‘Blue Whale’ picks new actor

Iranian actor Farhad Ayish is to join Fereydoun Jeyrani’s new home series project ‘Blue Whale’.

According to a media report, Iranian actor Farhad Ayish is to join the cast list of domestic home series project ‘Blue Whale’ directed by Fereydoun Jeyrani.

Other than Farhad Ayish; Mostafa Zamani, Hamid-Reza Azarang, Leila Hatami, Saed Soheili and many other big names such as Hossein Yari, Farhad Aslani, Parivash Nazariyeh, Elham Korda, Majid Mozaffari, Vishka Asayesh, Setareh Pesyani, Azadeh Samadi and Mahour Alvand are to star in the series.

The series is comprised of 30 episodes and the shooting stage for the flick is still going on in Tehran, the report says.

Farhad Ayish,  born in September 18, 1952, Shemiranat, Tehran, has studied directing and photography in the UK and the US.

He directed a number of plays in English and Persian as well as acting in some of them before returning to Iran in 1997, where he continued stage directing and acting.

Ayish has acted in many series including 'The Story of a City' (2000), 'No Words Needed' (2001), 'Brothers-in-Law' (2004), 'Hodhod Bookstore’ (2006), Shams-ol-Emareh’ (2009), 'Let's Not Turn Around' (2009), ‘3-5-2’ (2011), 'All My Family' (2012-2013), 'The Pahlavi Hat' (2012-2013), 'The Colonel's Garden' (2013) and ‘The Recluse’ (2014).

He has also played in movies, such as 'Tehran Nights' (2000), ‘Dear! I’m In No Mood’ (2001), 'Greed' (2002), 'The Lucky Bride' (2002), 'Max' (2003), 'Chocolate' (2003), 'In Love' (2006), 'The Distinguished Suitor ' (2006), ‘Psychosis’ (2007), 'Life with Closed Eyes' (2008), 'Autobahn’ (2008), 'Parinaz' (2010), 'A Simple Romance' (2011), 'Check' (2011), 'Hush! Girls Don't Scream' (2012), and 'Mirror and Candlestick' (2012).

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