Narges Rashidi

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Narges Rashidi

Narges Rashidi (born March 21, 1980 in Khorramabad , Iran ) is an actress of Iranian descent .

Life

Narges Rashidi was born in Iran, her father was a colonel in the army, she has three older brothers. In 1987 the family fled to Germany via Turkey .

She grew up in Bad Hersfeld and attended the high school of the Obersberg model school there . After graduating from high school, she moved to Berlin and began her three-year acting training at the Etage - School for Performing Arts . During this time she made several independent films, including A2Z by Daryush Shokof , for which she won the 2007 award for best young actress at the New York Independent Film and Video Festival . She also played the role of Isabel in the horror comedy Must Love Death by Andreas Schaap. She achieved her breakthrough with the Hollywood blockbuster Aeon Flux u. a. with Charlize Theron and Jonny Lee Miller . After graduating, she stood in front of the camera for the director Oliver Rihs in Black Sheep , who later also cast her for the female lead in Dating Lancelot . Both films ran successfully at the Hof Film Festival .

In 2007, Narges Rashidi starred in the comic adaptation Speed ​​Racer by the Wachowski siblings for the second time in an American production.

In Thomas Jauch's Schimanski: Shift in the shaft , she appeared in the role of Laura in 2008. Franziska Meyer Price cast her in the Sat.1 Christmas fairy tale as Aysun a. a. next to Fahri Yardim and Max von Thun . This was followed by roles such as in the movie Slave by Jorgo Papavasilou, Mein Prinz - mein König by Ciril Braem and Nos by Soleen Yusef.

With the television film Geisterfahrer , in which Rashidi plays the role of the wife who lives in a socially critical milieu, she stood for the first time for the director Lars Becker in front of the camera, since then he has cast her for other roles. In 2012 she took over the main episode role of Dalida in the night shift - money rules the world and a. next to Sophie Rois, Ben Becker and Fahri Yardim. In 2014, the television film To Die zu Früh u. a. with Fritz Karl and Nicholas Ofczarek .

In 2012, Narges Rashidi took on a leading role on the side of Stefanie Stappenbeck and Max von Pufendorf in the Sat.1 television series On Heart and Kidneys . She also cast Til Schweiger in 2012 for his movie Kokowääh 2 .

In 2013 she made the movie From Happy Sheep by Kadir Sözen . There Rashidi took on the main role of Elmas, a single mother with two children who has to finance her living through prostitution . Other roles include: a. Benno Fürmann , Vedat Erincin and Anna Thalbach can be seen.

2015 she played the lead role of Shide in the movie Under the Shadow of Babak Anvari . The film celebrated its world premiere at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival . The film tells the story of a westward-looking, self-determined woman who fell in despair in Iran in the late 1980s. The British Academy of Film and Television Arts has proposed the film as a nomination for Best Foreign Language Film at the 2017 Oscars . The industry magazine Variety put Rashidi on the list The Best Performances of Sundance 2016 and at the Fantaspoa International Fantastic Film Festival 2016 in Porto Alegre she won the jury award for best actress.

Since 2011 she has lived mainly in Los Angeles , where her husband Christian Straka works as a tennis coach.

Filmography

cinemamovies

TV films and series

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ No desire for "migration background" in Die Welt from March 23, 2015
  2. ↑ The British are sending a horror film from Iran into the race for the overseas Oscar. In: Musikexpress . September 23, 2016, accessed October 31, 2016 .
  3. ↑ Justin Chang : Sundance: 19 Biggest Breakthrough Performances. Variety , January 30, 2016, accessed October 31, 2016 .
  4. ↑ Fantaspoa 2016. Fantaspoa, accessed October 31, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Rashidi, Narges
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Iranian actress
DATE OF BIRTH March 21, 1980
PLACE OF BIRTH Khorramabad , Iran