Jamshid Mashayekhi

Jamshid Mashayekhi
Born (1934-11-26) November 26, 1934
Tehran, Iran
Occupation Actor, Humanitarian
Years active 1956–present
Spouse(s) Giti Raoufi (m. 1960)
Children Nader (b. 1962)
Nazanin (b. 1969)

Jamshid Mashayekhi (Persian: جمشید مشایخی , born 26 November 1934) is an Iranian actor in Iranian cinema.

Career

Mashayekhi began professional acting on stage in 1957. His first feature film role was Brick and Mirror (1965, Ebrahim Golestan). After a four-year break, he acted in The Cow (1969, Darius Mehrjui) and Kaiser (Qeysar) (1969, Masoud Kimiai). Mashayekhi commonly appears as an elderly grandfather because of his white hair and charismatic face and figure. He received a best performance award for The Grandfather (1985, Majid Gharizadeh) from the First Festival of Non-aligned Countries in North Korea.

Selected filmography

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