Faramarz Sedighi (Persian: فرامرز صدیقی;born 1949) is an Iranian actor and assistant director.[1][2] He is a theater graduate of the Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Tehran. Sedighi started his professional career in 1969 with acting in "Rostam and Sohrab" theaters. He experienced his cinematic activity in 1972 with his role in the film "Cheshmeh" (Fountain) directed by Arbi Evansian. He became famous with his film "Naked to Noon with Speed" (1972) and his outstanding works include Snake Fang (1989) and "Blade and Silk" (1985).[3][4][5][6]
Fereshteh Jenabi and Faramarz Sedighi in the movie "Naked to Noon with Speed", Sepid va Siah Magazine, July 1974
Biography
Another photo of Sedighi in the movie "Naked to Noon with Speed", Ettela'at Newspaper, 1976
Faramarz Sedighi was born in Saqqez to an ethnic Kurdish family. He lived and studied in Saqqez until he was 17, when he moved to Tehran after being accepted to the University of Tehran in 1967 when he was 18 years old. He starred in several movies before the Iranian revolution in 1979. The film "The Virgin Woman" was one of the famous films in 1973, which starred alongside Morteza Aghili and Mehdi Fakhimzadeh. After the revolution in 1980, he made his first film. The film "Said all three of them", directed by Gholam-Ali Erfan, were his first professional activities after the revolution and played alongside Saeed Amir Soleimani, Jamshid Mashayekhi and Homayoun Asadian. His other films include Snake Fang, "The Last Flight", Love-stricken, and "The Prosecutor". Sedighi started working as a theater teacher before the Iranian revolution, and one of his most famous students was Mehraneh Mahin Torabi[7]
In 1992, Faramarz Sedighi made a screenplay and directed the movie "The Bait"[8] with the presence of Jamshid Hashempour and Reza Rooygari. The last film in which this actor played a role is "Khak va Atash" (Soil and fire), produced in 2010. According to some of his colleagues, Sedighi chose to withdraw in the 1990s, and according to Parviz Parastui, who first published Sedighi's controversial photo,[9][10] he did not even open his home door on the production cast when they followed him for the 2016 film "The Domestic Killer", directed by Masoud Kimiai[11][12][13][14][15][16][17]
According to his relatives explanations, Faramarz Sedighi has developed Alzheimer's disease in recent years.[18][19]
