Hossein Yari (also Hosein Yari, Persian: ???? ?????) was born in 1968 in Tehran, Iran.
He started acting in theatre first, then joined the Iranian TV.
The TV series Shabe Dahom (?? ??? – The Tenth Night), directed by Hassan Fathi, owes much of its popularity to Yari's performance.
Yari won the best actor in a leading role for his performance in maturity 1999.
In 2005, Yari starred in the internationally acclaimed film Dame sobh (?? ??? – Day Break) as a prisoner on Death Row whose execution (with the slim chance of a pardoning) keeps getting postponed.