Who is Maadi? Biography
Payman Maadi is an American-Iranian actor, director, and screenwriter. His most well-known roles have been in the independent drama films Camp X-Ray and Last Knights, as well as the Iranian Academy Award-winning filmmaker Asghar Farhadi’s A Separation and About Elly. At the 61st Berlin International Film Festival, he was awarded the Silver Bear for Best Actor for his performance in A Separation.
How old is Maadi? Age
Paymay is 54 years old as of 30 June 2024. He was born in 1970 in New York, New York, United States.
Maadi’s Family – Education
Maadi was born to Iranian parents in New York City. His father was an attorney and had made the decision to return to Iran when he was five years old. He earned a degree in metallurgical engineering from the Islamic Azad University, Karaj Branch. Afterwards Maadi made the decision to write screenplays.
Is Maadi married?
He has been married to Faranak Ghavanloo. The couple married in 2008.
Maadi role in Westworld
Maādi plays Elliot, a member of the Delos Board in Season Three of Westworld. Like the rest of the Delos Board, Elliot was fed up with the PR-Nightmare brought on by the Host Uprising. He didn’t think Charlotte Hale was being honest when she decided to replace William, the majority shareholder, with an AI proxy. Brompton and Elliot had found evidence of a leak in Delos; Quality Assurance had found multiple missing host control units, including Maeve Millay’s.
Elliot suggested that these units be located as soon as feasible and terminated. Elliot saw Serac obtain Delos and receive orders to eliminate all control units and search the staff for the hidden host. Against Serac’s orders to delete it all, he followed Charlotte Hale, who was backing up Host-data. Elliot chose to report Charlotte to Serac despite Charlotte’s best efforts to clarify that having backup would be preferable. Charlotte hid his body and snapped his neck as a result. Elliot’s neck gets snapped by Serac after he chooses to tell her about Charlotte.
Maadi’s role in The Night Of
Maadi appeared as Salim Khan, Nasir’s father in the 2016 American eight-part crime drama miniseries The Night Of. A Pakistani-American college student called Nasir “Naz” Khan is arrested in October 2014 after he steals his father’s taxi and spends the night with Andrea. Naz is discovered dead from a knife wound in her bedroom following a night of drug use and sex. Detective Dennis Box questions Naz and charges him with murder. He is sent to Rikers Island, Manhattan Central Booking, and arraignment court to await prosecution.
Naz is represented by defense lawyer Stone, who is offering a lump sum of $50,000. But because the taxi is evidence in the crime, Naz’s father can’t get a job. Stone discovers that he is no longer Naz’s attorney when he pays him a visit in jail. Naz is offered shelter by Freddy, a prisoner with exceptional rights, but he declines. When Naz sees Freddy beating a prisoner, Calvin attacks and gives him a severe beating.
Det. Box makes a map of Naz’s whereabouts and gives it to the prosecutor, Helen Weiss. They find that whereas Andrea did not have amphetamines in his system, Naz did. For Freddy, Naz sneaks cocaine into Rikers. When Trevor Williams is brought in to be questioned, Stone learns that Duane Reade is a crook with a criminal history.
Maadi Camp X-Ray
Maadi played the role of Ali Amir in the 2014 American drama film Camp X-Ray. The movie tells the tale of Ali Amir, a prisoner who was abducted and brought to the Guantanamo Bay detention facility. After volunteering for the IRF, Army Private Amy Cole develops a frigid attitude toward the captives and starts to interact with Corporal “Randy” Ransdell. Ali develops a bond with discipline, and his history of self-harming gets increasingly aggressive. Eight months later, in defiance of SOP and Arabic social conventions, Ransdell lies to Cole. Cole submits a report, which Ransdell rejects. Cole gets moved to the night shift and grows lonely. Ali is going to kill himself one night when he takes a knife that is concealed in his Quran. Cole softens her thoughts toward the prisoner by telling him her name and where she lives.
Some of Maadi’s Acting Credits
Movies
♦ 2023 – Opponent
♦ 2023 – Aporia
♦ 2022 – Leila’s Brothers
♦ 2020 – Walnut Tree
♦ 2020 – Night Shift
♦ 2019 – Suddenly a Tree
♦ 2019 – Just 6.5
♦ 2019 – 6 Underground
♦ 2018 – Pig
♦ 2018 – Bomb: A Love Story
♦ 2016 – 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi
♦ 2016 – Life and a Day
♦ 2016 – Window Horses
♦ 2015 – Last Knights
♦ 2014 – Camp X-Ray
♦ 2014 – Melbourne
♦ 2014 – Tales
♦ 2013 – The Snow on the Pines
TV Shows
♦ 2024 – Viper of Tehran
♦ 2020 – Westworld
♦ 2016 – The Night Of