BOBBY
NADERI

Bobby Naderi is an actor born in Tehran, Iran, on 19 November 1984. His work spans independent cinema, studio action films and television drama.

In The Taqwacores (2010), Naderi played Yusef, an engineering student who moves into a house shared by Muslim punks. The independent film was presented at Sundance and follows the tensions and conversations that arise in the household.

He later played Iraj in Babak Anvari’s Under the Shadow (2016), a horror film set during the Iran–Iraq War. The role forms part of a small family story in which the pressures outside the home are inseparable from the fear within it.

Naderi worked with director David Ayer on Bright and later appeared as Agent Matt Wiley in The Beekeeper (2024). The action thriller places his character in an investigation connected to a former operative’s campaign of revenge.

On television he played detective Matt Bowen in The Better Sister. Looking across these credits shows an actor working in stories of very different scale, from an intimate horror film to a procedural mystery and an action production.