Golshifteh Farahani

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Golschifteh Farahani at the César 2014

Golshifteh Farahani ; Persian گلشیفته فراهانی, also Golschifteh (born July 10, 1983 in Tehran ), is an Iranian actress . She has lived in France since 2009 and has won several film awards, including the Crystal Simurgh at the Fajr International Film Festival in Tehran.

Life

Golschifteh Farahani is the daughter of actor and theater director Behzad Farahani and sister of actress Shaghayegh Farahani. She started playing the piano and learning music at the age of five. At twelve she attended a music school in Tehran, at 14 she cast the lead role in Dariush Mehrjui's film Derakht-e Golābī , English The Pear Tree , for which she won the Crystal Simurgh of the 16th International Fajr Film Festival as best actress.

Career

In the 2000s she starred in several award-winning films. For the film Boutique she received the award for best actress at the 26th Festival of the Three Continents in Nantes . She starred several times in films by well-known Iranian directors, for example in Dariush Mehrjui's controversial film Santouri , Bahman Ghobadis Crescent (winner of the Golden Shell at the Festival Internacional de Cine de San Sebastián 2006), Rasoul Mollagholipours Mim Mesle Madar , English M for Mother (Iran’s contribution for the Oscar in the category “Best Foreign Language Film” ) and Asghar Farhadis Alles über Elly (won the Silver Bear for best director at the Berlinale in 2009 and the award for best film at the New York Tribeca Festival ).

Golshifteh Farahani is committed to environmental protection and was also ambassador to Iran for the fight against tuberculosis .

Shortly after participating in the American film The Man Who Never Lived , she was reportedly prevented from leaving the country by Iranian authorities; however, this was denied by her work colleagues, and a short time later she appeared at the premiere of the film in the United States. In an interview with Spiegel Online , however, she described her difficulties with the Iranian authorities because of the film; they are said to have been put under massive pressure by them for seven months. You are said to have accused the production of portraying the Iranian government too negatively. When she was later supposed to audition for the role of Princess Tamina in the video game adaptation Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time , she was prevented from leaving the country, after which she was summoned to a Revolutionary Court and accused of being a security threat To be Iran; she was also accused of collaborating with the CIA. When she was finally allowed to leave the country, she missed the plane to London and thus the casting, and the role was finally cast with the British Gemma Arterton .

Because of these experiences she left Iran and lives in Paris .

For the film Chicken with Plums , the first real film by the comic artist and Iranian exile Marjane Satrapi , she stood in front of the camera in the studios in Potsdam-Babelsberg .

Farahani is also active musically; in Iran she was part of an underground rock band called Kooch Neshin 'Nomads' , and after leaving Iran she worked with Mohsen Namjoo , another Iranian exile and musician, and supported him on the album Oy , on the Farahani Plays the piano and occasionally sings.

In 2017 she was accepted into the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences , which awards the Oscars every year.

Filmography (selection)

Web links

Commons : Golshifteh Farahani  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Iran Report of the Heinrich Böll Foundation - No. 9 - September 2008
  2. ↑ Colleague denies Iran actress faced travel ban: report ( Memento from October 10, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ a b My pain is my engine Interview on Spiegel Online, January 6, 2012
  4. ↑ "Class of 2017". Accessed June 30, 2017. http://www.app.oscars.org/class2017/ .
personal data
SURNAME Farahani, Golshifteh
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Farahani, Golschifteh; گلشیفته فراهانی (Persian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Iranian-French actress and pianist
DATE OF BIRTH July 10, 1983
PLACE OF BIRTH Tehran , Iran