Hootan Shakiba

The film screened for the first time at the 38th Fajr Film Festival.

At the 39th Fajr Film Festival Shakiba participated with two films TiTi and Pinto, both alongside Elnaz Shakerdoost.

He played as Amir Sasan, an alcoholic wedding singer who is abusive to his wife in Ida Panahandeh's TiTi (2021).

Shakiba collaborated with Narges Abyar for the second time in Pinto (2021), where he plays a gambler who is a (wife) beater with a short temper.

Hootan Shakiba (born 14 June 1984) is an Iranian actor.

Shakiba was born on 14 June 1984, in Tehran to a Kurdish family and grew up in Sanandaj.

He received a Bachelor's degree in theater directing from Soore University and a Master's degree in acting from University of Arts.

Shakiba started acting at age 18 with working in theatre and short films.

He played his first major and professional work in 2008 with Tune Your Violins play which earned him his first acting award at the 11th Iran International University Theater Festival.

He played 21 plays between 2008–2012 and became known on theater industry.

He made his feature debut with a supporting role in Kaveh Sajjadi Hosseini's Night Out as Tomaj.

In 2009 he played in Marat/Sade play and earned a Honorary Diploma at the 12th Iran International University Theater Festival.

In 2012 he acted in Mad Toy play and received the first place acting prize at the 19th International Children and Youth Theater Festival.

In 2013, He starred in Voice of Silence and Sensitive Floor, both were also screened at the 32nd Fajr Film Festival and earned awards and nominations.

He received the Best Theater Actor of the Year Award at the 11th Theater Actor Celebration for his acting in Timequake (2013).

He played 17 plays between 2013–2018 and gained attention.

In 2014–2015 and in 2018 he did the voice acting for Dibi and The Next Door characters in the popular Red Hat television series directed by Iraj Tahmasb.

He also starred in Kamal Tabrizi's first web series Fool (2014–2015) as Mehrdad alongside Mohsen Tanabandeh, Hanieh Tavassoli, Mehran Ahmadi, Majid Salehi, Ahmad Mehranfar, Shabnam Moghaddami and Behnam Tashakor.

The film was screened at the 32nd Fajr Film Festival on experimental section then it released in February 2015 in Iran theatrically, two years after the film premiere.

He earned a Best Theater Actor of the Year nomination at the 13th Theater Actor Celebration for his performance in The Hole (2015).

He is best known for his role as Habib Naghavi in Bachelors (2016–2019) which earned him a Hafez Award.

In 2016, Shakiba Starred in Bachelors television series directed by Soroush Sehat and gained a lot of recognition and became well known among the audience.

He received critical acclaim for his performance as Habib and earned his first Hafez Award and a Jam-e-Jam Television Festival nomination.

In 2017 he played in Oliver Twist play as Fagin and received critical acclaim for his performance as well as a nomination for Best Actor at the 36th Fajr Theater Festival and a Special Acting Prize award at the 15th Theater Actor Celebration.

for his performance in the play 100% (2018) he received critical acclaim and a Honorary Diploma at the 36th Fajr Theater Festival.

In 2018 he earned his second Hafez Award nomination for Bachelors second season.

In 2018, Shakiba played as Monsieur Thénardier in the big production tragedy musical play Les Miserables, alongside Navid Mohammadzadeh, Parinaz Izadyar, Sahar Dolatshahi and Parsa Pirouzfar.

Shakiba and Dolatshahi's acting as Monsieur Thénardier and Madame Thénardier was praised by the critics and both received Hafez Award nominations at the first Hafez Theater Award.

The play was a commercial success.

Shakiba won the Crystal Simorgh for Best Actor for portraying Abdolhamid Rigi in When the Moon Was Full (2019).

In 2019, He starred as Abdolhamid Rigi the elder brother of the detained leader of Jundallah, Abdolmalek Rigi in Narges Abyar's acclaimed When the Moon Was Full, the film screened for the first time at the 37th Fajr Film Festival.

Shakiba received critical acclaimed and was highly praised by both audience and critics.

he earned various accolades including Crystal Simorgh for Best Actor and Hafez Award for Best Actor, in addition to nominations for an Iran's Film Critics and Writers Association award and an Iran Cinema Celebration award.

Shakiba and his co-star Shakerdoost both won Crystal Simorgh for their performances making them the second couple to do so.

(Hedieh Tehrani and Mohammad Reza Foroutan were the first ones.)

The film also won the Crystal Simorgh for Best Film and Best Director and received critical acclaim and was a commercial success.

he played in the play Oslo (2019) directed by Yousef Bapiri on Iranshahr Theater stage.

The third season of Bachelors aird under the name of Masters from 8 November to 7 December for 28 episodes and became one of the most watched series of the year.

After his critically acclaimed role in When the Moon Was Full, Shakiba starred in Soheil Beiraghi's Pulp (2020) as Milad Bodaghi, an LGBT-related character who became friends with an old lady (played by Fatemeh Motamed Arya).

In February 2020, He played in Atila Pesyani's play Qajari's Coffee alongside Navid Mohammadzadeh.