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Farhad Safinia (Persian: فرهاد صفینیا Farhād Safīnīyā; born 1975) is an Iranian-American screenwriter, film/TV producer and director, best known for Apocalypto, Boss, and The Professor and the Madman. He was credited under the pseudonym P. B. Shemran in the latter.
Farhad Safinia was born in 1975 in Tehran, Iran. He is a writer and producer, known for Apocalypto (2006) , The Professor and the Madman (2019) and Boss (2011) . He has been married to Laura Regan since 2007.
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May 10, 2019 · The Professor and the Madman: Directed by Farhad Safinia. With Mel Gibson, Sean Penn, Eddie Marsan, Natalie Dormer. Professor James Murray begins work compiling words for the first edition of the Oxford English Dictionary in the 19th century, and receives over 10,000 entries from a patient at Broadmoor Criminal Lunatic Asylum, Dr. William Minor.
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Dec 12, 2011 · Farhad Safinia: It also leaves Tom on the floor, right? (Laughs.) I don’t think you’re going to see the same types of mechanics at play in the second season as you did in the first season. We ...
Jun 7, 2012 · Farhad Safinia has done quite well for a guy testing the rocky waters of series television for the first time. With only one other previous gig (co-writing the 2006 feature Apocalypto with star ...
Farhad Safinia was born in Tehran, Iran, in 1975. He left Iran with his family at the age of four to live in Paris, then London. He studied at Charterhouse and then at King's College, Cambridge, where he studied Economics. While at King's he directed and acted in a number of stage productions for the Cambridge University Amateur Dramatic Club ...
Aug 16, 2012 · Farhad Safinia is the creator and executive producer of Boss, a Starz series starring Kelsey Grammer as a ruthless Chicago mayor with a brain disorder. He talks about his inspirations, his creative choices, and his vision for the show.
