Biography
Peyman Maadi (پیمان معادی) was born in 1970 in New York City to an Iranian couple. His father was a lawyer. Peyman Maadi's family moved back to Iran when he was 5 years old. He graduated in Metallurgical Engineering from Karaj Azad University. Maadi started his film career as a screenwriter in late 2000s. He is the writer of several famous Iranian films. Peyman Maadi started his acting career in Asghar Farhadi's film About Elly (2009). Two years later, he received the Silver Bear award for Best ...
Known For
Complete Filmography
Crime 101
2026
A series of high level jewelry thefts up and down the Pacific Coast Highway have gone unsolved for years, primarily because the perpetrator has lived ...

Woman and Child
2025
as Hamid
Mahnaz, a 40-year-old widowed nurse, struggles with her rebellious son, Aliyar, who has been suspended from school. Family tensions reach a peak durin...

Arenas
2025
At just 18, Brahim, a promising young footballer, is represented by his agent and cousin Mehdi. He is about to fulfil his dream of signing his first p...

Hard Shell
2024
Leila, a young and talented tightrope walker, was banned from performing by the authorities. Since then, she has been working in her father's old circ...

Opponent
2023
as Iman
In the aftermath of a devastating rumor, Iman and his family have been forced to flee Iran. As refugees, they end up in a run-down hotel in northern S...

Aporia
2023
as Jabir
Since losing her husband, Sophie has struggled to manage grief, a full-time job, and parenting her devastated daughter, but when a former physicist re...

Parfum
2023
A Los Angeles luxury real estate agent finds herself in crisis after making a strange discovery during a routine showing. PARFUM explores the absurd d...

Leila's Brothers
2022
as Manouchehr
At the age of 40, Leila has spent her entire life caring for her parents and four brothers. A family that is constantly arguing and under pressure fro...

Like a Fish on the Moon
2022
Technical Advisor
Haleh and her husband Amir are having to cope with a tough situation: their four-year-old son Ilya has suddenly stopped talking. There is evidently no...

Hamid's Symphony
2022
as Payman
Hamid Symphony is a story about the life of Hamid Alidosti, a former Iranian football star. "Hamid Symphony" invites you to watch life away from the h...

Night Shift
2020
as Asomidin Tohirov
Three officers are tasked with escorting an illegal immigrant to Charles de Gaulle airport, where he will be forced onto a plane and sent back to his ...

Walnut Tree
2020
as Qader
Qader, a bricklayer from Sardasht in Kurdistan Iran whose wife is pregnant with her 4th child, suddenly found himself amid a war crime perpetrated by ...

6 Underground
2019
as Murat Alimov
After faking his death, a tech billionaire recruits a team of international operatives for a bold and bloody mission to take down a brutal dictator.

Law of Tehran
2019
as Samad
Samad is nobody’s fool. The narcotics officer has seen his share of a drug dealer’s lies and games, and his patience has come to run thin. While searc...

Suddenly a Tree
2019
as Farhad
Farhad tells the story of his life to a psychiatrist. In the time of the Iran-Iraq War, Farhad is arrested and charged with illegal migration. When he...

Suddenly a Tree
2019
Producer
Farhad tells the story of his life to a psychiatrist. In the time of the Iran-Iraq War, Farhad is arrested and charged with illegal migration. When he...

Pig
2018
as Payman Maadi
A serial killer is going around killing Iran's most beloved filmmakers. Hasan, a blacklisted filmmaker himself, is depressed and wonders: why isn't he...

Bomb: A Love Story
2018
as Iraj
It’s 1988 and, at the height of the Iran-Iraq War, Tehran is bombed relentlessly. The days that pass are full of foreboding, and yet, love, affection,...

Bomb: A Love Story
2018
Director, Writer
It’s 1988 and, at the height of the Iran-Iraq War, Tehran is bombed relentlessly. The days that pass are full of foreboding, and yet, love, affection,...

Window Horses
2017
as Payman
Rosie Ming, a young Canadian poet, is invited to perform at a Poetry Festival in Shiraz, Iran, but she’d rather be in Paris. She lives at home with he...

Life and a Day
2016
as Morteza
Somaieh, the youngest daughter of an indigent family, is getting married and fear is overwhelming each and every member of the family regarding how to...

13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi
2016
as Amahl
An American Ambassador is killed during an attack at a U.S. compound in Libya as a security team struggles to make sense out of the chaos.

Last Knights
2015
as Emperor
When an evil emperor executes their leader, his band of knights – bound by duty and honour – embarks on a journey of vengeance that will not come to a...

Camp X-Ray
2014
as Ali
A young woman joins the military to be part of something bigger than herself and her small-town roots. Instead, she ends up as a new guard at Guantana...

Melbourne
2014
Amir and Sara are a young couple on their way to Melbourne to continue their studies. However, just a few hours before the departure of their flight, ...

Tales
2014
as Taxi Driver
Award-winning Iranian filmmaker Rakshan Banietemad ends her eight-year hiatus from feature filmmaking with this ingenious, mosaic-like narrative, whic...

The Snow on the Pines
2013
Director, Writer
Piano teacher Roya (Mahnaz Afshar) realizes that her marriage to Ali is in a deadlock when she discovers some of her husband's secrets. In the meantim...

Mourning
2011
as Masoud (voice)
A violent quarrel breaks out between a couple at midnight. Being at a relative's house in the north of Iran, they depart for Tehran in the middle of t...

From Iran, a Separation
2011
as Self - Actor
In March 2012, Iranian movie "A Separation" by Asghar Farhadi, won the Oscar Award for the Best Foreign Language Film. For the Iranian people this was...

A Separation
2011
as Nader
A married couple are faced with a difficult decision - to improve the life of their child by moving to another country or to stay in Iran and look aft...

About Elly
2009
as Peyman
The mysterious disappearance of a kindergarten teacher during a picnic in the north of Iran is followed by a series of misadventures for her fellow tr...

Cafe Setareh
2006
Writer
Filmmaker Saman Moghadam details the struggles of three women living in an antiquated district of Tehran in this emotionally resonant drama. Fabria's ...

Wedding Dinner
2006
Writer
Two youngsters from rich families fall in love and decide to get marry but they don't know that both their parents are broke. This creates funny situa...

Coma
2004
Writer
This comedy narrates the many adventures of a millionaire's handsome, sassy son named Amir - born into a world of privilege, he is used to getting eve...

Thirst
2003
Writer
A trio of misfits - a hoodlum, a master of disguise, and a thief join forces to perform one of the biggest and most daring heists of their lives. The ...

Swan Song
2001
Writer
After being unjustly expelled from university, a young couple return home to parents who are against their union. After the young man is arrested and ...
The Test
N/A
A soft-spoken immigrant taking a citizen evaluation test and a brilliant young behavioral psychologist supervising "the test" confront a terrorist gro...

Enemies
N/A
A solitary hitman's new job catches a detective's attention, leading both to discover unexpected similarities between them.