Babak Karimi

Biography

Babak Karimi (Persian: بابک کریمی‎, born 1960) is an Iranian actor. For his role in A Separation, he won the Silver Bear for Best Actor (as part of ensemble) at 61st Berlin International Film Festival in 2011.

Known For

Once Upon a Time in Iran

Haji Zarrabi

A Separation

Interrogator

Death of the Fish

The Salesman

Babak

I Want To Be Alive

The Vertical Line

The Lion Skin

Azaazil

Filmography

Year	Movie	Role
2025	Guardian of the Field	Helma's father
2025	Sunshine Express	The Judge
2024	Nosrat Karimi, Being an Artist in Iran	himself
2023	Fossil	Khosravi (Savaki)
2023	Terrestrial Verses	(voice)
2023	The Strait	Hashem
2023	Vanished	The old man
2022	(Im)perfetti Criminali	Amir
2022	Bucharest
2022	I Am Forough
2022	The Loser Man
2022	Until Tomorrow	Mr. Mahmoudi
2022	Lawless City	Salar
2022	Visiting Time
2022	The Wastetown	Mohandes
2022	Odyssey of Solitude	Victor
2022	The Lion Skin
2021	The World in Shots	Self
2021	At the End of Evin
2021	Careless Crime	Mohsen
2021	Free - Liberi	Antonio
2021	Without Anything	Doctor
2021	Zeros and Ones	Mullah
2020	Yalda	Ayat
2020	The Life Ahead	Mr. Hamil
2020	Cinema Shahre Gheseh
2020	Timo's Winter
2020	Bad Habits Die Hard	Barbone
2020	No Choice	Karim
2018	The Role
2018	Delay
2018	Invasion To Interpretation
2017	A Wedding	Mansoor Kazim
2017	The Last Prosecco	Zio Cyrus
2017	Invasion	Babak
2017	Gaze
2017	The Girl's House
2016	The Salesman	Babak
2016	Death of the Fish
2013	The Past	Shahryar
2013	No Where No Body
2013	Fish & Cat	Babak
2011	A Separation	Interrogator
2009	Ex	Collega dottore
2008	Quiet Chaos	Mario
2007	Last Minute Marocco	Zin Krisha
2005	10 Days with Kiarostami	Self
	The mirror man
	Muncher	Laborer

Year	TV Show	Role
2025	Azaazil
2025	Savushun
2023	Set Me Free
2022	The Lion Skin
2021	I Want To Be Alive
2021	Once Upon a Time in Iran	Haji Zarrabi
2018	The Vertical Line