Golshifteh Farahani
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.
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Movies (44)
Oh, What Happy Days!
2025
Alpha
as Maman
2025
William Tell
as Suna
2025
Reading Lolita in Tehran
as Azar Nafisi
2024
Schirkoa: In Lies We Trust
as 242B (voice)
2024
Sinjar, naissance des fantômes
as Narrator (voix)
2024
Can Creativity Save the World?
as Self
2024
Free to Create - Artists in Exile
as Herself
2024
Hood Witch
as Nour
2023
Woman, Life, Freedom: An Iranian Revolution
as Self
2023
Extraction 2
as Nik Khan
2023
Coldplay: Music of the Spheres - Live at River Plate
as Self
2023
Romantique
as Salomé
2022
My Father's Dragon
as Dela Elevator (voice)
2022
Coldplay: Music of the Spheres - Live Broadcast from Buenos Aires
as Self
2022
Brother and Sister
as Faunia Vuillard
2022
Cocorica
as (voice)
2021
Extraction
as Nik Khan
2020
Arab Blues
as Selma
2020
Blind Spot
as Elham
2019
The Song of Scorpions
as Nooran
2019
The Upside
as Maggie
2019
The Night Eats the World
as Sarah
2018
Girls of the Sun
as Bahar
2018
Christmas & Co.
as Amélie
2017
Shelter
as Lina/Mona
2017
Behrouz: A Legend on Screen
as Self
2017
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales
as Shansa
2017
Paterson
as Laura
2016
Go Home
as Nada
2016
Mehrjui: The Forty-Year Report
as Self
2016
Sophie's Misfortunes
as Madame de Réan
2016
Finding Altamira
as Conchita
2016
Two Friends
as Mona
2015
Keepers of the Covenant: Making 'Exodus: Gods and Kings'
as Self
2015
Exodus: Gods and Kings
as Nefertari
2014
Eden
as Yasmin
2014
Rosewater
as Maryam
2014
My Sweet Pepper Land
as Govend
2014
Just Like a Woman
as Mona
2013
The Patience Stone
as The woman
2013
The Rule of Three
as Marie
2012
Chicken with Plums
as Irâne
2011
There Be Dragons
as Leila
2011
