23 Notable alumni of
University of Art
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The University of Art is 1046th in the world, 222nd in Asia, and 7th in Iran by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 23 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
- actorvoice actortelevision 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 for portraying Abdolhamid Rigi in When the Moon Was Full (2019).
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Fariborz Arabnia
- Occupations
- film directoractor
- Biography
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Fariborz Arabnia is an Iranian actor, writer, and director.
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Mitra Hajjar
- Occupations
- film actoractor
- 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
- 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 1994–95.
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Ali Hatami
- Occupations
- film producerfilm directorscreenwriter
- 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 film director and acting
- Occupations
- film actoractor
- Biography
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Sima Tirandaz is an Iranian actress.
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Gohar Kheirandish
- Occupations
- actorvoice actor
- 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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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 and painter.
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Homa Rousta
- Occupations
- actorfilm directortranslator
- 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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Tina Pakravan
- Enrolled in the University of Art
- Graduated with bachelor's degree in film director
- Occupations
- film directormake-up artistwriteractor
- Biography
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Tina Pakravan is an Iranian film director, writer, producer, and actress.
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Sogol Khaligh
- Years
- 1988-.. (age 36)
- Enrolled in the University of Art
- Graduated with bachelor's degree in theatrical director
- Occupations
- actorstage actortelevision 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.
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Hooman Khalatbari
- Occupations
- pianistmusicianconductor
- Biography
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Hooman Khalatbari is an Austrian- Iranian music conductor and pianist.
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Mina Khosrovani
- Years
- 20th Century
- Occupations
- film actoractor
- Biography
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Mina Khosrovani known professionally as Mina Kavani (مینا کاوانی), is an Iranian-French actress. She is best known for her role in No Bears (2022), which won the Special Jury Prize at the 79th Venice International Film Festival.
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Houshang Beheshti
- Enrolled in the University of Art
- In 1971 graduated with bachelor's degree
- Occupations
- stage actortelevision actorfilm actoractor
- Biography
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Houshang Beheshti was an Iranian actor.
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Soudabeh Moradian
- Occupations
- film directorfilm 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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Pouya Sarai
- Occupations
- composer
- Biography
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Pouya Saraei is an Iranian composer, arranger, conductor, lecturer, music critic, researcher, and musician.
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Arman Arian
- Occupations
- novelistchildren's writerwriter
- 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
- actorfilm producerfilm director
- 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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Rosa Jamali
- Occupations
- poetplaywrighttranslatorwriter
- Biography
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Rosa Jamali is an Iranian poet, translator, literary critic, and playwright.
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Massoud Mehrabi
- Occupations
- journalistwritercaricaturist
- 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.Mehrabi has been 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 (since1993) From 1982 to 1989, he worked at the economic desk of the Iranian National Television.
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Ahmad Jafari
- Occupations
- architect
- Biography
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Ahmad Jafari is an architect based in USA whose career began in the 1960s. He was with Disney Imagineering as an Architect and Art Director from 1966 to 2004 and has worked alongside Walt Disney and many Disney Legends. In 2006, he received the NFFC Disney Legend awards.
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Shahriyar Jamshidi
- Occupations
- musician
- Biography
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Shahriyar Jamshidi is a Kurdish-Canadian Kamancheh player and composer. His focus is mainly on Kurdish music.
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Isaiah Aram Minasian
- Occupations
- orchestratorviolinistcellist
- Biography
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Isaiah Aram Minasian, is a British violinist, cellist and orchestrator.
