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
- 2025 · William Tell as Suna
- 2024 · Reading Lolita in Tehran as Azar Nafisi
- 2024 · Schirkoa: In Lies We Trust as 242B (voice)
- 2024 · Sinjar, naissance des fantômes as Narrator (voix)
- 2024 · Hood Witch as Nour
- 2023 · Faut Voir - L'hebdo cinéma as Self - Guest
- 2023 · Extraction 2 as Nik Khan
- 2023 · Beau geste as Self
- 2022 · My Father's Dragon as Dela Elevator (voice)
- 2022 · Coldplay: Music of the Spheres - Live Broadcast from Buenos Aires as Self
- 2022 · Brother and Sister as Faunia Vuillard
- 2021 · Invasion as Aneesha Malik
- 2021 · C ce soir, le débat as Self - Guest
- 2020 · Extraction as Nik Khan
- 2020 · Arab Blues as Selma
- 2018 · The Night Eats the World as Sarah
- 2017 · Christmas & Co. as Amélie
- 2017 · Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales as Shansa
- Future · Extraction 3 as Nik Khan
- 2024 · Can Creativity Save the World? as Self
- 2024 · Free to Create - Artists in Exile as Herself
- 2023 · Femme, vie, liberté : Une révolution iranienne as Self
- 2022 · Romantique as Salomé
- 2021 · Cocorica as (voice)
- 2021 · Surge as Nora
- 2019 · Blind Spot as Elham
- 2019 · The Song of Scorpions as Nooran
- 2019 · The Upside as Maggie
- 2018 · Girls of the Sun as Bahar
- 2017 · Shelter as Lina/Mona
- 2016 · Paterson as Laura
- 2016 · Go Home as Nada
- 2016 · Mehrjui: The Forty-Year Report as Self
- 2016 · Sophie's Misfortunes as Madame de Réan
- 2016 · Finding Altamira as Conchita
- 2015 · Two Friends as Mona
- 2015 · Keepers of the Covenant: Making 'Exodus: Gods and Kings' as Self
- 2014 · Exodus: Gods and Kings as Nefertari
- 2014 · Eden as Yasmin
- 2014 · Rosewater as Maryam
- 2014 · My Sweet Pepper Land as Govend
- 2014 · The Revelations 2014 as
- 2013 · Just Like a Woman as Mona
- 2013 · The Patience Stone as The woman
- 2012 · The Rule of Three as Marie
- 2012 · The Revelations 2012 as
- 2011 · Chicken with Plums as Irâne
- 2011 · There Be Dragons as Leila
- 2011 · If You Die, I'll Kill You as Sibe
- 2009 · About Elly as Sepideh
- 2008 · Body of Lies as Aisha
- 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 · Where is my Romeo as Elle même
- 2007 · The Music Man as Hanieh
- 2007 · The Fish Fall in Love as Touka
- 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
- 2004 · The Tear of the Cold as Ronak
- 2003 · Two Angels as Azar
- 2003 · Somewhere Else as
- 2003 · Boutique as Eti
- 2002 · Zamaneh as Zamaneh
- 2000 · Seven Acts as
- 1998 · The Pear Tree as M
- Future · The Thing That Hurts as
- Future · Alpha as
- Future · La Vie d'une Femme as
- Future · Les Clochettes de Kaboul as