Golshifteh Farahani

Acting · Born 1983-07-10 in Tehran, Iran

Biography

Golshifteh Farahani (گلشیفته فراهانی) was born on 10th July 1983 and is an international Iranian actress. She has dual Iranian and French nationality. Golshifteh Farahani started her acting career in theatre at the age of 6. Since then she has played in more than 40 films, many of which have been screened or awarded at international festivals. Amongst her famous Iranian films are Bahman Ghobadi's Half Moon, Dariush Mehrjui's Santoori , Rasool Mollagholipour's M for Mother and Asghar Farhadi's About Elly. Starring in Ridley Scotts Body of Lies (2008), alongside Leonardo Di Caprio and Russel Crowe, Golshifteh Farahani became the first Iranian to act in a major Hollywood production. She has also starred in films such as Exodus: Gods and Kings (2014) directed by Ridley Scott, Paterson (2016)…

Filmography

• Body of Lies as Aisha
• Extraction 2 as Nik Khan
• Romantique as Salomé
• About Elly as Sepideh
• Half Moon as Niwemang
• To Each His Own Cinema as Woman in Cinema (segment: Where Is My Romeo?)
• There Be Dragons as Leila
• Reading Lolita in Tehran as Azar Nafisi
• Brother and Sister as Faunia Vuillard
• Chicken with Plums as Irâne