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

A Separation

Azaazil

Once Upon a Time in Iran

The Salesman

The Past

Savushun

Zeros and Ones

I Want To Be Alive

All Movies (51)

• Black Rabbit, White Rabbit2025 · as Babak / Antonio
• Sunshine Express2025 · as The Judge
• Guardian of the Field2025 · as Helma's father
• Nosrat Karimi, Being an Artist in Iran2024 · as himself
• Terrestrial Verses2023 · as (voice)
• The Strait2023 · as Hashem
• Fossil2023 · as Khosravi (Savaki)
• Vanished2023 · as The old man
• I Am Forough2022
• The Wastetown2022 · as Mohandes
• Bucharest2022
• Visiting Time2022
• Lawless City2022 · as Salar
• Odyssey of Solitude2022 · as Victor
• The Loser Man2022
• (Im)perfetti Criminali2022 · as Amir
• Until Tomorrow2022 · as Mr. Mahmoudi
• Zeros and Ones2021 · as Mullah
• Careless Crime2021 · as Mohsen
• The World in Shots2021 · as Self
• Free - Liberi2021 · as Antonio
• At the End of Evin2021
• Majority2021 · as Doctor
• The Life Ahead2020 · as Mr. Hamil
• No Choice2020 · as Karim
• Yalda2020 · as Ayat
• Bad Habits Die Hard2020 · as Barbone
• Timo's Winter2020
• Cinema Shahre Gheseh2020
• The Role2018
• Delay2018
• Invasion To Interpretation2018
• The Girl's House2017
• Invasion2017 · as Babak
• The Last Prosecco2017 · as Zio Cyrus
• Gaze2017
• A Wedding2017 · as Mansoor Kazim
• The Salesman2016 · as Babak
• Death of the Fish2016
• Il était une fois... Une séparation2014
• Fish & Cat2013 · as Babak
• No Where No Body2013
• The Past2013 · as Shahryar
• A Separation2011 · as Interrogator
• Ex2009 · as Collega dottore
• Quiet Chaos2008 · as Mario
• Last Minute Marocco2007 · as Zin Krisha
• 10 Days with Kiarostami2005 · as Self
• The mirror man—
• Muncher— · as Laborer
• Balcanica— · as Jalil

All TV Shows (7)

• Savushun2025
• Azaazil2025
• Set Me Free2023
• The Lion Skin2022
• Once Upon a Time in Iran2021 · as Haji Zarrabi
• I Want To Be Alive2021
• The Vertical Line2018