Golshifteh Farahani
Golshifteh Farahani (* July 10, 1983 in Tehran, persian گلشیفته فراهانی, also Golschifteh ) is a living in France since 2009, Iranian actress. She won several movie awards, including the Crystal Simurgh of the International Fajr Film Festival in Tehran.
Life
Golschifteh Farahani is the daughter of actor and theater director Behzad Farahani and sister of actress Schaghayegh Farahani. At the age of five, she began to play piano and learn music. At 12, she attended a music school in Tehran, with 14 they occupied the main role in Dariush Mehrjui film Derakht -e Golabi ( The Pear Tree ), for which she won the Crystal Simurgh of the 16th International Fajr Film Festival for Best Actress.
Career
In the 2000s, she played several times with in award-winning films. For the film Boutique she won the best actress award at the 26th Festival of the three Continents in Nantes. She played several times in films by renowned Iranian directors, as in Dariush Mehrjui controversial film Santouri, Bahman Ghobadi's Half Moon ( winner of the Golden Shell at the Festival San Sebastian 2006), Rasoul Mollagholipours Mim Mesle Madar ( M for Mother, Iran's contribution to the category "Best Foreign Language Film " Oscar ) and Asghar Farhadi's about Elly ( won the Silver Bear for Best Director at the Berlin Film Festival 2009 and the award for best film at New York's Tribeca Festival).
Golshifteh Farahani is committed to environmental protection and was further in Iran Ambassador for the fight against tuberculosis.
Shortly after her involvement in the U.S. film Body of Lies, she was reportedly prevented by Iranian authorities from leaving the country; This, however, was denied by her colleagues, and a short time later she appeared at the premiere of the film in the United States. In an interview with Spiegel Online, however, she described her difficulties with the Iranian authorities on the basis of this film; so it should have been set for seven months through this massive pressure. They should have been accused of production, is to represent negative the Iranian government. When they for the role of Princess Tamina in the video game adaptation Prince of Persia later should audition for The Sands of Time, she was prevented from leaving, then they would have been charged before a revolutionary court where you have accused her of a danger to to be the security of Iran and they have accused of cooperating with the CIA. After then but was still allowed to leave the country, they missed the plane to London, and thus the casting, and their role was eventually filled by the British Gemma Arterton.
Because of these experiences, she decided to leave Iran; Today she lives in Paris.
For the film, Chicken with Plums, the first live-action film of the comic book artist and also exiled Iranian Marjane Satrapi, she stood in the studios in Potsdam- Babelsberg in front of the camera.
Farahani is also musically active; in Iran it was part of an underground rock band called Kooch Neshin ( " Nomads" ), and after she left Iran, she worked with Mohsen Namjoo, another Iranian exiles and musicians together and supported him on the album Oy, on the Farahani plays the piano and sings occasionally.