Rosie Malek-Yonan
Rosie Malek - Yonan ( born July 4, 1965 in Tehran, Iran) is an Assyrian actress, author, director, public figure and activist.
Descent
Malek - Yonan is a descendant of one of the oldest and most famous Assyrian Christian families whose roots can be traced back nearly eleven centuries. The Malek family and her tribe came from the village near the city of Urmia Geogtapah in the northwest of Iran.
During the genocide of the Arameans (1914-1918) left Mrs. Malek - Yonans grandparents the land of their ancestors. The Malek - Yonan family fled to Mesopotamia, where her father George was born while her maternal grandmother fled to Russia and her mother Lida brought to the world. Years later, both families returned to Tehran, where her parents met and married.
She has a younger sister named Monica that their projects working closely in many with her.
Artistic career
Malek - Yonan is a pianist, composer and actress. They began in their youth so to compose classical music and continued her musical studies at the Tehran Conservatory of Music later on.
After she received from the University of Cambridge the LC degree in English, she traveled to the United States, where she continued her musical studies with Saul Joseph at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music and at the San Francisco State University ( SFSU ). At the same time, she studied acting with Ray Reinhardt at the American Conservatory Theater and the FSU. A graduate of FSU with two degrees in music, she won in the early 1980s, an invitation to study at the prestigious American Academy of Dramatic Arts.
Even during this study she had her first TV appearance in Dynasty (1983). After studying her acting career blossomed. She had several appearances on television series, such as in California communities (1986 ), Days of Our Lives ( 1987-1996 ), Murder, She Wrote (1989 ), General Hospital ( 1991-2008 ), Babylon 5 (1995 ), Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1996 ), Chicago Hope - Final hope ( 1996-1999), Beverly Hills, 90210 (1998), JAG - the Call of Duty (2002-2003) and the Restless (1999-2003).
Films in which she played among others Mr. Success ( 1984), For Goodness Sake II ( 1996) Anniversary ( 2005) and Rendition (2007).
In 2008, she was "one woman play " presented at Assyrian Exodus in Hartford, Connecticut. The work is based on family diaries, which were written in 1918 during the Great Exodus from Urmia.
Human rights activist
Malek - Yonan is committed to today's Assyrians in the Middle East. It makes particular the genocide of the Arameans 1914-1918 attentive, and the plight of today's Assyrians in the Middle East since the invasion of Iraq (2003) by the United States and the coalition of the willing.
They also produced a 2006 documentary on the subject called My Assyrian Nation on the Edge.
Author
My book, The Crimson Field, a historical and literary work, is based on true events during the genocide of the Aramaeans, in the shadow of the First World War, where 750,000 Assyrians by the Ottoman Turks, Kurds and Persians were massacred.
Her book Seyfo: Genocide, Denial and the Right of Recognition is a compilation of articles and speeches, which were kept in conferences of the European Parliament.
Awards
- In September 2006, she was awarded the Woman of the Year at the 73rd Annual Assyrian Convention in Chicago, Illinois.
- For her numerous contributions as an actress, artist, director, author and activist Malek - Yonan received in March 2008 from the Iranian American Political Action Committee ( IAPAC ) an award for Excellence in the Arts and Entertainment.
- In the Assyrian Universal Alliance 's 26th World Congress in Sydney, Australia, Malek - Yonan was awarded as the 2009 Assyrian Woman of the Year.
Community service
- Malek - Yonan is a founding member of the Assyrian Cultural and Arts Society
- In 2009 she was Ambassador of the Swedish organization Assyrians Without Borders