Mahdi Pakdel

Mehdi Pakdel
مهدی پاکدل
Born (1980-07-01) 1 July 1980 (age 44)
Isfahan, Iran
OccupationActor
Years active1993–present
Spouses
(m. 2011; div. 2016)
(m. 2020)

Mehdi Pakdel (Persian: مهدی پاکدل; born July 1, 1980) is an Iranian actor.

Career

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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).[1]

Personal life

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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

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Film

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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
2006 Calamities of the Maiden Masoud Atyabi
Nightly Omid Bonakdar, Keyvan Alimohammadi
2008 Predicament Reza Shemirani Mohammad Ali Sadjadi
Tambourine Parisa Bakhtavar
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
2016 Sometimes Mani Mohamad Reza Rahmani
Dead End of Trust Hamid Kaviani
2017 Midday Adventures Masoud Keshmiri Mohammad Hossein Mahdavian
House of Paper Taha Mehdi Sabbaghzadeh
2018 Istanbul Junction Fariborz Mostafa Kiaei
The Lost Strait Reza Bahram Tavakoli
2020 Infatuate Narcissus Reza / Aref Ghazvini Seyyed Jalalaldin Dori
2021 Tara Kaveh Ghahreman
At the End of Evin Mehdi Torab Beigi, Mohammad Torab Beigi

Web

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Year Title Role Director Platform
2020 The Accomplice Farhad Sabouri Mostafa Kiaei Namava, Filimo
2022–2023 Jeyran Salman Hassan Fathi Filimo
2023 Amsterdam Barbod Masoud Gharagozlu Tamashakhaneh

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