Overview
- Iran’s state news agency IRNA reported on November 11 that Ershadi died of cancer.
- Born in Isfahan on March 26, 1947, he moved to Vancouver in the 1980s to work as an architect and had recently returned to Iran.
- He broke through with Kiarostami’s Palme d’Or winner Taste of Cherry and later gained global recognition for The Kite Runner.
- Ershadi amassed more than 90 film and television credits in under three decades, with international roles including Agora, Zero Dark Thirty and Utopia.
- Recent Iranian projects included Lelah and Mahoor, with a posthumous credit for The Hill of Kites, and a rumored role in Terrence Malick’s The Way of the Wind was not confirmed.