Mehdi Hashemi (actor), Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Mehdi Hashemi (actor)

actor

Date of Birth: 07-Dec-1946

Place of Birth: Langarud, Gilan Province, Iran

Profession: screenwriter, actor, film director, director

Nationality: Iran

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

Mehdi Hashemi (Persian: ???? ??????, also Romanized as Mehdi Hashemi, Persian pronunciation: [meh'di? h???e'mi?], born 7 December, 1946) is an Iranian actor, screenwriter, and director. He studied performance art and graduated in 1973 from the University of Tehran, Iran.
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 TV series and movies. However it was the TV complex of Soltan-o-Shaban (Sultan and Shepherd), shot and broadcast around 1984-85 which made him famous. He also is the winner of the ninth International Fajr Film Festival award, Crystal Simorgh, for his playing in the film Do Film Ba Yek Belit (translates "one ticket for two movies"). He is the husband of Iranian actress, Golab Adineh, and brother of Nasser Hashemi.
He has acted in the films of many great Iranian directors including Bahram Beizai, Rakhshan Bani Etemad and Mohsen Makhmalbaf.