen Muslim illegally immigrates to Hamburg and becomes a person of interest for a covert government team which tracks the movements of potential terrorists.
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Apparition
Title: Apparition
Released: June 22, 2014
Type: Movie
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.
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A 5 Star
Title: A 5 Star
Character: Mirakabadi
Released: May 7, 2014
Type: Movie
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...
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The Sinners
Title: The Sinners
Character: Hajir Khatam
Released: October 2, 2013
Type: Movie
Two homicide detectives investigates the murder of a woman ...
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Good to Be Back
Title: Good to Be Back
Character: Merati
Released: May 29, 2013
Type: Movie
Dentist Farzad has returned to Iran after many years abroad to escape his anxieties and daily stresses. Farzad is delighted to be reunited with his old friend, Kambiz, who has been his seaside neighbor for years. However, the appearance of a mysterious object scuppers any hopes of a straightforward homecoming. When a doctor, Yasamin, gets dragged into the story, Farzad and Kambiz find their friendship threatened. A tale of chaos and the nostalgia of home, this comedy offers superb performances from its leads.
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Zero Dark Thirty
Title: Zero Dark Thirty
Character: Hassan Ghul
Released: December 19, 2012
Type: Movie
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.
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A Simple Love Story
Title: A Simple Love Story
Character: Shater Aman
Released: December 19, 2012
Type: Movie
Gandom and Ali, who have been in love since childhood, have to overcome many obstacles to be together.
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Facing Mirrors
Title: Facing Mirrors
Character: Mr. Tolooyi
Released: October 24, 2012
Type: Movie
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.
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The Queen
Title: The Queen
Released: June 11, 2012
Type: Movie
During the war between Iran and Iraq, a scout (Milad Keymaram), in the Abadan Oil Refinery, tries to reveal geographical coordinates of Iraqi soldiers' ambushes for Iranian army forces to kill them easily by bombardments. Meanwhile, he confronts with the soul of the previous killed scout (Mostafa Zamani) who did the same which makes a challenge for him, between his own human deep feelings and killing innocent people of enemy ...
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Cheque
Title: Cheque
Character: Daryoosh
Released: May 9, 2012
Type: Movie
Despite their different characters and beliefs, four persons are obliged to spend two nights and one whole day together as they are going to have their shares after cashing a check.
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Orange Suit
Title: Orange Suit
Released: February 3, 2012
Type: Movie
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.
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One Of Us
Title: One Of Us
Released: October 11, 2011
Type: Movie
Sarah is an architect who tries to figure out the best way to treat her boss.
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The Turned World
Title: The Turned World
Character: Bahrami
Released: June 30, 2011
Type: Movie
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Aseman-e Mahboob
Title: Aseman-e Mahboob
Released: January 4, 2011
Type: Movie
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Aal
Title: Aal
Released: January 1, 2010
Type: Movie
An Iranian horror film.
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Life with Closed Eyes
Title: Life with Closed Eyes
Released: January 1, 2010
Type: Movie
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Agora
Title: Agora
Character: Aspasius
Released: May 17, 2009
Type: Movie
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.
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Shirin
Title: Shirin
Released: January 20, 2008
Type: Movie
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.
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The Kite Runner
Title: The Kite Runner
Character: Baba
Released: December 14, 2007
Type: Movie
After spending years in California, Amir returns to his homeland in Afghanistan to help his old friend Hassan, whose son is in trouble.
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From Afar
Title: From Afar
Character: Doctor
Released: October 10, 2006
Type: Movie
"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.
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Havana File
Title: Havana File
Released: April 1, 2006
Type: Movie
A scientist has to face many hurdles to be able to continue his work.
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The Wet Dream
Title: The Wet Dream
Released: February 4, 2006
Type: Movie
16 year-old Arash is reaching puberty. After years of living with his mother, he leaves her to live with his father. Once there, he visits a girl who changes his life.
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Portrait of a Lady Far Away
Title: Portrait of a Lady Far Away
Released: July 3, 2005
Type: Movie
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.
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Somewhere Else
Title: Somewhere Else
Released: October 22, 2003
Type: Movie
Five characters are stuck on an island, from where they hope to escape to "somewhere else", the utopia of their dreams. Dr. Tavussi (Ahmad Najafi) offers to help them illegally cross the ...
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The Fifth Reaction
Title: The Fifth Reaction
Released: January 1, 2003
Type: Movie
Fereshteh loses her home and her two sons after her husband's accidental death when Hadj Safdar, her stubborn and powerful father-in-law, forces her to return to her parents. She is faced with the loss of her visitation rights when Hadj plans to send his grandchildren to live in a remote town. With the help of her circle of women friends she tries to take them beyond his reach, but in a patriarchal society it is hard to find a safe haven.
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Disturbant
Title: Disturbant
Released: February 20, 2002
Type: Movie
An unknown woman disturbs the marriage of a cinema superstar.
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Close to Kiarostami
Title: Close to Kiarostami
Character: as Self
Released: January 1, 2000
Type: Movie
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.
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The Pear Tree
Title: The Pear Tree
Character: Mahmoud
Released: October 18, 1998
Type: Movie
A man contemplates life and compares it to a pear tree in his yard which stops producing fruit.
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Taste of Cherry
Title: Taste of Cherry
Character: Mr. Badii
Released: September 28, 1997
Type: Movie
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.
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Kakadu
Title: Kakadu
Released: April 1, 1995
Type: Movie
Directed by Tahmineh Milani.
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Title: Shamsolemareh
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: TV
A TV series directed by Saman Moghaddam.