Navid was born in Teheran, Iran. Due to the Iran–Iraq War the four-year Navid had to escape with his family from his native country. After living in the United States, they immigrated in 1985 to Germany.
Navid grew up speaking English, German, and Farsi. Due to his fathers profession, an event manager, he was introduced to the stage and audience from an early age. He performed on stage for the first time when he was eight years old. Until the age of 16 he was the opening act of dozens of concerts.
After he graduated from a school for performing arts in Cologne, Germany "Schauspiel Zentrum" in 2001, he started working as an actor in film, TV and theatre.
He played the role of Lady Macbeth in William Shakespeares Macbeth and Romeo in Romeo and Juliet at the Altonaer Theater in Hamburg, Germany.
In 2003, his first leading role in Elmar Fischers "Fremder Freund", gained him a nomination at the Munich Filmfestival in the category "Best Actor in a Leading Role". In the same year the film won the acclaimed "First Steps Award", the "Digital Visions Award" as well as the Audience Award at the "Filmz Mainz" film festival.
His other leading roles include Mohsen in "Salami Aleikum" and Jamal in "45 Minutes to Ramallah" (both comedies directed by Ali Samadi Ahadi) as well as the drama "For a Moment Freedom" (written and directed by Arash T. Riahi), which won 30 awards at international film festivals and was the Austrian entry for the Academy Awards in 2009.
In the Hollywood production "Septembers of Shiraz", which can be seen on Netflix, he plays the part of Morteza next to Adrien Brody and Salma Hayek.
From 2005 until 2010 Navid and his brother Omid produced Persian pop music as "Navid & Omid". They released two studio albums (Faryad & Kolli Sefaresh) as well as several music videos during that time, which all Navid wrote and directed.
Navid is also a guest teacher and gives workshops on how to direct actors and produce music videos at the SAE Berlin.
In 2020 he narrated Dalia Sofer's novel Man of My Time for Audible.
Navid has also been working as a director for other artists. He has won awards at international filmfestivals with the music videos "November's Fall" and "Habs", which he made for the Iranian legendary singer Ebi.
The acclaimed music video "Behesht", which Navid wrote and directed for the Iranian superstar Googoosh, gathered international attention since it was the first time a homosexual love story had been portrayed in an Iranian music video. You'll find links to a selection of the international news articels that covered this on the "News/Press" section of the website.
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Name: | Agentur Hoestermann |
Telephone: | +49.30.6950.1881 |
Email: | mail@hoestermann.de |
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Name: | Paul Becker |
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Email: | paul@paulbecker-talent.com |
All pictures by YASMINE ASHA