Bijan Daneshmand

Biography

Bijan Daneshmand is an Iranian actor and painter who left Tehran for England at the age of 10 and, after graduating from King's College London, studied at the Philippe Gaulier School in Paris and the London Centre for Theatre Studies. He produced and starred in 20 Fingers (2004), which took the top digital film prize at the 61st Venice International Film Festival, and wrote and directed A Snake's Tail, which won best international feature at Oklahoma's Bare Bones festival. His screen credits include Shirin Neshat's Women Without Men, the university director in Babak Anvari's Under the Shadow (2016), Kouyami in The Night Manager (2016), and Ali Reza Jamshidpour in The Persian Version (2023), directed by Maryam Keshavarz. He also played a teacher in the short Two & Two, a BAFTA short film nominee in 2012, appeared as Rasoul Shahin in The Diplomat, and has worked in BBC radio drama and video game voice acting.

68years old

Turns 69 on August 16in 307 days

Born August 16, 1958Tehran
Star sign: LeoThe sign runs July 23 to August 22

Movie Career

Films: 5
Career span: 9 years2016 to 2025

Every film, newest first

2025100 Nights of HeroIMDb rating 5.9
2023The Persian VersionIMDb rating 6.2
2019InfidelIMDb rating 5.6
20172048: Nowhere to RunIMDb rating 6.8
2016Under the ShadowIMDb rating 6.8

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Early training
Daneshmand trained at the London Centre for Theatre Studies and the Philippe Gaulier School in Paris after graduating from King's College London.
A change of course
Daneshmand started The Leonard in 1996, a boutique hotel close to Marble Arch in central London. It drew musicians and film professionals, and William Orbit recorded there for projects linked to Madonna, U2 and Pink.
Behind the camera
In 2006, Daneshmand was the writer and director of the avant-garde film A Snake's Tail. The Bare Bones International Film Festival in Oklahoma named it Best International Feature.