Biography: Madjid Niroumand is an Iranian educational administrator, and former child actor. He is best known for playing the lead role of Amiro in Amir Naderi's The Runner (1984), which is regarded as one of the seminal films in modern Iranian cinema. The director discovered him after a six-month search for a suitable lead, having spotted Niroumand in a newspaper photograph of four youngsters who won a race.