Golshifteh Farahani
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).
Known For
Credits
- 2023 · Extraction 2 as Nik Khan
- 2023 · Beau geste as Self
- 2022 · My Father's Dragon as Dela Elevator (voice)
- 2022 · Brother and Sister as Faunia Vuillard
- 2021 · Surge as Nora
- 2021 · Invasion as Aneesha Malik
- 2020 · Extraction as Nik Khan
- 2020 · Arab Blues as Selma
- 2019 · Blind Spot as Elham
- 2019 · The Song of Scorpions as Nooran
- 2019 · The Upside as Maggie
- 2018 · The Night Eats the World as Sarah
- 2018 · Girls of the Sun as Bahar
- 2017 · Christmas & Co. as Amélie
- 2017 · Shelter as Lina/Mona
- 2017 · Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales as Shansa
- 2016 · Paterson as Laura
- 2016 · Sophie's Misfortunes as Madame de Réan
- 2016 · Finding Altamira as Conchita
- 2015 · Two Friends as Mona
- 2014 · Exodus: Gods and Kings as Nefertari
- 2014 · Eden as Yasmin
- 2014 · Rosewater as Maryam
- 2014 · My Sweet Pepper Land as Govend
- 2013 · Just Like a Woman as Mona
- 2013 · The Patience Stone as The woman
- 2011 · Chicken with Plums as Irâne
- 2011 · There Be Dragons as Leila
- 2009 · About Elly as Sepideh
- 2008 · Body of Lies as Aisha
- Future · Extraction 3 as Nik Khan
- 2024 · Schirkoa: In Lies We Trust as 242B (voice)
- 2024 · Sinjar, naissance des fantômes as Narrator (voix)
- 2024 · Hood Witch as Nour
- 2024 · Can Creativity Save the World? as Herself
- 2024 · Free to Create - Artists in Exile as Herself
- 2023 · Femme, vie, liberté - Une révolution iranienne as Herself
- 2022 · Romantique as Salomé
- 2022 · Coldplay: Music of the Spheres - Live Broadcast from Buenos Aires as Self
- 2021 · Cocorica as (voice)
- 2016 · Go Home as Nada
- 2016 · Mehrjui: The Forty-Year Report as Self
- 2015 · Keepers of the Covenant: Making 'Exodus: Gods and Kings' as Self
- 2014 · The Revelations 2014 as
- 2012 · The Rule of Three as Marie
- 2012 · The Revelations 2012 as
- 2011 · If You Die, I'll Kill You as Sibe
- 2008 · The Wall as Setareh
- 2008 · Shirin as Woman in audience
- 2008 · There's Always a Woman in Between as
- 2007 · To Each His Own Cinema as Woman in Cinema (segment: Where Is My Romeo?)
- 2007 · The Music Man as Hanieh
- 2006 · Bab'Aziz as Nour
- 2006 · M for Mother as Sepideh
- 2006 · Half Moon as Niwemang
- 2006 · In the Name of the Father as Habibe
- 2006 · The Disgraced as Maryam
- 2006 · The Fish Fall in Love as Touka
- 2004 · The Tear of the Cold as Ronak
- 2003 · Somewhere Else as
- 2003 · Boutique as Eti
- Future · Reading Lolita in Tehran as Azar Nafisi
- Future · William Tell as Suna
- 2003 · Two Angels as Azar
- Future · Alpha as
- Future · The Thing That Hurts as
- 2002 · Zamaneh as Zamaneh
- 2000 · Seven Acts as
- 1998 · The Pear Tree as M
- Future · Les Clochettes de Kaboul as