Hamideh Kheirabadi

Hamideh Kheirabadi
حمیده خیرآبادی
Born Hamideh Kheirābādi
December 21, 1924
Rasht, Iran
Died April 19, 2010 (aged 85)
Tehran, Iran
Occupation Theatre and film actress
Spouse(s) Ali Ghasemi
Children Soraya Ghasemi

Hamideh Kheirābādi (Persian: حمیده خیرآبادی) (born 21 December 1924, Rasht – died 19 April 2010, Tehran) was a celebrated Iranian film and theatre actress. She played in more than 200[1] feature films and in over 20 television series. Inside Iran, she is affectionately referred to as Nādereh[2] and Mother of the Iranian Cinema.[3][4][5]

Hamideh Kheirābādi 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 the 1950s she divorced from her husband and lived thereafter with her daughter, Sorayyā Ghāsemi (born 1940). Kheirābādi's acting career began in 1947 with theatre.

Hamideh Kheirābādi worked with a large number of celebrated Iranian film directors, such as Ali Hatami, Dariush Mehrjoui, Masud Kimiai, Mohsen Makhmalbaf, Sirus Alvand, Sirus Moghaddam and Tahmineh Milani. She was thrice nominated for the Crystal Simorgh Prize. During the second Iranian Celebration of Screen Actors, held on 5 January 2008 at Tehran's Arikeh-ye Iranian Hall, Kheirābādi was honoured with a Lifetime Achievement Award.[6]

Kheirabadi with her daughter, Soraya and her granddaughter, Parmida

It has been reported that[7] plans had been made that after six years of absence from acting,Kheirābādi would appear before camera on 23 April 2010, playing the role of herself in a series named The Land of the People (Zamin-e Ensān-hā), directed by Abolhasan Dāvoudi.

Hamideh Kheirābādi died at her home in Tehran on Monday night, 19 April 2010, at the age of 86. The cause for her death has been given as brain stroke.[8] Ms Kheirābādi was buried in Section 66 of Behesht-e Zahra Cemetery in Tehran, on Tuesday 20 April 2010.[9]

Filmography

A very extensive filmography of Hamideh Kheirābādi can be found on the Gilaki Wikipedia.[10] At present a less extensive filmography of Hamideh Kheirābādi is available at the Persian Wikipedia.[11] What follows is only a selected filmography.

Feature films

Television series


See also

References

  1. ↑ According to a this report by Fars News Agency, in Persian, dated Monday 19 April 2010, this number should be 150.
  2. ↑ Nādereh appears to have been the artistic name of Ms Kheirābādi before the Iranian Revolution of 1979. Aside from this, and importantly, Nādereh is the feminine form of the noun nāder, meaning rare, exceptional, inimitable, exquisite and precious.
  3. ↑ Hamideh Kheirābādi, the valued actress of cinema died yesterday night, in Persian, Official Site of The House of Cinema (Khāneh-ye Cinamā), 20 April 2010: .
  4. ↑ A mother with an unforgettable smile, in Persian, Mehr News Agency, 20 April 2010: .
  5. ↑ Hamideh Kheirābādi, the "Nādereh" of the Iranian cinema and television, died, in Persian, Radio Farda, 20 April 2010: .
  6. ↑ Mother of Iranian cinema Hamideh Kheirabadi dies at 86, Tehran Times, Wednesday 21 April 2010: .
  7. ↑ The sadness as intensive as the ingenious smiles of the mother of the Iranian cinema, in Persian, Khabar Online, Tuesday 20 April 2010: .
  8. ↑ The sadness as intensive as the ingenious smiles of the mother of the Iranian cinema, ibid.
  9. ↑ Section 66 is not The Artists' Section of Behesht-e Zahra Cemetery where normally artists are buried. According the Tehran Times (Wednesday, 21 April 2010), this was in conformity with Kheirabadi's own wish to be buried next to the graves of her departed family members. See: Mother of Iranian cinema Hamideh Kheirabadi dies at 86, Tehran Times, ibid.
  10. ↑ Hamideh Kheirābādi, Gilaki Wikipedia.
  11. ↑ Hamideh Kheirābādi, Persian Wikipedia.

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