Salar Zarza

Salar Zarza was born on Sep 23, 1981 in Iran. Salar Zarza's big-screen debut came with Caged directed by Stephan Brenninkmeijer in 2011, strarring Laura's lover at exposition hall (uncredited).

Salar Zarza is a Kurdish-Iranian actor, filmmaker, writer and martial artist, raised and based in the Netherlands who has appeared in Caged, in addition to other films. Zarza also starred in several television series, TV shows and commercials. He has a background in multiple martial arts disciplines. From age 15, after years of training experiences in Judo, Karate and Tae Kwon Do styles Zarza continued trained under his father's close family friend Iraj, who was a famous fighter pilot in the army who became bodyguard of the last Persian King. Zarza had begun combining martial arts styles and techniques to perform his athletic kicking skills and maintain a muscular physique for high demanding action roles and stunts in motion pictures. Zarza is primarily focused on his craft as an actor besides to being an award winning filmmaker.In 2008, Salar signed up to work on the new British action film "Ten Dead Men" as an actor with UK based production company Modern Life. In 2010 Salar played a role in the anticipated feature film "Caged" from director Stephan Brennninkmeijer, a dutch thriller, set to be released in dutch theaters late 2011 before getting released on DVD and Blu-ray in several countries and on Video on Demand.In 2012, Salar begun an independent production company and created the subdivision 'True Spirit Productions' dedicated to smaller corporate jobs where Zarza directed a variety of music videos and corporate films. Under the label 'True Spirit Entertainment', solely focused on writing and producing, the production & post-production of independent motion picture films Zarza is most active with a prime focus on the drama, action and thriller genres. It didn't take long before 'True Spirit Entertainment', with a focus on international films for US, Europe, Australia and foreign markets, Zarza got involved in it's first high production values international action/thriller feature, largely set across the Benelux countries, in addition to working on worldwide feature film productions for a variety of his well known clients including from Hollywood.In July 2012, Mr. Zarza shot the action feature "Vigilance" for TCF film, working in the camera department as the film's RED steady-cam operator. Salar had turned down a part in the film due to scheduling conflicts because he already was signed to another feature film production which was set in Amman, Jordan for an American-Jordanian film director. One day after completing the principle photography of the action feature film set in Amsterdam, Zarza flew to Amman, Jordan to start filming on his next feature film production. Consequently in August 2012, Salar worked closely with filmmaker, director, writer & music composer Dr. Mohydeen Quandour on their first collaboration, an anticipated romantic comedy feature film, entitled "A Facebook Romance,". Zarza was hired as the cameraman and steady-cam operator filming on RED MX digital cinema camera. The adventurous feature film production was shot in 19 days across different Jordanian sets, primarily set around the beautiful backdrop of Amman. Zarza was also cast in the principle character role of rich Jordanian businessman Waleed Rami and co-starred with the famous Lebanese star and catwalk model Lamitta Frangieh in addition to Mohamed Karim, "The Voice" presenter in Egypt who co-starred with Nicolas Cage in "A Score to Settle" and Bruce Willis in "A Day to Die". In December 2012, "A Facebook Romance" premiered in the 10th Monaco International Film Festival, one of the premiere European film award festivals, as a nominee for an Angel Award. Salar was awarded with an honorable Angel Film Award, in the category 'Best Cast Ensamble' in Monaco for "A Facebook Romance". In addition the romantic comedy feature "A Facebook Romance" won 6 awards.In March 2014, Zarza met with Mohammed (imdb name Michel) Qissi, better known as the legendary Thai fighter and main antagonist "Tong Po" from "Kickboxer", "Blood Sport" & "Lionheart" (all starring Jean-Claude van Damme), opposing JCVD. After their meeting, Salar was cast as "Jaafar", the fierce right hand of main character Bara (played by Mohammed Qissi) in "BARA" a.k.a. An Eye for an Eye. A six week shoot for the epic action adventure feature film, shot in the sands of the Sahara in Morocco, "BARA" is a large scope feature film production. It was screened theatrically in major Moroccan cities and extremely well received by audiences. Zarza is working with Mr. Qissi on multiple other international action films, including with Jean-Claude van Damme.In 2018, Zarza was the cinematographer on feature film "Islamophobia", starring several Hollywood stars including but not limited to Hollywood actor Chris Mulky from "Rambo: First Blood" starring as Levi. Salar played one of the lead roles in that feature as Ali, an undercover CIA agent. The film premiered in the Cannes Film Festical.In 2019, Zarza started working on international action/thriller feature film "Out for Vengeance". Mr. Zarza is the executive producer, director, writer as well as playing it's lead role character Alan Barnas (a special forces Sergeant who comes back in town to find himself get targeted by powerful rival ling drug cartels across the Benelux). "Out for Vengeance" tells a fast paced revenge story which revolves around honor. Developed as an large scope international action packed feature, Salar Zarza stars alongside many Hollywood star names in strong supporting roles, in which Ron Smoorenburg co-stars as Coach Gabriel, (Alan's former trainer) in addition to Hollywood stars Costas Mandylor, Silvio Simac, Richard Burgi, Christopher Atkins, Barbara Nedeljakova, Rupert Wynne-James. On top of Dutch celebrities model/actress Kim Feenstra, Fajah Laurens, the 4 times Olympic gold winner Inge de Bruijn and in the female lead role Dorien Rose Duinker playing Vanessa Smith (Playmate/Angelina Jolie stand-in). Michael Dudikoff, star of the "American Ninja" Hollywood action movies from Cannon Films, co-directed some scenes alongside Zarza in Amsterdam on "Out for Vengeance". The international action/thriller project features over 15 worldwide based actors, a very strong and diverse cast with their respective fan bases of which many known from Hollywood independent cinema in addition to box-office studio films who co-starred alongside different A-list Hollywood stars. The exciting, faced paced independent feature film production, as of Augusts 2022 is in it's final stages of principle photography to schedule filming the final block in September. This star-studded action feature film will get a end 2022 premiere in Pathe Tuschinski Amsterdam, followed up by a worldwide release across different territories in all worldwide markets.Action/thriller "Out for Vengeance" is also the first feature film production in Dutch history in which more than five different Hollywood actors flew in to play a role in one film, on top of multiple famous Dutch stars and celebrities showcasing their surprising roles in this much anticipated action thriller. With an already expressed interest from Netflix to having received great interest from well established LA & Hollywood based distributors to pick up the rights for worldwide distribution already, this popular genre Hollywood production levels action thriller picture will see it's international release, hopefully late 2022.