Acclaimed Iranian actor Homayoun Ershadi, best known internationally for his role in "The Kite Runner" and Abbas Kiarostami's internationally acclaimed "Taste of Cherry", has died at the age of 78.

Iranian actor Homayoun Ershadi succumbed to cancer on November 11. He was 78 years old and had worked with the likes of Abbas Kiarostami and Dariush Mehrjui. The last couple of days have been strange ...

He collaborated with renowned filmmakers Abbas Kiarostami, Marc Forster, Dariush Mehrjui, Kathryn Bigelow, Marc Forster, Alejandro Amenábar, and others. Taste of Cherry (1997) and The Kite Runner ...

The story of how The Kite Runner‘s Homayoun Ershadi got into movies is a bit like those fanciful tales of stars and starlets discovered by casting agents while sitting at the soda counter in Schwab’s ...

Iranian actor Homayoun Ershadi died at 78 on Tuesday after a battle with cancer, state news agency IRNA reported. Ershadi rose to international fame with his breakout role in the late Abbas Kiarostami ...

The story of how The Kite Runner’s Homayoun Ershadi got into movies is a bit like those fanciful tales of stars and starlets discovered by casting agents while sitting at the soda counter in Schwab’s ...

As Homayoun Ershadi tells it, he was an architect in Iran driving down the streets of the capital, Tehran, one day when he pulled up to a red light and heard someone tapping on his car window. He ...

Homayoun Ershadi, the Iranian architect-turned-actor who is best known internationally for his role in Marc Forster’s Afghanistan-set The Kite Runner, has died at the age of 78. Iran’s state news ...