Director

Ali Abbasi

Directing

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Directed movies: 6Directed series: 1All crew credits: 10

TMDB ID: 1574550

IMDb ID: nm4389150

Known for: Directing

Born: January 1, 1981

Age: 45

Place of birth: Tehran, Iran

Gender: Male

Adult content flag: No

Career span: 2008 - 2024

Years active: 17

Average TMDB rating: 6.94

Wikidata: Q28842152

Also known as

علی عباسی • Али Аббаси

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Biography

Ali Abbasi (Persian: علی عباسی, born 1981) is an Iranian-Swedish-Danish filmmaker. He is known for his films "Shelley" (2016), "Border" (2018), "Holy Spider" (2022), and "The Apprentice" (2024). Abbasi also directed the last two episodes of the first season of the series "The Last of Us"". He has received various accolades, including an Un Certain Regard award, four Robert Awards, and a German Film Award, nominations for seven European Film Awards, a Goya Award, and two Guldbagge Awards. Abbasi attended Tehran Polytechnic until 2002, when he emigrated to Sweden to study architecture at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm. After earning his bachelor of arts in 2007, he enrolled at the National Film School of Denmark, earning a degree in 2011 with the short film "M for Markus".