Javad Hashemi Pourasl | |
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![]() Hashemi in 2009
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Born |
Tehran, Iran |
January 17, 1966
Occupation | Actor, Director, Composer |
Years active | 1980–present |
Spouse(s) | Zahra Hashemi (m. 1991) |
Children | Mohsen (b. 1995) Fatemeh Sadat (b. 2000) |
Seyed Javad Hashemi Pourasl (Persian: سیدجواد هاشمی پوراصل, born 17 January 1966) is an Iranian actor, film director, writer and composer.
He was born on 17 January 1966 in Tehranpars, Tehran. He was graduated from Tehran University college of arts in 1994. He was married in 1991. He has one son, Mohsen (born 12 January 1995) and Fatemeh Sadat (born 19 April 2000).
Hashemi began professional acting on theater in 1980. His first feature theatre role was Haj Ebrahim-Haj Ashoora(1980, Kamaloddin Ghorab) in Tehran City Theatre. After Haj Theatre, he continued roles in theatre and working for Ministry of Education. He began acting in cinema with Parvaz Dar Shab (1987, Rasoul Mollagholipour). He attended in his more than 43 movies so far and long and short series. He mostly roled as a Basiji in movies that he acted.
He supported Mir-Hossein Mousavi in 2009 presidential election. During 2009-10 election protests, he directed and acted in a political theatre named Farzande Edalat with presence of a number of politicians such as Mohammad Khatami, former President. He read a poetry for Khatami and said that "I learned that the desires of the child against the dictatorship, I tell in theatre".