Golshifteh Farahani

Golshifteh Farahani, born on 10th July 1983, is an Iranian-French actress, who also sings and is a musician. She is the daughter of Behzad Farahani, who is a theater director and actor, and Fahimeh Rahim Nia. She started her acting career at the age of 6 when she was cast in plays directed by her father. Later, she still kept strong ties with the Theater. Her first role came when she was 14 years old for the film “The Pear Tree” (1998), for which she was critically praised and awarded the Best Actress from the International Section of the Fajr Film Festival. This made her an immediate star of the Iranian Cinemas. She did many Iranian films and some of the well – known acclaimed ones were ‘Zamaneh’ (2001), Jayee Digar (2002), Ashk-e Sharma (2004) for which she won many awards in and outside of Iran.

After seeing that her ban couldn’t allow her to attend the premier of her recently released movie ‘Body of Lies’ (2008, starring Leonardo DiCaprio He’s one of the most searched icons in the web for >> Read More... and Russell Crowe “Are you not entertained?” This is his notorious B >> Read More... ), this led to her making her last Iranian Film titled “About Elly” (2009) where her character explores relationships of a middle-class family and, for which yet again she won the Best Director and People’s Choice at Fajr Film Festival by playing a young and shy girl. Farahani became the first Iranian star to act in a major Hollywood Production. She was also supposed to star in the movie ‘Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time’ (2010), but since she was banned from leaving her home country, the role went to the English actress Gemma Arterton.

Currently living in Paris, Farahani is a fluent speaker of the English and French Languages apart from Persian and also holds some knowledge in Arabic.