Biography

Ebrahim Abadi (Persian: ابراهیم‌ آبادی; also Romanized as Ebrāhim Ābādi; 15 August 1934 – 31 October 2019) was an Iranian stage and film actor. Abadi played in famous movies including Mokhtarnameh, On Tiptoes, Dar Chashm-e Baad and Grand Cinema. Ebrahimabadi was first seen in the Bagh-e-Tabriz alley on August 15, 1934. He went to school in Tabriz until his fifth grade and finished high school in Tehran. During high school, he was interested in the art of performing until he finally tried in the theatre classes of fine arts of the country, which was composed by foreign educators in schools, and after passing a year under the supervision of Davidson and Kotkim B, he went to the art school and under the supervision of professors such as Ali Asghar Garmori and Hoshang Saring To continue his studies in Prague, Czechoslovakia, he graduated from the Academy of Dramatic Arts five years later. He also works in professional theatres. After 14 years, he returned to Iran from Czechoslovakia and was employed in the theatre and show house programs and worked in some provincial centers (7 years in Urmia, 1 year in Gorgan and 8 years in Tabriz). Abadi has taken up classes and theatre groups in all of those cities and has created nearly 60 plays by the efforts of the emerging groups. Abadi retired from the theatre in 1993.

He was a supervisor of the theatre festival in Tehran and the cities several times. He was one of the organizers of the Martyrs Mehreb Festival in Tabriz for four periods and was a intensive theatre course for the participants. He was also a member of the Central Council of the Iranian Cinema Actors Association in the Cinema House and four courses of the Iranian Film Reviewer in the Celebration of the House of Cinema.