Navid Akhavan (Persian: نوید اخوان; born 9 June 1980 in Tehran) is an Iranian-German actor and film director.

After he graduated in 2001 from the "Schauspiel Zentrum", a school for performing arts in Cologne, Germany, he started to work as an actor in film, TV and theatre.

His other leading roles include Mohsen in Salami Aleikum and Jamal in 45 Minutes to Ramallah (both comedies directed by Ali Samadi Ahadi), as well as the drama For a Moment, Freedom (written and directed by Arash T. Riahi), which won 30 awards[2] at international film festivals and was the Austrian entry for the Academy Awards in 2009.

In the Hollywood production Septembers of Shiraz, which can be seen on Netflix, he plays the part of Morteza next to Adrien Brody and Salma Hayek.

He has won awards at international film festivals with the music videos November's Fall and Habs, which he made for the Iranian legendary singer Ebi.