Golshifteh Farahani
Birthday: 1983-07-10
Place of Birth: Tehran, Iran
Biography: 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 starred in films such as Exodus: Gods and Kings (2014) directed by Ridley Scott, Paterson (2016) directed by Jim jarmush, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales (2017), Extraction (2020), and Alpha (2025) directed by Palme d'Or winning filmmaker Julia Ducournau.
Movies
Body of Lies
The CIA’s hunt is on for the mastermind of a wave of terrorist attacks. Roger Ferris is the agency’s...
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Extraction 2
Back from the brink of death, highly skilled commando Tyler Rake takes on another dangerous mission:...
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Romantique
After disappearing overnight, a man reappears and discovers that he is the father of a little girl. ...
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About Elly
The mysterious disappearance of a kindergarten teacher during a picnic in the north of Iran is follo...
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Half Moon
Mamo, an old and legendary Kurdish musician living in Iran, plans to give one final concert in Iraqi...
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To Each His Own Cinema
Commissioned to mark the 60th anniversary of the Cannes Film Festival, "To Each His Own Cinema" brou...
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There Be Dragons
Arising out of the horror of the Spanish Civil War, a candidate for canonization is investigated by ...
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Reading Lolita in Tehran
As Islamic morality squads stage arbitrary raids in Tehran and as fundamentalists seize hold of the ...
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Brother and Sister
Alice and Louis are brother and sister. She is an actress; he was a teacher and poet. For more than ...
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Chicken with Plums
Since his beloved violin was broken, Nasser-Ali Khan, one of the most renowned musicians of his day,...
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Can Creativity Save the World?
The final part of the Creativity Trilogy explores existential threats our world is facing. An inspir...
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Just Like a Woman
Two women get on the highway heading to Santa Fe. Marilyn dreams of winning a contest held by a famo...
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The Patience Stone
In a war-ridden country, a woman watches over her husband, comatose from a bullet in the neck and ab...
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Exodus: Gods and Kings
The defiant leader Moses rises up against the Egyptian Pharaoh Ramses, setting 400,000 slaves on a m...
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My Father's Dragon
Struggling to cope after a move to the city with his mother, Elmer runs away in search of Wild Islan...
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The Pear Tree
A man contemplates life and compares it to a pear tree in his yard which stops producing fruit....
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My Sweet Pepper Land
Baran, a war hero, becomes sheriff of the capital and refuses to bow down to a tribal chief....
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Woman, Life, Freedom: An Iranian Revolution
On September 16, 2022, in Teheran, the murder by police of the young Mahsa Amini, arrested for "wear...
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The Rule of Three
Louis takes care of Vincent but expects that Marie manage it alone. The three of them spend an after...
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The Music Man
Ali is son of a well-off family who plays the santoor (an Iranian instrument) and has earned some re...
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Mehrjui: The Forty-Year Report
Mehrjui: The Forty-Year Report dives into the artistic world of Iranian director Dariush Mehrjui. Th...
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William Tell
The narrative unfolds in the 14th Century, when the European nations vie for supremacy within the Ho...
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Cocorica
Frida, a young hen, wants to be a singer. However, her village is directed by strong rules: only chi...
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Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales
Thrust into an all-new adventure, a down-on-his-luck Capt. Jack Sparrow feels the winds of ill-fortu...
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Coldplay: Music of the Spheres - Live Broadcast from Buenos Aires
Experience the stunning spectacle of Coldplay’s record-breaking Music Of The Spheres world tour at y...
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Finding Altamira
The story of nine-year old Maria and her father Marcelino who, in 1879, found the first pre-historic...
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Two Friends
Mona, a prisoner on work release, meets Clément, a shy actor. Desperate to impress Mona, Clément rec...
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Two Angels
In a small religious town in Iran, Ali After a fight with his father, escapes to the desert where he...
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Free to Create - Artists in Exile
Artists forced to leave their country talk about the ambivalence of exile. With Iranian actress Gols...
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Rosewater
In 2009, Iranian Canadian journalist Maziar Bahari was covering Iran's volatile elections for Newswe...
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The Thing That Hurts
The patients of a recently deceased American psychotherapist remember her....
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Hood Witch
A woman earns a living by smuggling exotic animals and illegal goods, developing a mobile app that l...
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Boutique
A clothing store worker (Jahan) meets a poor girl named Eti. Jahan tries to help the girl and solve ...
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Sophie's Misfortunes
Sophie is far from being the model little girl one would like her to be, unlike her friends Camille ...
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Alpha
Alpha, a troubled 13-year-old lives with her single mom. Their world collapses the day she returns f...
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Paterson
A week in the life of Paterson, a poet bus driver, and his wife Laura, a very creative artist, who l...
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Les Clochettes de Kaboul
Afghanistan, summer 2021. As the Taliban gradually seize control of the country, Leila, a young wido...
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Go Home
Nada is going home. Or at least she wants to. When she comes back to Lebanon, she realizes she's a f...
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If You Die, I'll Kill You
In Paris' cosmopolitan and colorful 10th arrondissement, Philippe, who's fresh out of prison, crosse...
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M for Mother
What appears to be a grand love story turns sour when parents-to-be discover that their unborn child...
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Eden
Paul, a teenager in the underground scene of early-nineties Paris, forms a DJ collective with his fr...
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The Fish Fall in Love
After 22 years, Aziz decides to return to his hometown, to sell some family possessions, including t...
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Bab'Aziz
The story of a blind dervish named Bab'Aziz and his spirited granddaughter, Ishtar. Together they wa...
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The Upside
Phillip is a wealthy quadriplegic who needs a caretaker to help him with his day-to-day routine in h...
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Christmas & Co.
Christmas is on its way and with it disaster. The 92,000 responsible for manufacturing children's to...
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The Song of Scorpions
While Nooran, learns the ancient art of healing with music from her mother, Aadam a camel trader lis...
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The Night Eats the World
After waking up to find himself all alone in an apartment where a massive party was being held the n...
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Shelter
Naomi, an Israeli Mossad agent, is sent to Germany to protect Mona, a Lebanese informant recovering ...
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Girls of the Sun
Bahar, the commanding officer of the Daughters of the Sun, a battalion made up entirely of Kurdish f...
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In the Name of the Father
This is about a father and his daughter who has been injured from the mines from Iran-Iraq war....
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There's Always a Woman in Between
A couple who had a romantic marriage and life now are about to get divorce but meanwhile many people...
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Arab Blues
Selma, a psychoanalyst, deals with a cast of colorful new patients after returning home to Tunisia t...
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Blind Spot
Dominick Brassan has the power to turn invisible, but rarely uses it. Instead he has kept it a shame...
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Extraction
A hardened gun-for-hire's latest mission becomes a soul-searching race to survive when he's sent int...
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The Wall
For the young and fearless Setareh, there are no walls or boundaries she cannot overcome. Determined...
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The Tear of the Cold
During the Iran-Iraq war,a soldier and a Kurdish girl come to a new understanding of the notion of a...
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Somewhere Else
Five characters are stuck on an island, from where they hope to escape to "somewhere else", the utop...
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Zamaneh
Zamane and Saeid are neighbors. Despite their own arrangements to get married, their families are ag...
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The Disgraced
Mariam is a young girl growing up in the Islamic Republic of Iran. Although she is quite innocent, h...
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Keepers of the Covenant: Making 'Exodus: Gods and Kings'
An in-depth documentary on the making of Ridley Scott's "Exodus: Gods and Kings," featuring intervie...
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Schirkoa: In Lies We Trust
In a sophisticated near perfect society, citizens live with paper bags on heads to dissolve differen...
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La Vie d'une Femme
The life of Gabrielle, head of surgery in Paris, married, childless...
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Conference of the Birds
The film centers on a flock of birds who are the sole survivors of a man-made natural disaster. Lead...
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Coldplay: Music of the Spheres - Live at River Plate
Filmed during Coldplay’s sold out, ten night run at Buenos Aires’ River Plate stadium, this spectacu...
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Shirin
A hundred and fourteen famous Iranian theater and cinema actresses and a French star: mute spectator...
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Oh, What Happy Days!
On the eve of losing her family estate, actress Homa is blackmailed by a government agent with a com...
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Dog my Cats!
Jules's life has taken a sad turn after his parents' divorce, but his routine is disrupted by the un...
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Behrouz: A Legend on Screen
Behrouz Vossoughi, legendary Iranian actor, leaves his country just before the revolution in 1978, a...
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