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.
Acting (62 movies)
Body of Lies
2008
Extraction 2
2023
Romantique
2022
About Elly
2009
Half Moon
2006
To Each His Own Cinema
2007
There Be Dragons
2011
Reading Lolita in Tehran
2024
Brother and Sister
2022
Chicken with Plums
2011
Can Creativity Save the World?
2024
Just Like a Woman
2013
The Patience Stone
2013
Exodus: Gods and Kings
2014
My Father's Dragon
2022
The Pear Tree
1998
My Sweet Pepper Land
2014
Woman, Life, Freedom: An Iranian Revolution
2023
The Rule of Three
2012
The Music Man
2007
Mehrjui: The Forty-Year Report
2016
William Tell
2025
Cocorica
2021
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales
2017
Coldplay: Music of the Spheres - Live Broadcast from Buenos Aires
2022
Finding Altamira
2016
Two Friends
2015
Two Angels
2003
Rosewater
2014
Hood Witch
2023
Boutique
2003
Sophie's Misfortunes
2016
Alpha
2025
Paterson
2016
Sinjar, naissance des fantômes
2024
Go Home
2016
If You Die, I'll Kill You
2011
M for Mother
2006
Eden
2014
Bab'Aziz
2006
The Fish Fall in Love
2007
The Upside
2019
Christmas & Co.
2017
The Song of Scorpions
2019
The Night Eats the World
2018
Shelter
2017
Girls of the Sun
2018
In the Name of the Father
2006
There's Always a Woman in Between
2008
Arab Blues
2020
Seven Acts
2000
Blind Spot
2019
Extraction
2020
The Wall
2008
The Tear of the Cold
2004
Somewhere Else
2003
Zamaneh
2002
The Disgraced
2006
Keepers of the Covenant: Making 'Exodus: Gods and Kings'
2015
Schirkoa: In Lies We Trust
2024
Coldplay: Music of the Spheres - Live at River Plate
2023
Shirin
2009
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