Hamide Kheyrabadi
Acting
Biography
Hamide Kheyrabadi (حمیده خیر آبادی) born 21 December 1924, Rasht died 19 April 2010, Tehran, was a celebrated Iranian film and theatre actress. She played in more than 200 feature films and in over 20 television series. Inside Iran, she is affectionately referred to as Nadereh and Mother of the Iranian Cinema. Hamide Kheyrabadi was born in Rasht, the capital of the Gilan Province, Iran. Whereas she married at the very young age of 13, she continued with her studies and completed her secondary-school education. In the middle of 1950s she divorce.
Born: December 22, 1924
Place of Birth: Rasht, Iran
Known For
A World Full of Hope
Green House
Everything is better in green.
Redhat and Cousin
Kolah Ghermezi is a naughty school boy. His playfulness gets him expelled from school and he fails to find a job. He sees a program on TV which attracts his attention and he goes to Tehran. With the help of Pesarkhaleh, he goes to the TV program he had seen and finds the reporter. He likes the reporter so much that he decides to help him overcome the obstacles he faces for getting married, but instead causes troubles.
Mother
The film progresses along two distinct but interwoven series of events. The first series involves young members of a family who have gathered round their old mother and revive their common childhood memories. the second line focuses on the old woman's preparations for her last journey and her joyous cooperation in arranging for the ceremonies that are to be observed after her death.
The Fateful Day
As Abdollah prepares to get married to his long-time love, he hears calls for help during his wedding and leaves the ceremony for an adventure to find the truth.
Reza, the Motorcyclist
Reza Motori, who has feigned madness, escapes from an asylum and robs a factory, with the aid of a friend. Afterwards, a young writer, who looks exactly like Reza, visits the asylum in order to write about inmates. There he is mistaken for Reza and detained. Meanwhile, Reza assumes the identity of the writer. Reza falls in love with the writer's fiancée and decides to give up the money he has stolen from the factory, but his friends prevent him from doing so.
The Lady
Maryam Banoo, a depressed wealthy woman, finds out that her husband is having an affair with another woman. Her husband leaves the house after Maryam Banoo understands the truth. Maryam feels lonely and, by accident, she finds a poor worker and his pregnant wife who are homeless and need a warm place and some treatments for the wife. Maryam Banoo helps them by inviting them to her house and entertaining them with several kinds of food and drinks. The husband and wife invite some other members of their family to Banoo's house and they start to steal Banoo's expensive furniture and bothering her with their bad behavior. Finally Maryam's husband comes back from the trip and throws the poor people out. He admits that he is sorry about his affair but Maryam doesn't accept it and moves to an unknown place to live in peace. Her husband goes after her.
To Each His Own Cinema
Commissioned to mark the 60th anniversary of the Cannes Film Festival, "To Each His Own Cinema" brought together 33 of the world's pre-eminent filmmakers to produce short pieces exploring the multifarious facets of cinema and their perspective on the state of their chosen artform in the early 21st century.
Companion
"Aatefeh," who has been deceived by "Mohsen," tries to persuade him to marry her. However, "Mohsen" runs away from her and heads to the north. Determined to achieve her goal, "Aatefeh" follows him north. The father of "Aatefeh," a wealthy man, assigns a young man named "Ali" to find his daughter and bring her back to the family.
Shirin
A hundred and fourteen famous Iranian theater and cinema actresses and a French star: mute spectators at a theatrical representation of Khosrow and Shirin, a Persian poem from the twelfth century, put on stage by Kiarostami. The development of the text -- long a favorite in Persia and the Middle East -- remains invisible to the viewer of the film, the whole story is told by the faces of the women watching the show.
Filmography
as (segment: Where Is My Romeo?)
as Aziz
as Narges' Mother
as Belgheis
as Mrs. Shamsi
as Tooba
as Esmal's Mother
as Enayat's Mother
as Sakineh
as Ansiyeh
as Mah Banou
as Mehdi's Mother
as Nasrin's mother
as Aaliyeh
as Mehdi's Mother
as Aghdas
as Mostafa's Mother
as Mehdi's Mother
as Mansour & Hojjat’s Mother
as Mohsen's Mother
as Head of the Institute's Wife
as Talayeh Khanoom
as Ms. Anis
as Fakhr-ol-Molook
as Safdar's Mother
as Zahra
as Aziz
as Nadereh
as Gol-Ara (Ramin's Mother)
as Hasan's Mother
as Mirkhalili's Wife
as Ms. Alborz
as Afsaneh
as Akram
as Pakizeh Tabiat Wife's
as Sahar's Aunt
as Parviz' Mother
as Rich Man's Wife
as The Girl's Mother
as Goli's Mother
as Badri
as Lady in waiting