Hootan Shakiba

Shakiba won the Crystal Simorgh for Best Actor and his second Hafez Award for portraying Abdolhamid Rigi in When the Moon Was Full (2019).

In 2013, He starred in Voice of Silence and Sensitive Floor, both were also screened at the 32nd Fajr Film Festival and earned awards and nominations.

In 2014–2015 and in 2018 he did the voice acting for Dibi and The Next Door characters in the popular Red Hat television series directed by Iraj Tahmasb.

He also starred in Kamal Tabrizi's first web series Fool (2014–2015) as Mehrdad alongside Mohsen Tanabandeh, Hanieh Tavassoli, Mehran Ahmadi, Majid Salehi, Ahmad Mehranfar, Shabnam Moghaddami and Behnam Tashakor.

In 2016, Shakiba Starred in Bachelors television series directed by Soroush Sehat and gained a lot of recognition and became well known among the audience.

He received critical acclaim for his performance as Habib and earned his first Hafez Award and a Jam-e-Jam Television Festival nomination.

After his critically acclaimed role in When the Moon Was Full, Shakiba starred in Soheil Beiraghi's Pulp (2020) as Milad Bodaghi, an LGBT-related character who became friends with an old lady (played by Fatemeh Motamed Arya).

He played as Amir Sasan, an alcoholic wedding singer who is abusive to his wife in Ida Panahandeh's TiTi (2021).

Shakiba collaborated with Narges Abyar for the second time in Pinto (2021), where he plays a gambler who is a (wife) beater with a short temper.

Shakiba later earned an Iran's Film Critics and Writers Association award nomination for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in Pinto.

Shakiba earned an Iranian Short Film Association nomination for Best Performance for his role in Bonus as a Teacher.

On 31 July 2021, it was announced that Shakiba will star in Omid Shams feature debut romance drama Conjugal Visit (2022) alongside Parinaz Izadyar.

However, the child has a sheltered and kind personality so if he feels intimacy and friendship with someone, he will talk to him in a calm and pleading tone.

On 17 February 2023, the first episode of Shahram Shah Hosseini's romance web series Set Me Free was released on Filimo, starring Shakiba as Hatef alongside Mohsen Tanabandeh.