Aydin aghdashloo biography of albert

Aydin Aghdashloo was born to immigrant parents in 1940 in Rasht, Iran. His father, Mohammad-Beik, was a civil engineer serving as a high-ranking politician in the government of Azerbaijan Democratic Republic in Baku, and his mother, Nahid, was a descendent of the Qajar Dynasty.

The couple had fled to Iran after the Soviet Union’s 1920 invasion of Azerbaijan, where Nahid would give birth to their only son. Mohammad-Beik soon found work as an engineer again, this time for the Iranian government during the era of the Pahlavi dynasty.

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Mohammad-Beik’s sudden death when Aghdashloo was only 11, left him and Nahid in a desperate situation, and they moved to Tehran to live with his maternal relatives.

Aghdashloo’s fascination with painting began at an early age by observing his father’s work on architectural drawings, and listening to his father read him the Shahnameh – the 10th–11th century mythological epic of Persia – was the beginnings of his love for literature.

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