Navid Navid

Biography

Navid Akhavan, known as Navid Navid, is an Iranian-German actor and film director born on June 9, 1980, in Tehran, Iran. Due to the Iran–Iraq War, he fled with his family at age four and later immigrated to Germany in 1985. After graduating from the "Schauspiel Zentrum" in Cologne, he began his acting career, performing on stage since age eight and gaining a leading role in Elmar Fischer's Fremder Freund in 2003.