Iranian actor, film director and scriptwriter.
Ali Mosaffa was born in Tehran (Iran). He graduated from ali mosaFfa the University of Tehran in Civil Engineering and began his career as an actor in 1991 in Habib Kavosh's film OMID.
The same year, he received the prize for Best Actor at the Fajr Film Festival for his role in PARI, a film by Darius Mehrjui. In 1996 he met his future wife, the Iranian actress Leila Hatami, during the shooting of LEILA, also directed by Darius Mehrjui.
Ali Mosaffa then went on to direct his first short features INCUBUS, THE NEIGHBOR as well as the documentary THE DECEIT OF POESY. He then went on to direct his first feature film in 2005 with PORTRAIT OF A LADY FAR AWAY, starring Leila Hatami and Homayoun Ershadi. It was awarded with the Sutherland Trophy at the BFI London Film Festival. His second film, THE LAST STEP starring Leila Hatami won the FIPRESCI prize and the Crystal Globe for Best Actress at the
Karlovy Vary Film Festival.

FILMOGRAPHY
Actor
2013 THE PAST by Asghar Farhadi
2012 THE LAST STEP by Ali Mosaffa
2011 ASEMAN E MAHBOOB by Darius Mehrjui
2010 THERE ARE THINGS YOU DON'T KNOW
by Fardin Saheb-Zamani
2006 WHO KILLED AMIR? by Mehdi Karampoor
2003 SOMEWHERE ELSE by Mehdi Karampoor
2001 MIX by Darius Mehrjui
2000 DOKTHAR DA'I GOM SHODE by Darius Mehrjui
PARTY by Saman Moghadam
1998 LEILA by Darius Mehrjui
1996 BORJ EL MINOO by Ebrahim Hatamikia
1995 PARI by Darius Mehrjui
1992 SARA by Esmail Soltanian
1991 OMID by Habib Kavosh

Director and scriptwriter
2012 THE LAST STEP
2005 PORTRAIT OF A LADY FAR AWAY (written with Safi Yazdanian)
1999 THE DECEIT OF POESY (documentary)