[custom_adv] Akbar Abdi (born 26 August 1960) is an actor and comedian. Akbar Abdi first became known through a children TV series ("I am late again for school"). [custom_adv] He began his career in 1981 with the children’s TV series “The Traffic Neighborhood”, directed by Dariush Moadebian. He was dubbed “the man with a thousand faces of Iranian cinema” for the broad array of comedy roles he played during the 1980s. [custom_adv] His main credits include “The Actor”, “Delshodegan” and “The Snowman". He also acted in the film "Ejareh-Nesheenha" (The Tenants).Abdi went through Kidney transplant in June 2016. He has been criticized for anti-Semitic remarks. [custom_adv] The 36th Fajr Film Festival will be held in capital from February 1 to 11. Veteran film dubber Manuchehr Esmaeili and director Mohammad-Ali Najfi are scheduled to be honored with lifetime achievement awards. [custom_adv] He began his acting career with “The Traffic Neighborhood”, a popular children’s TV series directed by Dariush Moadebian in 1981. [custom_adv] He soon shot to fame during that time for playing roles in director/actor Reza Jian’s TV series “Masalabad”. All these TV series and telefilms prepared the ground for him to try his luck at cinema in 1985 with “A Man Who Became a Mouse” by Ahmad Bakhshi. [custom_adv] In 1986, he collaborated with Daruish Mehrjui, a director of homeland’s New Wave Cinema, in “The Tenants”.He also worked in “Mother” and “Delshodegan” with director Ali Hatami, who was known as the Hafez of persian cinema due to the poetic ambiance of his movies. [custom_adv] Due to the wide variety of roles he played in the persian cinema and television, Abdi was dubbed “the man with a thousand faces of persian cinema.”Abdi also worked as a stage director in several plays, including “Mr. Akbar, the Theater Actor”.
