---
name: "Babak Karimi"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/babak-karimi"
fi1m_id: "babak-karimi"
imdb_id: "nm0439307"
tmdb_id: 41525
wikidata_id: "Q16048111"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "22 March 1960"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 3
average_fi1m_score: 79
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 3
updated: "2026-09-17T12:35:14.743142+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Babak Karimi

## Identity

Babak Karimi

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/babak-karimi
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** babak-karimi
- **IMDb ID:** nm0439307
- **TMDB ID:** 41525
- **Wikidata ID:** Q16048111
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babak_Karimi, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16048111, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0439307/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/41525

Actor. Born 22 March 1960 in Prague, Czechoslovakia.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 22 March 1960, Prague, Czechoslovakia
- **Active:** 2011–2016
- **Also known as:** بابک کریمی
- **Frequently works with:** [Asghar Farhadi](https://film.one/person/asghar-farhadi.md), [Alexandre Mallet-Guy](https://film.one/person/alexandre-mallet-guy.md), [Shahab Hosseini](https://film.one/person/shahab-hosseini.md)
- **Average Fi1m score:** 79, as actor, over 3 titles
- **Fi1m against the critics:** 79 to 74 across 3 titles
- **Score spread:** 1 at 80+, 2 at 60–79, 0 under 60
- **Lead roles:** 0 of 3 acting credits billed first or second
- **Genres:** Drama 3, Mystery 1, Thriller 1
- **Screen time:** 6 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $42m across 3 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babak_Karimi, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16048111, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0439307/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/41525

## Streaming the US now

- **Disney+:** [*A Separation*](https://film.one/film/a-separation.md) (93)
- **Amazon Prime Video:** [*The Salesman*](https://film.one/film/the-salesman.md) (72)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Babak Karimi is a Czech-Iranian actor and film editor. He was born on 22 March 1960 in Prague and is the son of Iranian actor and director Nosrat Karimi.

He is known for his roles in *A Separation* (2011) as the Interrogator, *The Past* (2013) as Shahryar, *The Salesman* (2016) as Babak and *The Life Ahead* (2020) as Mr Hamil. For his performance in *A Separation*, he shared the Silver Bear for Best Actor at the 61st Berlin International Film Festival in 2011.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (3)

- *The Salesman* (2016), Fi1m 72, as Babak — [page](https://film.one/film/the-salesman.md)
- *The Past* (2013), Fi1m 72, as Shahryar — [page](https://film.one/film/the-past.md)
- *A Separation* (2011), Fi1m 93, as Interrogator — [page](https://film.one/film/a-separation.md)

## Complete filmography (65)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Somewhere Between Memories* (2026), Actor
- *Balcanica* (2026), as Jalil
- *Black Rabbit, White Rabbit* (2025), as Babak / Antonio
- *Savushun* (2025), series, Actor
- *Sunshine Express* (2025), as The Judge
- *Guardian of the Field* (2025), as Helma's father
- *Azaazil* (2025), series, Actor
- *Nosrat Karimi, Being an Artist in Iran* (2024), Director, Producer
- *Terrestrial Verses* (2023), as (voice)
- *The Strait* (2023), as Hashem
- *Fossil* (2023), as Khosravi (Savaki)
- *Set Me Free* (2023), series, Actor
- *Vanished* (2023), as The old man
- *I Am Forough* (2022), Actor
- *The Wastetown* (2022), as Mohandes
- *Bucharest* (2022), Actor
- *Visiting Time* (2022), Actor
- *Lawless City* (2022), as Salar
- *The Lion Skin* (2022), series, Actor
- *Odyssey of Solitude* (2022), as Victor
- *The Loser Man* (2022), Actor
- *(Im)perfetti Criminali* (2022), as Amir
- *Until Tomorrow* (2022), as Mr. Mahmoudi
- *Zeros and Ones* (2021), as Mullah
- *Careless Crime* (2021), as Mohsen
- *Free - Liberi* (2021), as Antonio
- *Once Upon a Time in Iran* (2021), series, as Haji Zarrabi
- *At the End of Evin* (2021), Actor
- *I Want To Be Alive* (2021), series, Actor
- *Majority* (2021), as Doctor
- *The Life Ahead* (2020), as Mr. Hamil
- *No Choice* (2020), as Karim
- *Yalda* (2020), as Ayat
- *Bad Habits Die Hard* (2020), as Barbone
- *Timo's Winter* (2020), Actor
- *Cinema Shahre Gheseh* (2020), Actor
- *The Role* (2018), Actor
- *Delay* (2018), Actor
- *Invasion To Interpretation* (2018), Actor
- *The Vertical Line* (2018), series, Actor
- *The Girl's House* (2017), Actor
- *Invasion* (2017), as Babak
- *The Last Prosecco* (2017), as Zio Cyrus
- *Gaze* (2017), Actor
- *A Wedding* (2017), as Mansoor Kazim
- *The Salesman* (2016), as Babak — Fi1m 72, [page](https://film.one/film/the-salesman.md)
- *Death of the Fish* (2016), Actor
- *Il était une fois... Une séparation* (2014), Actor
- *Fish & Cat* (2013), as Babak
- *No Where No Body* (2013), Actor
- *The Past* (2013), as Shahryar — Fi1m 72, [page](https://film.one/film/the-past.md)
- *A Separation* (2011), as Interrogator — Fi1m 93, [page](https://film.one/film/a-separation.md)
- *Green Days* (2009), Editor
- *Ex* (2009), as Collega dottore
- *Quiet Chaos* (2008), as Mario
- *Last Minute Marocco* (2007), as Zin Krisha
- *Nose Iranian Style* (2006), Editor
- *Tickets* (2005), Producer, Editor, First Assistant Director
- *The Island* (2003), Editor
- *Placido Rizzotto* (2000), Editor
- *I Briganti di Zabut* (1998), Editor
- *Marquise* (1997), Editor
- *The mirror man*, Actor
- *Morning is Close*, Actor
- *Muncher*, as Laborer

## Gallery

- ![Babak Karimi](https://film.one/media/person/103085/gallery-dbb5d1121524.jpg) Babak Karimi — Payamzamani 09, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8d/Babak_Karimi_in_backstage_of_I_Hate_the_Dawn_movie.jpg/1280px-Babak_Karimi_in_backstage_of_I_Hate_the_Dawn_movie.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![بابک کریمی در سی‌وهفتمین جشنواره فیلم فجر (2019)](https://film.one/media/person/103085/gallery-955f00b43acd.jpg) بابک کریمی در سی‌وهفتمین جشنواره فیلم فجر (2019) — Taha Saremi, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f2/Babak_Karimi_20190204_01.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Babal Karimi, actor, at 83rd Venice International Film Festival in Venice, Italy for the film Balcanica . (2026)](https://film.one/media/person/103085/gallery-3c3adce43204.jpg) Babal Karimi, actor, at 83rd Venice International Film Festival in Venice, Italy for the film Balcanica . (2026) — LucaFazPhoto, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d8/Babak_Karimi_at_83rd_Venice_International_Film_Festival-1.jpg/1280px-Babak_Karimi_at_83rd_Venice_International_Film_Festival-1.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Babal Karimi, actor, at 83rd Venice International Film Festival in Venice, Italy for the film Balcanica . (2026)](https://film.one/media/person/103085/gallery-1b39040a633b.jpg) Babal Karimi, actor, at 83rd Venice International Film Festival in Venice, Italy for the film Balcanica . (2026) — LucaFazPhoto, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d3/Babak_Karimi_at_83rd_Venice_International_Film_Festival-2.jpg/1280px-Babak_Karimi_at_83rd_Venice_International_Film_Festival-2.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Babak Karimi](https://film.one/media/person/103085/gallery-65e8eb66c46e.jpg) Babak Karimi — Image via TMDB
- ![Babal Karimi, actor, at 83rd Venice International Film Festival in Venice, Italy for the film Balcanica . (2026)](https://film.one/media/person/103085/gallery-acd14cba9992.jpg) Babal Karimi, actor, at 83rd Venice International Film Festival in Venice, Italy for the film Balcanica . (2026) — LucaFazPhoto, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/98/Babak_Karimi_at_83rd_Venice_International_Film_Festival-3.jpg/1280px-Babak_Karimi_at_83rd_Venice_International_Film_Festival-3.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Babal Karimi, actor, at 83rd Venice International Film Festival in Venice, Italy for the film Balcanica . (2026)](https://film.one/media/person/103085/gallery-9bb2d4b66573.jpg) Babal Karimi, actor, at 83rd Venice International Film Festival in Venice, Italy for the film Balcanica . (2026) — LucaFazPhoto, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4f/Babak_Karimi_at_83rd_Venice_International_Film_Festival-4.jpg/1280px-Babak_Karimi_at_83rd_Venice_International_Film_Festival-4.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)

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