About Me

DAVOUD RASTGOU

Professional biography

Davoud Rastgou began his acting career by starring in various radio plays in Sweden, the native country of the acknowledged chamber playwright August Strindberg. Gradually he started also to write, direct and produce his own plays for radio and stage. The next step was getting involved in amateur- and touring theatre with epical plays mainly treating the Swedish labor movement. Among the his stage credits; Open Couple (Dario Fo), Ward No. 6 (Chekov), The Father (Strindberg), and The Tears of The Blind (Rene’ de Obadiah) can be mentioned as the most prominent material Davoud has worked with. This phase was followed by studying Dramatic writing for stage and interactive media, Moving image sciences with focus on the East Asian movies, as well practical film making on 16 mm camera at the Swedish film Inst. and Stockholm’s Film school. Meanwhile he also achieved a BA degree in nursing sciences, while studying and working within the field of human behavior, cultural pedagogic, as well mental-and general care with both children and adults.
Later on Davoud started to study Lee Strasberg’s Method with the tutorial of Sam Rumbelow in London, and this has strongly imprinted his approach in a truthful and inspiring approach towards working with the character. The foundational training however took place at The Stockholm's Elementary Theatre School under the direction of Tomaz Neuman (“A hole in my heart” by Lukas Modysson), The Arts Educational Schools and Kensington & Chelsea College in London.
Davoud is born and grown up in Iran but had to go into exile at the age of 19, following the 1979 anti monarch revolution.
Having lived in Sweden since 1989, Davoud has been studying and working with directors such as Suzanne Osten, Reza Parsa, Carl Johan-Seth, Imor Herman, as well Torsten Föllinger and Per Chennon.
Davoud speaks English, Persian, and Swedish and is currently studying Italian. Represented by Ray Moheet at “The Levity Management” in Los Angeles, and “Francis Phillips Artist Management” in London, he has done voice over- and translation work in Oliver Stone’s “Alexander the great”, and played the prosecuted publisher in Ken Loach’s "It's a Free World" which won the “Golden Zenith award” for the Best Screenplay by Paul Laverty at the Venice Film Festival in 2008. Later he appeared as the intruding boarder guard in Arash Riahi's "For A Moment Freedom" chosen by the Austrian Film Institute as the country’s contribution within the “Best Foreign Film” category for the Academy Award competition, among many other numerous awards its has been receiving(Visit wegafilm.com).
Davoud is currently preparing for the Lion’s Gate financed production “In Our Time, which is a contemporary adaptation of the life of Jesus Christ, and has also been considered to play the lead in the upcoming feature “Surfaced” by Daryush Shokof (Seven Servants) in Germany. “Surfaced” is about the struggle for democracy and the freedom of speech in a world where these values are in constant challenges.

Acting

Experience

Accents

Employment History & Experience

DAVOUD RASTGOU
Equity (UK), Teaterforbundet (Sweden)

Represented by:

UK & the Rest of Europe: Francis Phillips agency: derekphillips@talk2.com , Tel. +44(0) 7957 334 328
USA: Ray Moheet: ray@levityent.com , Tel. +1 (310) 417-4888

Sweden(Legal advisor): Magnus Tonell: magnus.tonell@fylgia.se , Tel: +46 8 442 53 00

Spotlight-view pin: 4617-1270-3041
Email: tagin@hotmail.com
Weight: 165 lbs (75 Kg)
Height: 69”(175 cm)
Eyes; Dark brown
Hair: Dark

Music

Experience

Vocal Skills

Dancing

Experience

Dance Skills

Entertainment

Experience

Languages Spoken

Experience & Qualifications

General Experience

FILM
It’s a free world Featured Sixteen Films/UK Ken Loach
Alexander the great Voice over Warner Bros/UK Oliver Stone
Surfaced Lead Shokof film/ Germany Daryush Shokof
“For a moment Featured Wega Film/ Arash Riahi
freedom” Austria
In Our Time Featured Fox 20 Century/US Richard Bailey

THEATER
Ward No 6 (Chekhov) Lead Actor Provocateur/London
Open Couple(Dario Fo) Support RiE/London
The Father (Strindberg) Support Atousa Theatre/Stockholm
Laugh with me (Texts by Lead Stockholms Elemntära Teaterskola
Bergman & de obaldiah)
The tears of the blind Cast Pegasus Theatre
(René de Obaldiah)
The Chairs (Eugene Inesco) Lead Kensington College

SHORTS FILM
Reflections Lead Metropolitan University/London
Broken Lead London college of printing
The calligrapher Lead London film academy

TELEVISION
Ashena TV & Radio Lead Persian local TV(Stockholm)
Commercial

RADIO
Radio plays Lead Local radio Gavle /Sweden
Radio plays Lead Local radio Uppsala/Sweden

Qualifications & Training

TRAINING
Acting: Method, Sam Rumbelow (Three years, London)
Acting :The arts ed.(London, One Term)
Acting Foundation:S.E.T.(Stockholms Elemntära Teaterskola)
Dramatic writing (Carl-Johan Seth; Bålsta-Sweden)
SPECIAL SKILLS
English, Swedish, Persian (Native)
Media- and moving image studies (East-Asian films)
Elderly- general- down syndrome-and intensive care
After school junior-activities
BA Nursing Sciences

Other Information

Relevant Skills

English,Persian/(Farsi), Swedish
West African Dance

Miscellaneous Information

THEATRE/FILM/TELEVISION
DIRECTORS /CASTING DIRECTORS WHO KNOW ME OR KNOW MY WORK


Directors/ Project Role Audition date
Casting directors


Abbas Kiarostami Film according Kiarostami Participant Spring 1996
Beni Culturali/Palermo-Italy

Tusse Lande
Lande production If any(Dir: Fares Fares) Lead 22/12/2010

Dag Thelander Den arabiska koltrasten Lead 23/09/2010
Drama Labbet

Mikael Kyrklund Johan Falk Support 11/01/2011

John Hubbard The devil’s double Support 09/10/2009
Hubbard’s Casting/London Recurring

Dan Hubbard Green Zone Featured 18/01/2008
Hubbard casting/London Recurring

Reza Parsa Acting for real /Workshop Student Spring 2009
Mainland media/Gothenburg

Suzanne Osten Coaching Student Spring 2000
Unga Klara Theatre/Stockholm

Imor Hermann Casting Workshop Student Spring 1999
Imor Hermann Casting/Stockholm

Janis Jaffa The Bill Featured 08/01/2009
The Bill offices/London Recurring
Catherine Fallenius Alladdin Support 05/09/2010
Dr Benway /Stockholm Recurring

Moa Olsson Fallet Lead 27/02/2009
SVT/Göteborg Recurring

Jessica Lamerton Co operate training Lead 19/03/2009
Lessons Learned Ltd/London Recurring

Gain Mc Alinden Imperial War Museum Lead 02/12/2008 Cardboard Citizens Theatre/London Recurring

Per Chennon Casting-& acting workshop Student 1996-2000 Theatre Rascal/Stockholm