Ramin Karimloo

Ramin Karimloo is one of those performers who makes you genuinely believe in the power of musical theatre — born in Tehran, raised in Canada, and somehow destined for the grandest stages in the world. His run as the Phantom on the West End is the stuff of legend: that voice has a brooding, almost operatic weight to it that very few actors can pull off without it feeling cartoonish, and he absolutely nails it. What I love most, though, is that he's not a one-trick pony — playing Jean Valjean in Les Misérables and landing a Theatre World Award in 2014 for his Broadway work shows real range. He's the kind of artist who quietly earns your respect by just doing the work at an insanely high level, night after night.

Name (English)

Ramin Karimloo

Name (Japanese)

ラミン・カリムルー

Reading

らみん・かりむるー

Born

September 19, 1978 (age 47)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Virgo / Horse

Origin

Tehran, Tehran Province, Iran

Occupation

actor / stage actor / composer / record producer / opera singer

High school

Alexander Mackenzie High School

Awards & achievements

• 2014 Theatre World Award

Motto

Private

• Official sitehttp://www.raminkarimloo.com/
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/raminkarimloo/
• Xhttps://x.com/raminkarimloo
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%A9%E3%83%9F%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%82%AB%E3%83%AA%E3%83%A0%E3%83%AB%E3%83%BC

Tags

• Tehran Province
• actor
• stage actor
• composer

Last updated

2026-06-02

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