Reza Rahadian Gallery

Reza Rahadian Matulessy (born 5 March 1987) better known as Reza Rahadian is an Indonesian actor who rose to prominence following his role in Perempuan Berkalung Sorban. Born in Jakarta, he took up acting while in senior high school and made his feature film debut in 2004. Since receiving his first Citra Award in 2009, he has acted in over a dozen films, ranging from comedies and romances to dramas and biopics.

Rahadian was born in Jakarta on 5 March 1987 to an Iranian father and a "movie-loving, French-speaking, art-loving" mother. He took up acting while still in senior high school, performing in several stage productions. In a 2012 interview he cited actors Slamet Rahardjo and Deddy Mizwar as his influence in acting, noting that neither was typecast.

In 2004 he was crowned Top Guest, an award for models, by the Indonesian variety magazine Aneka, although he was never a professional model. Instead, he considered modelling as a way to help him become an actor. Through the coverage he received from his modelling career, Rahadian was cast in several sinetron (Indonesian soap operas), including Culunnya Pacarku and Idola. He made his film debut in 2007, with the horror-comedy Film Horor; the following year he acted in another horror film, Pulau Hantu 2.

Rahadian made his first critically acclaimed film in 2009, when he acted in Hanung Bramantyo's Perempuan Berkalung Sorban; he had become weary of acting in horror films. Although he had initially auditioned for a minor character, Bramantyo chose Rahadian for a larger role – of Samsuddin, the main character Anissa (Revalina S. Temat)'s abusive, polygamous husband. He acted in another four films that year, including three comedies.