{{Use dmy dates|date=January 2021}} {{short description|Iranian actor}} {{Infobox person | name = Amir Aghaei | image = Butterfly Swimming movie press conference 2020-02-02 34.jpg | image_size = 220px | caption = Aghaei at the [[38th Fajr Film Festival|2020 Fajr Film Festival]] | native_name = امیر آقایی | native_name_lang = Fa | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1970|08|01}} | birth_place = [[Urmia]], [[Pahlavi Iran|Iran]] | height = | birth_name = | occupation = {{hlist|Actor|author|photographer}} | years_active = 2001–present }}
'''Amir Aghaei''' ({{langx|fa|امیر آقایی}}; born August 1, 1980) is an Iranian actor and author.<ref>[https://www.salamcinama.ir/profile/ormafiy1b0d61k0/%D8%A7%D9%85%DB%8C%D8%B1-%D8%A2%D9%82%D8%A7%DB%8C%DB%8C بیوگرافی امیر آقایی]</ref>
==Career== Amir Aghaei made his cinematic debut by performing in Ebrahim Hatami-Kia's ‘Low Heights’ (2001).
Among his movies are ‘The Second Woman’ (2007), ‘Elixir and Dust’ (2008), ‘Hell, Purgatory, Heaven’ (2008), ‘Death is My Trade’ (2010), ‘Sa'adat Abad’ (2010), ‘Hush! Girls Don't Scream’ (2012), ‘Wednesday, 9 May’ (2014) and ‘Mermaid’ (2015).
Aghaei has also performed in a number of series including ‘The Gift of Darkness’ (2010), ‘The First Night of Peace’ (2005), ‘The Innocents’ (2008), ‘The Red Soil’ (2000) and ‘Remembrance’ (2013). He is also interested in painting, photography and poetry. He has exhibited his works in a number of galleries and published a book of poetry titled 'Willows in the Wind' (2010).
== Filmography ==
=== Film === {| class="wikitable plainrowheaders sortable" style=font-size:100% ! scope="col" | Year ! scope="col" | Title ! scope="col" | Role ! scope="col" | Director ! scope="col" class="unsortable" | Notes ! scope="col" class="unsortable" | {{abbr|Ref(s)|references}} |- ! scope=row|2002 |''[[Low Heights]]'' |Hassan |[[Ebrahim Hatamikia]] | | |- ! scope=row|2007 |''The Other Wife'' | |[[Sirus Alvand]] | | |- ! scope=row rowspan="3" |2008 |''The Last Role'' | |Reza Ziaee Doostan | | |- |''Elixir and Dust'' |Reza |Abbas Rafei | | |- |''[[Niloofar (film)|Niloofar]]'' |Sheik Abbas |Sabine El Gemayel | | |- ! scope=row|2009 |''Hell, Purgatory, Paradise'' | |Bijan Mirbagheri | | |- ! scope=row rowspan="2" |2011 |''[[Felicity Land]]'' |Ali |[[Maziar Miri]] | | |- |''[[Death Is My Profession]]'' | |Amir Hossein Saghafi | | |- ! scope=row|2012 |''Private Life'' | |Hossein Farahbakhsh | | |- ! scope=row rowspan="3" |2013 |''[[Hush! Girls Don't Scream]]'' |Asal's father |[[Pouran Derakhshandeh]] | | |- |''A Cradle for the Mother'' |Mostafa |Panahbarkhoda Rezaee | | |- |''We're All Sinners'' |Farhad |Hassan Nazer | | |- ! scope=row rowspan="4" |2015 |''[[Wednesday, May 9]]'' |Jalal |[[Vahid Jalilvand]] | | |- |''The Nameless Alley'' |Babak |Hatef Alimardani | | |- |''Night Shift'' |Rahim |[[Niki Karimi]] | | |- |''360 Degree'' | |Sam Gharibian | | |- ! scope=row rowspan="2" |2016 |''[[Bodyguard (2016 film)|Bodyguard]]'' |Mr. Ashrafi |[[Ebrahim Hatamikia]] | | |- |''Mermaid'' | |Amir Masoud Aghababaian | | |- ! scope=row rowspan="4" |2017 |''Season of Nages'' |Reza Farjam |Negar Azarbaijani | | |- |''[[No Date, No Signature]]'' |Dr. Kaveh Nariman |[[Vahid Jalilvand]] | | |- |''Privacy'' |Babak |Ahmad Moazemi | | |- |''Lina'' |Uncle |Ramin Rasouli | | |- ! rowspan="2" scope="row" |2019 |''[[A Man Without a Shadow]]'' |Foad Dashtara |Alireza Raisian | | |- |''Russian'' |Toumaj |Amir Hossein Saghafi | | |- ! scope=row|2020 |''[[Drown (film)|Drown]]'' |Hashem |[[Mohammad Kart]] | | |- ! scope=row|2021 |''The Four Walls'' | |[[Bahman Ghobadi]] | | |- ! rowspan="3" scope="row" |2022 |''[[Killing a Traitor]]'' |Mehdi Baligh |[[Masoud Kimiai]] | | |- |''[[Motherless (film)|Motherless]]'' |Amirali |Morteza Fatemi | | |- |''[[Beyond the Wall (2022 film)|Beyond the Wall]]'' | |[[Vahid Jalilvand]] | | |- !scope="row" |2024 |''When You Were Not Here'' | |Kaveh Sajjadi Hosseini | | |- |{{TBA}} |''Nightcrawler'' | |[[Farzad Motamen]] | | |- |{{TBA}} |''Line of Rescue'' | |Vahid Mousaian | | |- |{{TBA}} |''1542'' | |Hadi Rahimi | | |}
===Web=== {| class="wikitable plainrowheaders sortable" style=font-size:100% ! scope="col" | Year ! scope="col" | Title ! scope="col" | Role ! scope="col" | Director ! scope="col" class="unsortable" | Platform ! scope="col" class="unsortable" | {{abbr|Ref(s)|references}} |- ! scope=row|2012 |''Icy Heart 3'' |Atila |Saman Moghaddam | rowspan="3" |[[Video CD]] | |- ! scope=row|2017 |''The Excellency'' |Esfandiar Parham |Sam Gharibian | |- ! scope=row|2019 |''Dance on the Glass'' |Edris Malek |Mehdi Golestaneh | |- ! scope=row|2020–2021 |''[[Aghazadeh (TV series)|Blue Blood]]'' |Nima Bahri |Behrang Tofighi |[[Filimo]], Namava | |- ! scope=row|2022 |''Cold Blooded'' | |Amir Hossein Torabi |Filmnet | |- ! scope=row|2023–2024 |''Fereshteh's Sin'' |Navid Ashiri |Hamed Angha |[[Filimo]] | |}
===Television=== *''[[Ferris wheel (Series)|Ferris wheel]]'' (2016) *''[[The Recall (series)|The Recall (TV series)]]'' (2011) *Lotus (2008) *The day arises (2006) *The passed way (2005)<ref>{{Cite web|date=11 September 2020|title=بیوگرافی امیر آقایی + فیلم و سریال|url=https://film2irani.ir/amir-aghaei-biography/|access-date=12 September 2020|website=فیلم تو ایرانی|language=fa-IR}}</ref>
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== * {{IMDb name|3132725}} * [https://web.archive.org/web/20141013132128/http://www.sourehcinema.com/People/People.aspx?id=138201180503 Amir Aghaei] in Internet database of Soureh Cinema * [https://film2irani.ir/amir-aghaei-biography/ Amir Aghaei] on Film2irani * {{Instagram|amir_aghaee}}
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