Ramin Yazdani

Birthday: 1952-07-20
Birthplace: Isfahan, Iran
Gender: Male
Owned By: Unowned

Ramin Yazdani (born July 20, 1952, in Isfahan, Iran) is an Iranian-German actor and director.

Ramin Yazdani grew up in Iran, where he gained his first theatrical experiences as a teenager. After studying economics, theater studies, acting, and film in the United States, he initially returned to Iran before moving to Germany in 1985. In Hamburg, he founded the Persian Theater in 1991 and the Festival of Iranian Theater in 1995; he also worked at venues including the Deutsches Schauspielhaus, the Thalia Theater, the Hamburg State Opera, and Kampnagel. In addition to his work as a director, he realized numerous independent theater projects.

Since the early 1990s, Yazdani has appeared regularly in film and television productions. His credits include *Hallo, Onkel Doc!*, *Ich Chef, Du Turnschuh*, *Der Medicus*, *Kreuzweg*, *Familie verpflichtet*, and the Norwegian series *Nobel*. For his lead role in *Si-o-se Pol – Die letzten Tage des Parvis K.*, he received multiple international awards for Best Actor. Furthermore, he has held guest roles in series such as *SOKO Leipzig*, *Notruf Hafenkante*, and *Großstadtrevier*, and has also worked as a voice actor for radio plays.

In 2021, Yazdani participated in the #allesdichtmachen campaign, in which actors offered satirical commentary on COVID-19 containment measures. He lives in Hamburg and is the father of the historian Kaveh Yazdani.

Credits

	Year	Title	Character
	2025-05-29	Highly Explosive	Nika Shabani
	2024-12-11	Die schönste Bescherung	Navid
	2023-12-28	Hades - Eine (fast) wahre Geschichte	Faras
	2022-04-28	Rabiye Kurnaz vs. George W. Bush	Farhad Khan
	2021-09-04	Familie ist ein Fest - Taufalarm	Masud Manipur
	2021-01-19	BA HAM
	2020-03-12	Alle in einem Boot	Arif
	2017-05-21	A Summer in Cyprus	Ioannis
	2016-11-25	Almuth und Rita - Zwei wie Pech und Schwefel	Asim
	2016-06-24	Dead Man Working	Scheich Senior
	2015-12-10	Si-o-se Pol	Parvis Karimpour
	2015-10-09	Family Commitments	Aledrissi
	2015-04-11	Krüger aus Almanya	Ahmed
	2015-01-29	Famous Five 4	Ibrahim
	2014-03-20	Stations of the Cross	Arzt
	2014-02-02	Gibsy - Rukeli Trollmanns Kampf ums Leben	Schnipplo Trollmann
	2013-12-25	The Physician	Rabbi
	2012-11-20	Mit geradem Rücken	Anas Hafez
	2012-04-04	Iron Sky	Pakistani Representative
	2010-12-17	Zimtstern und Halbmond	Abu Kamal
	2008-12-08	Leo und Marie – Eine Weihnachtsliebe	Kellner im „1001 Nacht“
	2006-09-09	The Stoning	Prison Govenor
	2002-09-27	Falcons	Scarface
	2002-05-26	Life Kills Me
	2001-08-09	Bloody Nuisance
	1999-09-14	Ein Vater im Alleingang	Abu Farrat
	1999-01-02	Wut im Bauch	Elternsprecher
	1996-11-10	Gates of Fire	Khalil