Mehdi Bajestani
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{{Infobox person
| name = Mehdi Bajestani
| image = Holy Spider Red Carpet - The 75th Cannes Film Festival 11 (cropped).png
| caption = Bajestani at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival
| native_name = مهدی بجستانی
| native_name_lang = Fa
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1975|01|12}}
| birth_place = Bajestan, Razavi Khorasan province, Iran
| occupation = Actor
| years_active = 1996–present
}}
Mehdi Bajestani ({{langx|fa|مهدی بجستانی}}; born January 12, 1975) is an Iranian actor. He is best known for his performance as Saeed Hanaee in the crime thriller Holy Spider (2022), for which he earned a Robert Award nomination, a Bodil Award nomination and a German Film Award nomination.
Career
He is member of the Naqshineh Theatre group.
Filmography
= Film =
- Thirteen (2003) short film, directed by Vahid Rahbani{{Cite web |date=2005-07-16 |title=يك فيلم كوتاه ايراني در آمريكا به نمايش درمي‌آيد |url=https://www.isna.ir/news/8404-10208/يك-فيلم-كوتاه-ايراني-در-آمريكا-به-نمايش-درمي-آيد |access-date=2022-11-25 |website=ایسنا |language=fa}}
- There Are Things You Don't Know (2010), directed by Fardin Saheb Zamani
- Resident of the Middle Floor (2014), directed by Shahab Hosseini
- Sweet Taste of Imagination (2015), directed by Kamal Tabrizi
- Mahrokh's House (2021), directed by Shahram Ebrahimi
- Holy Spider (2022), directed by Ali Abbasi{{Cite web |last=Davis |first=Clayton |date=2022-09-07 |title=How 'Close,' 'Holy Spider' and 'Sr.' Highlight the Need for More International and Documentaries in Best Picture |url=https://variety.com/2022/awards/awards/close-holy-spider-sr-robert-downey-oscars-chances-1235362985/ |access-date=2022-11-25 |website=Variety |language=en-US}}
- Tatami (2023), directed by Guy Nattiv and Zar Amir Ebrahimi
- A Good Day Will Come (2024), short film directed by Amir Zargara
= Television =
- Whisper (2018) TV series, directed by Ebrahim Sheibani
Theatre
- The Caucasian Chalk Circle, 1997, by Bertolt Brecht, directed by Hamid Samandarian, Tehran.
- Waiting for Godot (1998), by Samuel Beckett, directed by Vahid Rahbani, Tehran and Paris.
- Rhinoceros (2001), by Eugène Ionesco, directed by Vahid Rahbani, Tehran.
- Poor Bitos (2002), by Jean Anouilh, directed by Hamid Mozaffari, Tehran.
- Like Blood for Steak (2004), by Mohammad Charmshir, directed by Hassan Majooni, Tehran.
- The Unexpected Man, 2005, by Yasmina Reza, directed by Vahid Rahbani, Tehran.{{Cite web |title=بیوگرافی بازیگران فیلم عنکبوت مقدس [داستان و عوامل] |url=https://namnamak.com/%D9%81%D8%B1%D9%87%D9%86%DA%AF-%D9%88-%D9%87%D9%86%D8%B1/%D8%B3%DB%8C%D9%86%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%8C%D8%AA%D8%A6%D8%A7%D8%AA%D8%B1%D8%8C%D8%AA%D9%84%D9%88%DB%8C%D8%B2%DB%8C%D9%88%D9%86/%D9%81%DB%8C%D9%84%D9%85-%D8%B9%D9%86%DA%A9%D8%A8%D9%88%D8%AA-%D9%85%D9%82%D8%AF%D8%B3 |access-date=2022-11-25 |website=نم نمک |language=fa-IR}}
- Julius Caesar, Told by a Nightmare, (2045), by Naghmeh Samini, directed by, Kioomars Moradi, Tehran.{{Cite web |title=بایگانی‌های مهدی بجستانی |url=https://banifilmonline.ir/tag/مهدی-بجستانی/ |access-date=2022-11-25 |website=بانی فیلم |language=fa-IR}}
- The Invisible Cities (2005), by Akbar Alizad, directed by Hassan Majoni, Tehran.{{Cite web |title=مهدی بجستانی - بیوگرافی مهدی بجستانی {{!}} مشخصات |url=https://moshakhasat.ir/person/%D9%85%D9%87%D8%AF%DB%8C-%D8%A8%D8%AC%D8%B3%D8%AA%D8%A7%D9%86%DB%8C |access-date=2022-11-25 |website=moshakhasat.ir}}
- Eleutheria (2005), by Samuel Beckett, directed by Vahid Rahbani, and Mohammad Reza Jozi Tehran.{{Cite web |title=مهدی بجستانی - بازیگر و بازیگردان: فیلم ها و آثار {{!}} منظوم |url=https://www.manzoom.ir/name/nm0753684/%D9%85%D9%87%D8%AF%DB%8C-%D8%A8%D8%AC%D8%B3%D8%AA%D8%A7%D9%86%DB%8C |access-date=2022-11-25 |website=Manzoom |language=fa-ir}}
- Don Camillo (2006), written and directed by Kourosh Narimani, Tehran.{{Cite web |last=تازه |first=حرف |date=2018-10-09 |title=مهدی بجستانی {{!}} بیوگرافی و عکس های مهدی بجستانی و همسرش |url=https://harfetaze.com/25826/مهدی-بجستانی/ |access-date=2022-11-25 |website=مجله اینترنتی حرف تازه |language=fa}}
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External links
- {{IMDb name|8968865}}
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20070930185437/http://www.naqshineh.net/English/Htmls/About%20us/About%20us-English-Mehdi%20Hoseini%20Bajestani.htm Biography from Naqshineh Theatre]
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Category:20th-century Iranian male actors
Category:Iranian male stage actors
Category:21st-century Iranian male actors
Category:Iranian male film actors
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