Phoenix Raei
Phoenix Raei is an Australian actor, director, and producer. He was a main cast member of the two-season TV soap The Heights. He starred in the 2021 Netflix series Clickbait, and had a pivotal role in the 2023 Netflix series The Night Agent.
Early life and education
Phoenix Raei was born in Shiraz, Iran on 28 October 1990. He emigrated with his family to Australia and settled in Perth. He showed interest in acting at an early age, but felt pressured to pursue higher education, so he studied law.Career
Raei first appeared in a short film in 2014. He chose the stage name Nima Raei and used it for Seven Storeys Down, a 2017 film that he wrote and directed. Raei's television debut was in the Australian soccer show Mustangs FC, He played his first major role in the 2017 film Australia Day, and wrote and directed a miniseries, Murder. He thereafter relocated to Melbourne. In 2018, Raei appeared in the Australian political thriller series Romper Stomper, based on the 1992 Russell Crowe film of the same name. In 2019 he featured in the Australian prison-drama series Wentworth.He was a main cast member of the Perth two-season TV soap The Heights. In 2020, he appeared in Stateless, a series about detention centres in Australia created by Cate Blanchett.
Raei also co-starred in the 2021 Netflix miniseries Clickbait alongside Zoe Kazan, Betty Gabriel, and Adrian Grenier. In Clickbait, Raei plays the role of Roshan Amiri, a missing persons detective investigating a highly publicised murder.
He had a pivotal role in the Netflix series The Night Agent. He appeared in Black Site, an American action-thriller film released in 2022, and he is working on a self-authored, directed, and produced film, Schnook.
In 2023, he took part in season three of the Apple TV+ thriller series Tehran. In 2024, Raei was named in the cast for series 3 of ''The Twelve.''