Daniel Zolghadri

Acting

Daniel Zolghadri

Born 1999-02-20 · Southern California, California, USA

Daniel Zolghadri is an American actor, known for Eighth Grade, Tales from the Loop, and Funny Pages.

Acting credits

Ready Player One poster
7.6

When the creator of a popular video game system dies, a virtual contest is created to compete for his fortune.

Ready Player One

2018

If I Had Legs I'd Kick You poster
6.3

With her life crashing down around her, Linda attempts to navigate her child's mysterious illness, her absent husband, a missing person, and an increasingly hostile relationship with her therapist.

If I Had Legs I'd Kick You

2025

Eighth Grade poster
7.1

Thirteen-year-old Kayla endures the tidal wave of contemporary suburban adolescence as she makes her way through the last week of middle school — the end of her thus far disastrous eighth grade year — before she begins high school.

Eighth Grade

2018

Fahrenheit 451 poster
5.5

In an oppressive future, a 'fireman' whose duty is to destroy all books begins to question his task.

Fahrenheit 451

2018

Y2K poster
5.1

Two high school nobodies make the decision to crash the last major celebration before the new millennium on New Year's Eve 1999. The night becomes even crazier than they could have ever dreamed when the clock strikes midnight.

Y2K

2024

Hot Water poster
3.0

A Lebanese-American teenager gets expelled from school and is forced to drive cross-country with his neurotic mother. What begins as punishment becomes the longest, funniest, and most unexpectedly meaningful trip of his life.

Hot Water

2026

Alex Strangelove poster
6.6

Alex Truelove is on a quest to lose his virginity, an event eagerly awaited by his patient girlfriend and cheered on with welcome advice by his rowdy friends. But Alex, a super gregarious dude, is oddly unmotivated. A magical house party throws Alex into the presence of Elliot, a hunky college guy, who pegs Alex as gay and flirts hard. Alex is taken aback but after a series of setbacks on the girlfriend front he takes the plunge and learns some interesting new facts about himself.

Alex Strangelove

2018

Lurker poster
6.4

When a twenty-something retail clerk encounters a rising pop star, he takes the opportunity to edge his way into the in-crowd. But as the line between friend and fan blurs beyond recognition, access and proximity become a matter of life and death.

Lurker

2025

No artwork available
NR

An orphaned millionaire Johnathan Baby who dedicates his life and fortune to finding the ghosts of his parents with the help of a skeptical radiation scientist.

The Temple

Funny Pages poster
5.7

A teenage cartoonist rejects the comforts of his suburban life in a misguided quest for soul.

Funny Pages

2022

Magazine poster
NR

A young intern faces intoxicating power dynamics at a prestigious New York City literary magazine.

Magazine

2026

The Arrow at Rest at Every Instant of its Flight poster
NR

Three seemingly disconnected stories unfold across New York City.

The Arrow at Rest at Every Instant of its Flight

2026

The Truck poster
NR

Against the simmering anxieties of post-Roe America, a Chinese-American teenager and her boyfriend attempt to buy the morning-after pill in a small town where reproductive rights are contested and quietly policed.

The Truck

2024

Low Tide poster
6.1

In the long days of summer in a beach town on the New Jersey shore, high schooler Alan and his friends Red and Smitty break into vacation homes to steal valuables, funding dates at the boardwalk and lunches at the burger stand. When Alan and his younger brother Peter find a bag of gold coins, they try to hide them from the others — but Red, suspicious and violently unpredictable, seems willing to do anything to get the money.

Low Tide

2019

Fennel poster
NR

During a tense lunch, a father and son struggle to connect. Fennel is a quiet, intimate look at the emotional distance between parent and child and the words left unsaid.

Fennel

2026

The Loner poster
3.8

Haunted by memories as a child soldier in 1980s Iran, Behrouz finds himself in bustling, neon-soaked Los Angeles, working to become a real estate agent and live a simple life with his girlfriend Oksana. But Behrouz’s attempts at a normal life become increasingly difficult as his opium addiction and gambling habit rear their ugly heads, and he struggles to leave behind his past with the Iranian mafia. Soon Behrouz and Oksana find themselves caught between the feuding heads of the Iranian and Russian mobs.

The Loner

2016

Snorkeling poster
NR

Snorkeling is an authentic coming-of-age film about love, addiction, and mental health. All of us - especially young people - fear loneliness and isolation. Teenagers Michael and Jameson explore these haunting subjects together. As their romance blossoms, a new hallucinogenic street drug called Snorkeling concocts a fantasy where the user feels invincible. They can interact with the world without fear or inhibition - a true out-of-body experience. When taking a drug this powerful, what are the possibilities - and the dangers? Through his trippy, colorful recreation of the euphoria and tragedy of drug dependency, director Emil Nava takes us on a unique journey of adolescent self-discovery.

Snorkeling

2023

The Audition Tape poster
NR

Two brothers must awkwardly audition for the same role in an upcoming movie.

The Audition Tape

2023

Henry Gets a Shot poster
NR

Crashing on the couch of a family friend, a young man acclimates to life in New York City.

Henry Gets a Shot

2024

Hidden poster
5.5

After the death of his half-brother, a young boy struggles with his guilt and new position in the family.

Hidden

2015

No artwork available
NR

Plot TBA. Said to be exclusively comprised of only three speaking parts.

Ancient History

No artwork available
NR

Set toward the end of the 1990s, four twenty-somethings navigate romance and life in a small New England college town.

Last Days of Basic Cable