Pezh Maan

Born in Plymouth, Pezh Maan has dual British and Iranian citizenship. He was the first born of 3 children to Monir, a Chartered Accountant and Hassan Alinia, an ex-Naval Officer and Entrepreneur. Pezh began his love affair with drama after watching a performance of Shakespeare's Henry IV pt 1 at the Theatre Royal in Plymouth and subsequently acted in a number of school productions and became an avid cinephile spurred on by chance meetings as a teenager with Telly Savalas in London and John Travolta in Paris. Pezh took up a place at Cambridge University to study Medicine eventually specializing as a Psychiatrist and practicing for a number of years as a doctor in London. During his adult life he developed his passion for the performing Arts and Cinema with his involvement in a series of low-budget short films as actor as well as formal training in Meisner and Method Acting and enrolled on the Masters program in filmmaking at the London Film School. His switch to the full-time dedicati