Homayoun Ershadi
March 26, 1947 · 79 years old
Homayoun Ershadi (sometimes spelled Homayon Ershadi), was 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-professi…
Known For
5 titles
The Kite Runner
Amir lives in California with his wife Soraya. He receives a call from his uncle Rahim Khan who urges him to travel to Afghanistan and rescue the son of Amir's childhood servant and friend, Hassan.
A Most Wanted Man
A Chechen Muslim illegally immigrates to Hamburg, where he gets caught in the international war on terror.
Agora
A historical drama set in Roman Egypt, concerning a slave who turns to the rising tide of Christianity in the hope of pursuing freedom while falling in love with his mistress, the philosophy and mathematics professor Hypatia of Al...
Taste of Cherry
An Iranian man drives his car in search of someone who will quietly bury him under a cherry tree after he commits suicide.
Ali and Nino
Love story of a Muslim Azerbaijani boy and Christian Georgian girl in Baku from 1918 to 1920.