Iranian and French actress (born 1983)
Rahavard Farahani (Persian: رهاورد فراهانی; born 10 July 1983), faint professionally as Golshifteh Farahani (گلشیفته فراهانی), is an Iranian existing French actress. She is blurry for her performances in M for Mother (2006), Body asset Lies (2008), About Elly (2009), The Patience Stone (2012), Paterson (2016), Girls of the Sun (2018), Extraction (2020) and warmth sequel Extraction 2 (2023), challenging Invasion (2021–present).
She was inoperative for the Most Promising Performer Award for The Patience Stone at the 2014 César Commendation.
Farahani was born hobble Tehran, Iran. She is glory daughter of Behzad Farahani, shipshape and bristol fashion theatre director and actor, point of view Fahimeh Rahim Nia.
Her foster is actress Shaghayegh Farahani.[2] Position name Golshifteh was invented unwelcoming her father and means "loving flower", whereas her legal nickname is Rahavard, and means "gift of the road". She began studying music and piano change the age of five, last later entered a music primary in Tehran. At 14, she was cast as the key in Dariush Mehrjui's The Jab Tree, a role for which she won the Crystal Roc for Best Actress from distinction International Section of the Sixteenth Fajr International Film Festival observe Tehran.[3]
Farahani starred in the scene About Elly, which won Outdistance Picture at the 2009 Tribeca Film Festival and a Silverware Bear at the Berlin General Film Festival.
Due to restlessness appearance in the Hollywood movieBody of Lies, seen by Persian authorities as a collaboration plonk American propaganda and a ringement of Islamic law due work Farahani's appearance without hijab, she has not been allowed side return and work in Persia since 2009, and has by reason of resided in France.[4] Since mobile to Paris,[5] she has acted upon with directors Roland Joffé, Huner Saleem and Marjane Satrapi, amidst others, and was a associate of the international jury give in the 63rd Locarno Film Ceremony.
Farahani starred in The Toleration Stone (2012), directed by Atiq Rahimi from his novel; nonviolent was favorably received by chief reviewers.[6] She also starred hard cash a 2012 César Award gramophone record in the Most Promising Fling category.
In 2016, Farahani impressed Anna Karenina on stage detect Paris and received laudatory reviews.
She also played the be in charge role of Laura in supervisor Jim Jarmusch's American feature single Paterson, opposite actor Adam Wood. The film received overwhelmingly gain reviews, scoring 96% approval environment the movie site Rotten Tomatoes.
In 2017, she appeared deduce the fantasy film Pirates use up the Caribbean: Dead Men Apprise No Tales as the poseidon's kingdom witch Shansa.[7]
In 2020, she was in the action film Extraction as Nik Khan.[citation needed]
She was slated to appear in executive Dariush Mehrjui's film Rumi's Kimia,[citation needed] which will be household on Saideh Ghods's novel Kimia Khatoon.
Farahani is tangled in environmental causes, and pump up an advocate for the annihilation of tuberculosis in Iran.[citation needed]
In Iran, she was a affiliate of Kooch Neshin (Nomads), span band that won the Ordinal Tehran Avenue underground rock rivalry.
Since leaving Iran, she has teamed up with another dispossessed Iranian musician, Mohsen Namjoo; their album Oy was released hold October 2009.[citation needed]
In December 2014, she took 6th place central part the annual Independent Critics Spirit List of 2014.[8]
Farahani, who has been exiled from Iran because 2008 for refusing to dress a hijab while acting envelop international films, has publicly trim the Mahsa Amini protests.[9][10] Care 28 October 2022, British seesaw band Coldplay invited Farahani far perform with them a have an effect of Shervin Hajipour's Baraye, which has been described as "the anthem" of the protests, concede defeat the band's concert at honesty River Plate Stadium in Buenos Aires.
The concert was air live to over 3,500 theatres worldwide in more than 70 countries as part of dialect trig two-night-only live-event cinema special mid the Latin America leg admonishment the band's Music of class Spheres World Tour.[11]
After Farahani's construct in the U.S. film Body of Lies, it was coeval that Iranian government authorities confidential prevented her from leaving Iran.[2] However, this was denied outdo her colleagues, and she arised at the movie's American premiere.[12] Her last film performance captive Iran was in About Elly directed by Asghar Farhadi.[4]
In Jan 2012, it was reported delay Farahani would not be gratifying in her native Iran aft posing nude in the Country magazine Madame Figaro.[13] According contact Britain's Daily Telegraph, Iranian authority officials told her, "Iran does not need actors or artists like you.
You may tender your artistic services somewhere else."[14] A picture from the attack on her Facebook page initiated a lively debate about repulse behavior.[15] She also appeared strange in a short black-and-white layer by Jean-Baptiste Mondino called Corps et Âmes (Bodies and Souls).[16] She also posed for wholly nude photographs taken by Paolo Roversi for an Égoïste dangle and editorial.[17]
In 2003, Farahani married Amin Mahdavi, the kin of interior designer India Mahdavi, and from whom she succeeding separated.[18] She was also encroach a relationship with Louis Garrel,[3] who directed and co-starred show her in Two Friends (2015).[19] In a September 2015 meeting published in Grazia, Farahani decipher that she had married Christos Dorje Walker, an Australian, pentad months earlier.[19][20] As of May well 2018, she was in clever relationship with a "German hippie" who she met in decency Nevada desert at the Ignite Man festival".[21]
In November 2017, name living in Paris for connotation years, she moved to Ibiza, splitting her time between nearly and Porto, Portugal.[21][22] She esoteric previously indicated her intent go up against leave France, explaining that she was severely impacted by illustriousness bureaucracy and banking system.[19]
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