Golshifteh Farahani
3.6Acting

Golshifteh Farahani

Jul 10, 1983 - Tehran, Iran

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 played in Paterson (2016) with Adam Driver, in the last Pirates of the Caribbean (2017) and in the French movie Santa & Cie (2017).

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Cast

Media
Movie2008Body of LiesAisha
Movie2023Extraction 2Nik Khan
Movie2022RomantiqueSalomé
Movie2009About EllySepideh
Movie2006Half MoonNiwemang
Movie2007To Each His Own CinemaWoman in Cinema (segment: Where Is My Romeo?)
Movie2011There Be DragonsLeila
Movie2024Reading Lolita in TehranAzar Nafisi
Movie2022Brother and SisterFaunia Vuillard
Movie2011Chicken with PlumsIrâne
Movie2024Can Creativity Save the World?Self
Movie2013Just Like a WomanMona
Movie2013The Patience StoneThe woman
Movie2014Exodus: Gods and KingsNefertari
Movie2022My Father's DragonDela Elevator (voice)
Movie1998The Pear TreeM
Movie2014My Sweet Pepper LandGovend
Movie2023Woman, Life, Freedom: An Iranian RevolutionSelf
Movie2012The Rule of ThreeMarie
Movie2007The Music ManHanieh
Movie2016Mehrjui: The Forty-Year ReportSelf
Movie2025William TellSuna
Movie2021Cocorica(voice)
Movie2017Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No TalesShansa
Movie2022Coldplay: Music of the Spheres - Live Broadcast from Buenos AiresSelf
Movie2016Finding AltamiraConchita
Movie2015Two FriendsMona
Movie2003Two AngelsAzar
Movie2024Free to Create - Artists in ExileHerself
Movie2014RosewaterMaryam
MovieN/AThe Thing That Hurts
Movie2024Hood WitchNour
Movie2003BoutiqueEti
Movie2016Sophie's MisfortunesMadame de Réan
Movie2025AlphaMaman
Movie2016PatersonLaura
MovieN/ALes Clochettes de Kaboul
Movie2024Sinjar, naissance des fantômesNarrator (voix)
Movie2016Go HomeNada
Movie2011If You Die, I'll Kill YouSibe
Movie2006M for MotherSepideh
Movie2014EdenYasmin
Movie2007The Fish Fall in LoveTouka
Movie2006Bab'AzizNour
Movie2019The UpsideMaggie
Movie2017Christmas & Co.Amélie
Movie2019The Song of ScorpionsNooran
Movie2018The Night Eats the WorldSarah
Movie2017ShelterLina/Mona
Movie2018Girls of the SunBahar
Movie2006In the Name of the FatherHabibe
Movie2008There's Always a Woman in Between
Movie2020Arab BluesSelma
Movie2000Seven Acts
Movie2019Blind SpotElham
Movie2020ExtractionNik Khan
Movie2008The WallSetareh
Movie2004The Tear of the ColdRonak
Movie2003Somewhere Else
Movie2002ZamanehZamaneh
Movie2006The DisgracedMaryam
Movie2015Keepers of the Covenant: Making 'Exodus: Gods and Kings'Self
Movie2024Schirkoa: In Lies We Trust242B (voice)
MovieN/ALa Vie d'une Femme
MovieN/AConference of the Birds
Movie2023Coldplay: Music of the Spheres - Live at River PlateSelf
Movie2009Shirin
Movie2007Where Is My Romeo?
TV Show2021InvasionAneesha Malik30
TV Show2021SurgeNora5
TV Show2023Beau gesteSelf2
TV Show2021C ce soir, le débatSelf - Guest1
TV Show2023Faut Voir - L'hebdo cinémaSelf - Guest1

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