Biography

Reza Kianian (رضا کیانیان)

Director | Actor | Writer | Set Designer

Born: June 19th 1951 in Tehran, Iran

Reza Kianian ( رضا کیانیان ) is an Iranian actor, painter, sculptor, set designer, and screenwriter. He was born in 1951 in Tehran as the second child in a family of nine. His first director was his older brother Davood, thanks to whom Reza received his first role in 1965 in a play titled Az Paa Nayoftadeha. Reza Kianian graduated from the Fine Arts faculty at the University of Tehran in 1976. His most famous film works are The Glass Agency (1998), Killing Mad Dogs (2001) and Maritime Silk Road (2011).