Akbar Abdi ( born 26 August 1960) is an actor and comedian. Akbar Abdi proved his talent through a TV series consisting of children’s programming (“I am late again for school”). Abdi is of Iranian Azerbaijani descent from Ardabil.He started his career in TV series and soon became very popular. He began his career with the children’s TV series “The Traffic Neighborhood”, directed by Dariush Moadebian in 1981.