27 Notable alumni of
University of Art
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The University of Art is 1004th in the world, 211th in Asia, and 6th in Iran by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 27 notable alumni from the University of Art sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Hootan Shakiba
- Enrolled in the University of Art
- Graduated with master's degree in acting
- Occupations
- actortelevision actorvoice actor
- Biography
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Hootan Shakiba is an Iranian actor. He is best known for his role as Habib Naghavi in Bachelors (2016–2019) which earned him a Hafez Award. Shakiba won the Crystal Simorgh for Best Actor and his second Hafez Award for portraying Abdolhamid Rigi in When the Moon Was Full (2019).
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Fariborz Arabnia
- Occupations
- actorfilm director
- Biography
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Fariborz Arabnia is an Iranian actor, writer, and director.
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Ali Hatami
- Occupations
- film producerscreenwriterfilm director
- Biography
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Ali Hatami was an Iranian film director, screenwriter, art director, and costume designer. The Tehran Times dubbed him "the Hafez of Iranian cinema due to the poetic ambiance of his movies."
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Sima Tirandaz
- Enrolled in the University of Art
- Graduated with master's degree in acting and film director
- Occupations
- actorfilm actor
- Biography
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Sima Tirandaz is an Iranian actress.
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Anahita Dargahi
- Enrolled in the University of Art
- Graduated with master's degree in art of painting
- Occupations
- actor
- Biography
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Anahita Dargahi is an Iranian actress. She is best known for her roles in the web series Forbidden (2018–2019), I Want to Live (2021), and The North Pole (2024). Dargahi received a Hafez Award nomination for her performance in The Loser Man (2022).
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Tina Pakravan
- Enrolled in the University of Art
- Graduated with bachelor's degree in film director
- Occupations
- writermake-up artistfilm directoractor
- Biography
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Tina Pakravan is an Iranian film director, writer, producer, and actress.
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Mitra Hajjar
- Occupations
- actorfilm actor
- Biography
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Mitra Hajjar is an Iranian actress. She has received various accolades, including a Crystal Simorgh, in addition to nominations for three Hafez Award, an Iran Cinema Celebration Award and an Iran's Film Critics and Writers Association Award.
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Laya Zanganeh
- Enrolled in the University of Art
- Graduated with bachelor's degree in theatre art
- Occupations
- actor
- Biography
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Laya Zanganeh is an Iranian theater and film actress. She got her Bachelor of Arts from college of Dramatic Arts in Tehran. She became famous after playing in the Under Your Protection series at 1994–1995.
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Gohar Kheirandish
- Occupations
- voice actoractor
- Biography
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Gohar Kheirandish is an Iranian actress and was born in Neyriz. While studying and working in Tehran, Kheirandish started working in television. Her first film, Days of Waiting, was directed by Asghar Hashemi. She then appeared in Lady, directed by Dariush Mehrjoyi.
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Sogol Khaligh
- Enrolled in the University of Art
- Graduated with bachelor's degree in theatrical director
- Occupations
- actortelevision actorstage actor
- Biography
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Sogol Khaligh is an Iranian actress. She is best known for her role as a trans man in The Accomplice (2020), for which she earned a Hafez Award nomination. In 2024, Khaligh received her first Hafez Award for her performance in The Notebook (2023–2024).
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Homa Rousta
- Occupations
- actortranslatorfilm director
- Biography
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Homa Rousta was an Iranian film and stage actress. She was the widow of stage director Hamid Samandarian.
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Hooman Khalatbari
- Occupations
- pianistconductormusician
- Biography
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Hooman Khalatbari is an Austrian- Iranian music conductor and pianist.
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Amir Noroozi
- Enrolled in the University of Art
- Studied theater arts education
- Occupations
- actor
- Biography
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Amir Norouzi is an Iranian actor and screenwriter. He is best known for his roles in I Want to Live (2021), Once Upon a Time Mars (2022–2023), and The Lost Prestige (2023). Norouzi received critical acclaim and a Crystal Simorgh for Best Actor nomination for his performance in the drama film Mom (2021).
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Houshang Beheshti
- Enrolled in the University of Art
- In 1971 graduated with bachelor's degree
- Occupations
- television actorstage actoractorfilm actor
- Biography
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Houshang Beheshti was an Iranian actor.
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Reza Abedini
- Occupations
- calligraphergraphic designerdesignerprofessor
- Biography
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Reza Abedini is a visual artist and graphic designer from Tehran, Iran. Between 1985 and 1990, he studied for degrees in design and the visual arts at the School of Fine Arts in Tehran and the Art University of Tehran. Subsequently, he has been working as a graphic designer since 1989. Abedini founded his studio, Reza Abedini Studio, in 1993. In his work, Abedini often blurs the lines between design and art. He engages with his Iranian Heritage in creative ways, often through calligraphy and typography. Typography is a crucial aspect of Abedini’s work, and he utilizes the Persian language as both an aesthetic and conceptual element in his designs. Reza Abedini was a participating artist for the first iteration of Framer Framed’s exhibition Crisis of History, between 2 May to 28 August 2014, curated by Robert Kluijver.
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Houshang Golmakani
- Occupations
- writerfilm directorjournalistshort story writer
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Houshang Golmakani is an Iranian journalist, film critic and director. He was born in Gorgan on March 23, 1954. Houshang Golmakani started his professional career in 1972 as a journalist and film critic for Tehran Economist. He graduated in cinema and television from the College of Dramatic Arts of Tehran in 1982.
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Soudabeh Moradian
- Enrolled in the University of Art
- In 1996 graduated with Bachelor of Fine Arts in film editor
- Occupations
- academicfilm directorartistfilm editor
- Biography
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Soudabeh Moradian is an Iranian-American independent filmmaker. A number of her movies have been in official selection of various international film festivals and many of them won awards. She has made many documentary series about Iranian rural women, and some independent documentaries about "war and madness" such as "Doomsday Machine"," Story Of The Land On Ashes","Mahin", "Voices Against Them" and some other narrative and docufiction films and series like "The Leader of Caravan","My Name Is Tomorrow" and "Les Chroniques d'iran". She made her first full feature-length narrative called Polaris in 2014 in Los Angeles and Seattle starring Bahram Radan, Alicja Bachleda, Elisabeth Röhm and Coby Ryan McLaughlin. The subjects of her movies are mainly based on social issues, women and psychological impacts of war.
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Arman Arian
- Occupations
- children's writernovelistwriter
- Biography
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Arman Arian is an Iranian author, novelist and researcher, best known for his first trilogy, Persians and I (Persian: پارسیان و من: کاخ اژدها). He is the youngest winner of the annual “The Book of The Year of Iran”. In addition to many national awards, he received the honorary diploma in the 31st IBBY World Congress in Copenhagen, Denmark (2008) by the International Board on Books for Young People the highest recognition available to creators of children's books. Although Arian is known as a children and young adults fantasy writer, he doesn't limit his genre to fantasy and also, his books are well received by wide range of readers from all age groups. Persians and I became the best-selling novel in the 19th Tehran International Book Fair, 2006.
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Majid Beheshti
- Enrolled in the University of Art
- In 1986 graduated with bachelor's degree
- Occupations
- television directorfilm directorfilm produceractor
- Biography
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Majid Beheshti is an Iranian actor, film producer, and theater director. He has also acted in various Television series. He has garnered most of his popularity and fame from his participation in these programs.
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Massoud Mehrabi
- Occupations
- caricaturistwriterjournalist
- Biography
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Massoud Mehrabi was an Iranian journalist, writer and caricaturist. He studied cinema at the Faculty of Dramatic Arts of the University of Art (1977–1982). and later passed a film production management course at the Industrial Management Institute (1983–84). Mehrabi started his professional career as a journalist in 1970, writing articles for several papers. He was the president and publisher of The Film Monthly magazine (since 1981), The Iranian Cinema Yearbook (since 1992) and the English-language Film International quarterly magazine (since 1993). From 1982 to 1989, he worked at the economic desk of the Iranian National Television.
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Rosa Jamali
- Occupations
- translatorplaywrightpoetwriter
- Biography
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Rosa Jamali is an Iranian poet, translator, literary critic, and playwright.
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Ahmad Jafari
- Occupations
- architect
- Biography
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Ahmad Jafari is an Iranian-American architect whose career began in the 1960s. He worked as an architect and art director at Walt Disney Imagineering from 1966 to 2004, collaborating with Walt Disney and several individuals later recognized as Disney Legends. In 2006, he received the NFFC Disney Legend Award.
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Esmael Barari
- Occupations
- film producerteacherfilm director
- Biography
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Esmael Barari; (born 1965), is an Iranian filmmaker, film director, screenwriter, film editor and film producer. He is director of World Iranian Film Center, a member of The Union of Iranian Cinema Producers and a member of international jury of Mostra Valencia Film Festival.
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Aliyeh Ataei
- Years
- 1981-.. (age 45)
- Enrolled in the University of Art
- Graduated with master's degree in play
- Occupations
- screenwriternovelistwriterplaywrightpoet
- Biography
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Aliyeh Ataei is an Iranian-Afghan novelist and screenplay writer who has written several books and short stories for multiple magazines such as Guernica and Michigan Quarterly Review. The main focus of her works is dedicated to the literature of immigration. She has won several literary awards, including Mehregan Adab.
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Fatemeh Emdadian
- Enrolled in the University of Art
- Studied art of sculpture
- Occupations
- artistsculptor
- Biography
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Fatemeh Emdadian is a contemporary Iranian sculptor based in Mehrshahr, Karaj, Iran. She often creates sculptures using wood, bronze, and various casting materials.
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Shahriyar Jamshidi
- Occupations
- musician
- Biography
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Shahriyar Jamshidi is a Kurdish-Canadian kamānche player and composer. His focus is mainly on Kurdish music.
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Isaiah Aram Minasian
- Occupations
- violinistorchestratorcellist
- Biography
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Isaiah Aram Minasian, is a British violinist, cellist and orchestrator.
