About
Golshifteh Farahani
Overview
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 Asgha222
r 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
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2025 | William Tell | Actor | Suna | N/A N/A |
2024 | Reading Lolita in Tehran | Actor | Azar Nafisi | N/A N/A |
2024 | Schirkoa: In Lies We Trust | Actor | 242B (voice) | N/A N/A |
2024 | Sinjar, naissance des fantômes | Actor | Narrator (voix) | N/A N/A |
2024 | Hood Witch | Actor | Nour | 59 Average |
2024 | Can Creativity Save the World? | Actor | Self | N/A N/A |
2024 | Free to Create - Artists in Exile | Actor | Herself | 58 Average |
2023 | Femme, vie, liberté : Une révolution iranienne | Actor | Self | 59 Average |
2023 | Extraction 2 | Actor | Nik Khan | 71 Good |
2022 | Romantique | Actor | Salomé | 58 Average |
2022 | My Father's Dragon | Actor | Dela Elevator (voice) | 61 Fair |
2022 | Coldplay: Music of the Spheres - Live Broadcast from Buenos Aires | Actor | Self | 59 Average |
2022 | Brother and Sister | Actor | Faunia Vuillard | 57 Average |
2021 | Cocorica | Actor | (voice) | N/A N/A |
2021 | Surge | Actor | Nora | 70 Good |
2021 | Invasion | Actor | Aneesha Malik | 71 Good |
2020 | Extraction | Actor | Nik Khan | 72 Good |
2020 | Arab Blues | Actor | Selma | 59 Average |
2019 | Blind Spot | Actor | Elham | 58 Average |
2019 | The Song of Scorpions | Actor | Nooran | 59 Average |
2019 | The Upside | Actor | Maggie | 67 Fair |
2018 | The Night Eats the World | Actor | Sarah | 60 Fair |
2018 | Girls of the Sun | Actor | Bahar | 60 Fair |
2017 | Christmas & Co. | Actor | Amélie | 61 Fair |
2017 | Shelter | Actor | Lina/Mona | 58 Average |
2017 | Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales | Actor | Shansa | 66 Fair |
2016 | Paterson | Actor | Laura | 68 Fair |
2016 | Go Home | Actor | Nada | 58 Average |
2016 | Mehrjui: The Forty-Year Report | Actor | Self | N/A N/A |
2016 | Sophie's Misfortunes | Actor | Madame de Réan | 57 Average |
2016 | Finding Altamira | Actor | Conchita | 58 Average |
2015 | Two Friends | Actor | Mona | 58 Average |
2015 | Keepers of the Covenant: Making 'Exodus: Gods and Kings' | Actor | Self | 59 Average |
2014 | Exodus: Gods and Kings | Actor | Nefertari | 58 Average |
2014 | Eden | Actor | Yasmin | 58 Average |
2014 | Rosewater | Actor | Maryam | 60 Fair |
2014 | My Sweet Pepper Land | Actor | Govend | 60 Fair |
2014 | The Revelations 2014 | Actor | N/A N/A |
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2013 | Just Like a Woman | Actor | Mona | 58 Average |
2013 | The Patience Stone | Actor | The woman | 60 Fair |
2012 | The Rule of Three | Actor | Marie | 59 Average |
2012 | The Revelations 2012 | Actor | N/A N/A |
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2011 | Chicken with Plums | Actor | Irâne | 61 Fair |
2011 | There Be Dragons | Actor | Leila | 57 Average |
2011 | If You Die, I'll Kill You | Actor | Sibe | 59 Average |
2009 | About Elly | Actor | Sepideh | 66 Fair |
2008 | Body of Lies | Actor | Aisha | 65 Fair |
2008 | The Wall | Actor | Setareh | N/A N/A |
2008 | Shirin | Actor | Woman in audience | 59 Average |
2008 | There's Always a Woman in Between | Actor | 59 Average |
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2007 | To Each His Own Cinema | Actor | Woman in Cinema (segment: Where Is My Romeo?) | 60 Fair |
2007 | Where Is My Romeo? | Actor | Woman in audience | N/A N/A |
2007 | Where Is My Romeo? | Actor | N/A N/A |
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2007 | Where is my Romeo | Actor | Elle même | N/A N/A |
2007 | The Music Man | Actor | Hanieh | 59 Average |
2007 | The Fish Fall in Love | Actor | Touka | 59 Average |
2006 | Bab'Aziz | Actor | Nour | 59 Average |
2006 | M for Mother | Actor | Sepideh | 59 Average |
2006 | Half Moon | Actor | Niwemang | 59 Average |
2006 | In the Name of the Father | Actor | Habibe | 58 Average |
2006 | The Disgraced | Actor | Maryam | N/A N/A |
2004 | The Tear of the Cold | Actor | Ronak | N/A N/A |
2003 | Two Angels | Actor | Azar | N/A N/A |
2003 | Somewhere Else | Actor | N/A N/A |
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2003 | Boutique | Actor | Eti | 59 Average |
2002 | Zamaneh | Actor | Zamaneh | 58 Average |
2000 | Seven Acts | Actor | 59 Average |
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1998 | The Pear Tree | Actor | M | 59 Average |
Extraction 3 | Actor | Nik Khan | N/A N/A |
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Hood Witch | Actor | N/A N/A |
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La Vie d'une Femme | Actor | N/A N/A |
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Les Clochettes de Kaboul | Actor | N/A N/A |
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Alpha | Actor | N/A N/A |
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The Thing That Hurts | Actor | N/A N/A |