---
name: "Hamid Djavadan"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/hamid-djavadan"
fi1m_id: "hamid-djavadan"
imdb_id: "nm1454306"
tmdb_id: 1178738
wikidata_id: "Q64398236"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "11 November 1953"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-27T08:18:58.145613+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."
---

# Hamid Djavadan

## Identity

Hamid Djavadan

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/hamid-djavadan
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** hamid-djavadan
- **IMDb ID:** nm1454306
- **TMDB ID:** 1178738
- **Wikidata ID:** Q64398236
- **Same entity:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q64398236, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1454306/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1178738

Actor. Born 11 November 1953 in Tehran, Iran.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 11 November 1953, Tehran, Iran
- **Also known as:** Hamid Djavdan, Hamidreza Djavadan, Hamidreza Javdan, Hamidrez Javdan
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q64398236, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1454306/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1178738

## Streaming the US now

- **Netflix:** [*Under the Shadow*](https://film.one/film/under-the-shadow.md) (80)

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

## Biography

Hamid Djavadan is an Iranian-born actor and theatre practitioner. He began his career in 1976 with the Iranian Theatre and the Living Theatre in the United States. He trained in Canada, studying commedia dell'arte, mask work, Balinese martial arts, dance, makeup and singing, and later worked in France at the Cartoucherie de Vincennes and with other companies.

Since 1983 he has directed numerous plays and performed works by authors including Shakespeare, Marlowe, Marivaux, Giraudoux, Lorca and Iranian writers such as Hedayat and Saedi, as well as ancient texts including the Epic of Gilgamesh and the Shahnameh. He has also acted in films including *The Patience Stone* (2012), *As Above, So Below* (2014) and *Under the Shadow* (2016).

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

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Under the Shadow* (2016), Fi1m 80, as Mr. Fakur — [page](https://film.one/film/under-the-shadow.md)

## Complete filmography (4)

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

- *Some Like It Veiled* (2017), as M. Yaghmaian
- *Under the Shadow* (2016), as Mr. Fakur — Fi1m 80, [page](https://film.one/film/under-the-shadow.md)
- *Les passages secrets* (2015), Actor
- *The Patience Stone* (2013), as The man

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