# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/massoud-farassati
# Generated: 2026-08-13T18:37:00.014Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/massoud-farassati"
name: "Massoud Farassati"
slug: "massoud-farassati"
description: "Massoud Farassati is an Iranian film critic. He used to regularly appear in the Iranian State Television programme Haft, hosted by Fereydoun Jeyrani and later by Behrouz Afkhami. He has published anthologies of writings about such classical filmmakers as Charlie Chaplin, John Ford, Alfred Hitchcock, Federico Fellini, Akira Kurosawa and Ingmar Bergman in Persian."
tagline: "Iranian film critic"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Masoud_Ferasati_at_the_meeting_with_Ali_Khamenei_01.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1951-04-09"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           48.91
  momentum:             12.21709006928407
  historical:           5.346046666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     40
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm4457762/"
    handle:    "nm4457762"
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massoud_Farasati"
    title: "Massoud Farasati"
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    title: "مسعود فراستي"
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    title: "مسعود فراستی"
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    title: "مسعود فراستی"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikiquote"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/4336383"
    title: "Massoud Farassati"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump