Sassan Saffari

Sassan Saffari is half Persian and half English, Scottish, Irish, French, Norwegian, Finnish, Swedish, & Danish. A lot of halves. He was born and raised in Boston, MA. His Grandmother, Edith Conklin Weaver; a painter, poet, and lover of art, had a profound impact on his life, work, and growth as an artist. His college years were spent honing his craft in San Diego at his alma mater, MiraCosta College Theatre. Throughout his time in the program, he was fortunate enough to win scholarships and awards through the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival and had the opportunity of performing in over thirty productions in San Diego; professionally and at his college. Through the Kennedy Center, he studied at Steppenwolf West with Laurie Metcalf, Jeff Perry, French Stewart, David Razowsky, Kim Rubinstein, Alexandra Billings, and countless others whom guided him to be the versatile actor he is today. He was also invited to The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts as a guest artist and award winner.

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While much of the above data are retrieved directly from outside APIs and other such sources, data from American Film Institute (AFI) and British Film Institute (BFI) were manually entered the old fashioned way into a MySQL database. Re BFI I took the following liberties:

  • I added "runners up" to Top 10 lists, treating them as ties where applicable and numbering them accordingly at the bottom of each list.
  • Regarding those polls wherein "franchise" movies were submitted as one project until BFI's policy changed to regard them separately, I treated them as ties and renumbered the affected lists accordingly (e.g. the Godfather films).

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