Golshifteh Farahani
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Golshifteh Farahani

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Biography

Golshifteh Farahani (گلشیفته فراهانی) was born on 10th July 1983 and is an international Iranian actress. 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.

Films Featuring Golshifteh Farahani

Body of Lies

20086.6

Extraction 2

20237.4

Romantique

20225.0

About Elly

20097.5

Half Moon

20066.4

To Each His Own Cinema

20076.5

There Be Dragons

20115.1

Reading Lolita in Tehran

20247.3

Brother and Sister

20224.9

Chicken with Plums

20117.0

Can Creativity Save the World?

2024

Just Like a Woman

20135.5

The Patience Stone

20137.0

Exodus: Gods and Kings

20145.9

My Father's Dragon

20227.0

The Pear Tree

19986.8

My Sweet Pepper Land

20147.0

Woman, Life, Freedom: An Iranian Revolution

20237.9

Rule of Three

20126.0

The Music Man

20076.8

Mehrjui: The Forty-Year Report

2016

William Tell

20256.2

Cocorica

2021

Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales

20176.7

Coldplay: Music of the Spheres - Live Broadcast from Buenos Aires

20228.7

Finding Altamira

20165.8

Two Friends

20155.8

Two Angels

200310.0

Free to Create - Artists in Exile

Free to Create - Artists in Exile

20247.0

Rosewater

20146.4

The Thing That Hurts

The Thing That Hurts

Hood Witch

20236.0

Boutique

20037.1

Sophie's Misfortunes

20164.8

Alpha

20256.2

Paterson

20167.1

Les Clochettes de Kaboul

Les Clochettes de Kaboul

Sinjar, naissance des fantômes

20249.0

Go Home

20165.1

If You Die, I'll Kill You

20116.2

Eden

20145.8

M for Mother

20067.9

The Fish Fall in Love

20076.0

Bab'Aziz

20067.1

The Upside

20197.1

Christmas & Co.

20176.3

The Song of Scorpions

20197.8

The Night Eats the World

20186.0

Shelter

20175.3

Girls of the Sun

20187.0

In the Name of the Father

20065.6

There's Always a Woman in Between

20083.3

Arab Blues

20206.1

Seven Acts

20005.5

Blind Spot

20195.3

Extraction

20207.3

The Wall

2008

The Tear of the Cold

2004

Somewhere Else

2003

Zamaneh

20023.0

The Disgraced

2006

Keepers of the Covenant: Making 'Exodus: Gods and Kings'

20155.8

Schirkoa: In Lies We Trust

20245.7

Conference of the Birds

Conference of the Birds

Coldplay: Music of the Spheres - Live at River Plate

20238.0

Shirin

20096.2

Oh, What Happy Days!

2025

Un peu avant minuit

2026

Dog my Cats!

Behrouz: A Legend on Screen

2017

Matchbox: The Movie

2026

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