Mahdi Pakdel

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| name = Mehdi Pakdel

| image = Mehdi Pakdel-Sahar Dolatshahi (cropped).jpg

| caption = Pakdel at the 2018 Fajr Film Festival

| native_name = مهدی پاکدل

| native_name_lang = Fa

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| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1980|7|1|df=y}}

| birth_place = Isfahan, Iran

| occupation = Actor

| yearsactive = 1993–present

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{{Interlanguage link|Masoud Pakdel|fa|مسعود پاکدل|lt=Masoud}} (brother)
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{{marriage|Behnoosh Tabatabaei|2011|2016|reason=divorced}}
{{marriage|Rana Azadivar|2020}}

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Mehdi Pakdel ({{langx|fa|مهدی پاکدل}}; born July 1, 1980) is an Iranian actor.

Career

Mehdi Pakdel lived in his hometown until the age of 17 when he left for the capital, Tehran, to pursue a career in arts.

While studying graphic arts at the Islamic Azad University, he designed a few theatrical posters and later established his own graphic studio to broaden his field of work.

His first stage appearance was in 1997, after which he began to pursue an acting career.

While his main focus has been on stage acting, he had several cinematic and television roles which gained him nationwide fame.

Pakdel has appeared in the series ‘The Scarlet Pearl’ (2004), ‘The Silence of the Sea’ (2005), ‘The First Night of Peace’ (2005), ‘The Innocent Ones’ (2008), ‘The Night Shall Pass’ (2008), ‘Missing’ (2010), ‘Setayesh’ (2009-2010), and ‘Kimiya’ (2013-2015), ‘The Accomplice’ (2020), ‘Jeyran’ (2022)

He has also acted in a number of movies, including ‘Blue’ (2000), ‘Fish Fall in Love’ (2004), ‘Hardships of the Maiden’ (2006), ‘Trouble’ (2007), ‘Tambourine’ (2007), ‘The Snitch’ (2008), ‘Without Permission’ (2010), ‘The Freeway’ (2010), ‘A Decent Ceremony’ (2011), and ‘Muhammad: The Messenger of God’ (2014).[https://www.beytoote.com/fun/actor-news/biography-mehdi-pakdel.html Mehdi Pakdel on beytoote News]

Personal life

Pakdel was initially married to actress Behnoosh Tabatabaei. They met in March 2007, and got married in 2011. They divorced in 2016. In 2020, reports of his marriage to Rana Azadivar surfaced in the media.

Filmography

= Film =

class="wikitable sortable"
Year ! Title ! Role !Director !Notes
2000 \|The Blue \|Yashar \|Hamid Labkhandeh \|
2004 \|Internet Adventures \| \|Hossein Ghenaat \|
2005 \|The Fish Fall in Love \|Reza \|Ali Rafie \|
rowspan="2" \|2006 \|Calamities of the Maiden \| \|Masoud Atyabi \|
Nightly \| \|Omid Bonakdar, Keyvan Alimohammadi \|
rowspan="2" \|2008 \|Predicament \|Reza Shemirani \|Mohammad Ali Sadjadi \|
Tambourine \| \|Parisa Bakhtavar \|
rowspan="2" \|2012 \|The Freeway \|Salman \|Abbas Rafei \|
Without Permission \|Amir \|Morteza Ahmadi Harandi \|
2013 \|Tomorrow \| \|Mehdi Pakdel, Iman Afsharian \|Director & Screenwriter
2014 \|Raspberry \| \|Saman Salur \|
2015 \|Muhammad: The Messenger of God \|Abu Talib \|Majid Majidi \|
rowspan="2" \|2016 \|Sometimes \|Mani \|Mohamad Reza Rahmani \|
Dead End of Trust \| \|Hamid Kaviani \|
rowspan="2" \|2017 \|Midday Adventures \|Masoud Keshmiri \|Mohammad Hossein Mahdavian \|
House of Paper \|Taha \|Mehdi Sabbaghzadeh \|
rowspan="2" \|2018 \|Istanbul Junction \|Fariborz \|Mostafa Kiaei \|
The Lost Strait \|Reza \|Bahram Tavakoli \|
2020 \|Infatuate Narcissus \|Reza / Aref Ghazvini \|Seyyed Jalalaldin Dori \|
rowspan="2" \|2021 \|Tara \| \|Kaveh Ghahreman \|
At the End of Evin \| \|Mehdi Torab Beigi, Mohammad Torab Beigi \|

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Year

! Title

! Role

!Director

!Notes

2000

|The Blue

|Yashar

|Hamid Labkhandeh

2004

|Internet Adventures

|Hossein Ghenaat

2005

|The Fish Fall in Love

|Reza

|Ali Rafie

rowspan="2" |2006

|Calamities of the Maiden

|Masoud Atyabi

Nightly

|Omid Bonakdar, Keyvan Alimohammadi

rowspan="2" |2008

|Predicament

|Reza Shemirani

|Mohammad Ali Sadjadi

Tambourine

|Parisa Bakhtavar

rowspan="2" |2012

|The Freeway

|Salman

|Abbas Rafei

Without Permission

|Amir

|Morteza Ahmadi Harandi

2013

|Tomorrow

|Mehdi Pakdel, Iman Afsharian

|Director & Screenwriter

2014

|Raspberry

|Saman Salur

2015

|Muhammad: The Messenger of God

|Abu Talib

|Majid Majidi

rowspan="2" |2016

|Sometimes

|Mani

|Mohamad Reza Rahmani

Dead End of Trust

|Hamid Kaviani

rowspan="2" |2017

|Midday Adventures

|Masoud Keshmiri

|Mohammad Hossein Mahdavian

House of Paper

|Taha

|Mehdi Sabbaghzadeh

rowspan="2" |2018

|Istanbul Junction

|Fariborz

|Mostafa Kiaei

The Lost Strait

|Reza

|Bahram Tavakoli

2020

|Infatuate Narcissus

|Reza / Aref Ghazvini

|Seyyed Jalalaldin Dori

rowspan="2" |2021

|Tara

|Kaveh Ghahreman

At the End of Evin

|Mehdi Torab Beigi, Mohammad Torab Beigi

= Web =

class="wikitable sortable"
Year ! Title ! Role !Director !Platform
2020 \|The Accomplice \|Farhad Sabouri \|Mostafa Kiaei \|Filimo, Namava
2022–2023 \|Jeyran \|Salman \|Hassan Fathi \|Filimo
2023 \|Amsterdam \|Barbod \|Masoud Gharagozlu \|Tamashakhaneh

class="wikitable sortable"

Year

! Title

! Role

!Director

!Platform

2020

|The Accomplice

|Farhad Sabouri

|Mostafa Kiaei

|Filimo, Namava

2022–2023