Iranian in Hollywood
by jhcheeeass | created - 08 Jan 2018 | updated - 08 Jan 2018 | Public
1. Shohreh Aghdashloo
Actress | House of Sand and Fog
Shohreh Aghdashloo was born Shohreh Vaziri-Tabar on May 11, 1952 in Tehran, Iran. In the 1970s at age 20, she achieved nationwide stardom in her homeland of Iran, starring in some prominent pictures such as The Report (1977) directed by the renowned Abbas Kiarostami, which won critics awards at the...
2. Golshifteh Farahani
Actress | Paterson
Golshifteh started her acting career in theater at the age of 6 and has always kept a strong link with theater, but it was at the age of 14 that she acted in her first film The Pear Tree (1998), for which she won the prize for the Best Actress from the international section of the Fajr film ...
3. Nazanin Boniadi
Actress | Hotel Mumbai
Nazanin Boniadi is rapidly making her mark in both film and television. She co-starred as CIA analyst Fara Sherazi on seasons three and four of the Emmy and Golden Globe award-winning drama Homeland (2011), for which she shared a 2015 SAG Award nomination in the Outstanding Performance by an ...
4. Asghar Farhadi
Writer | Darbareye Elly
Asghar Farhadi was born in 1972 in Iran. He became interested in cinema in his teenage years and started his filmmaking education by joining the Youth Cinema Society of Esfahan in 1986 where he made 8mm and 16mm short films. He received his Bachelors in Theater from University of Tehran's School of...
5. Bob Yari
Producer | Crash
Bob Yari was born on May 30, 1961 in Iran as Babar Yaghoubzadeh. He is a producer and executive, known for Crash (2004), Hostage (2005) and Papa Hemingway in Cuba (2015).
6. Christiane Amanpour
Actress | Iron Man 2
Christiane Amanpour was born on January 12, 1958 in London, England. She is a writer and actress, known for Iron Man 2 (2010), Zoolander 2 (2016) and Trash (2014). She was previously married to James Rubin.
7. Barbet Schroeder
Director | La virgen de los sicarios
Barbet Schroeder was born on August 26, 1941 in Tehran, Iran. He is a director and producer, known for Our Lady of the Assassins (2000), Single White Female (1992) and Murder by Numbers (2002). He has been married to Bulle Ogier since April 1991.
8. Farhad Safinia
Writer | Apocalypto
Farhad Safinia was born in 1975 in Tehran, Iran. He is a writer and producer, known for Apocalypto (2006), The Professor and the Madman (2019) and Boss (2011). He has been married to Laura Regan since 2007.
9. Adrian Pasdar
Actor | Near Dark
Adrian Pasdar was born in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, to Rosemarie Pasdar (née Sbresny), who owns a travel agency, and Homayoon Pasdar, a prominent heart surgeon. His father is Iranian and his mother, who was born in Germany, is of German, and some Polish, descent. At the age of 2, his father moved ...
10. Payman Maadi
Actor | Jodaeiye Nader az Simin
Peyman Maadi was born in 1972 in New York City to an Iranian couple. His father was a lawyer. His family moved back to Iran when he was 5 years old. He graduated in Metallurgical Engineering from Karaj Azad University. Maadi started his film career as a screenwriter in late 2000s. He is the writer ...
11. Ali Mosaffa
Actor | Le passé
Mosaffa was born in Tehran, Iran. His father, Mozaher Mosaffa is a renowned Persian poet and professor of Persian literature at the University of Tehran (UT). Mosaffa's mother, Amir Banoo Karimi is also a leading scholar and professor of Persian literature at the University of Tehran (UT) and the ...
12. Homayoun Ershadi
Actor | The Kite Runner
Homayoun Ershadi was born in 1947 in Isfahan, Iran. He is an actor, known for The Kite Runner (2007), A Most Wanted Man (2014) and Taste of Cherry (1997).
13. Babak Karimi
Actor | Forushande
Babak Karimi is an actor and editor, known for The Salesman (2016), The Past (2013) and A Separation (2011).
14. Yara Shahidi
Actress | Salt
Yara Shahidi was born on February 10, 2000 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA as Yara Sayeh Shahidi. She is an actress and producer, known for Salt (2010), Black-ish (2014) and Alex Cross (2012).
15. Bahar Soomekh
Actress | Saw III
Bahar Soomekh was born on March 30, 1975 in Tehran, Iran, to a Persian Jewish family. She is the daughter of Manijeh and Hamid Soomekh, who owned a women's high fashion company. She has a sister, Saba Soomekh. The family moved to Los Angeles in 1979, to escape the Iranian revolution. She attended a...
16. Sarah Shahi
Actress | Bullet to the Head
Sarah Shahi was born Aahoo Jahansouz in Euless, Texas, to an Iranian father and Spanish mother. She is a former NFL cheerleader and a descendant of a 19th-century Persian Shah. She attended Trinity High School and Dallas Southern Methodist University, studied opera and majored in English. As a ...
17. Nadia Bjorlin
Actress | Days of Our Lives
Nadia Bjorlin was born the fifth out of six children. Her parents were Ulf Björlin (a Swedish conductor and composer, known to be the world's most active opera composer during the 20th century) and Fary Bjorlin. Her siblings are Katja, Kaj, Kamilla, Ulf Jr and Jean Paul. (Each sibling have a ...
18. Shermine Sharivar
Actress | Alarm für Cobra 11 - Die Autobahnpolizei
Shermine Sharivar is an actress, known for Alarm für Cobra 11 - Die Autobahnpolizei (1996), Deutschland tanzt (2016) and Taff (1997).
19. Nicole Sadighi
Actress | I Am Neda
Nicole, the daughter of two prominent Iranian-American journalists, Nader Sadighi and Shahla Arasteh, grew up in London, England, in a little town called Twickenham, Richmond upon Thames. And it was those early years that she remembers wanting to grow up to be an actress.
At the age of nine she ...
20. Catherine Bell
Actress | Bruce Almighty
Catherine was born in London, but she moved to California with her Iranian mother at the age of two. Her mother still acts as her personal assistant. As a girl, she acted in various TV advertisements. She went to UCLA to study biology/ pre-medicine, but she dropped out to become a model in Japan. ...
21. Nasim Pedrad
Actress | Aladdin
Nasim Pedrad (born November 18, 1981) is an American actress and comedian best known for her five seasons as a cast member on Saturday Night Live (1975) from 2009 to 2014. She has since gone on to co-star in sitcoms such as Mulaney (2014), Scream Queens (2015), People of Earth (2016), and New Girl ...
22. Leyla Milani
Actress | Shut Up and Shoot!
Leyla--AKA Lucky #13 can be seen on several hit network shows, several upcoming motion picture releases, as well as a new nationally televised Budweiser commercial.
As Brittany, "the girl on the go in the 310," Leyla Milani adds to her ever growing list of film credits, appearing in this highly ...
23. Lanna Joffrey
Actress | Fishing Naked
Lanna Joffrey was born on September 9, 1977 in Iran as Ladan Jafari. She is an actress, known for Fishing Naked (2015), The Murder Plans (2011) and Druid Peak (2014).
24. Nikka Far
Actress | Argo
Nikka Far is an actress and director, known for Argo (2012) and Paranoid Activity (2011).
25. Kathreen Khavari
Actress | Avengers Assemble
Kathreen Khavari is an actress and producer, known for Avengers Assemble (2013), Big Little Lies (2017) and Insecure (2016).
26. Saye Yabandeh
Actress | 5th & Alameda
SAYE YABANDEH is an Iranian-born Hollywood actress focused on using her platform to bring awareness to global issues and to give back to refugees and underserved children and families around the world. An award-winning international film actress and producer, Saye has been in over 34 films and ...
27. Mania Akbari
Director | 20 Fingers
Mania Akbari was born in 1974 in Tehran, Iran. The daughter of schoolteachers, she started painting at a very early age. Later she worked as cinematographer and assistant director on documentaries, which reoriented her towards cinema. Her international breakthrough occurred, however, not as a ...
28. Navid Negahban
Actor | Aladdin
Navid, though sometimes called "the man of a thousand faces," is still most widely regarded as Abu Nazir, the enigmatic al-Qaeda leader he played for two seasons on Showtime's Emmy-winning original series "Homeland." Among his many fans are Israeli president Shimon Peres and U.S. president Barack ...
29. Nazanin Mandi
Actress | Dreamcatcher
A native of Valencia, California, Nazanin Mandi is a natural performer. Singing and dancing at age 3, modeling at age 10, vocal performance at Carnegie Hall (Performing Mozart Requiem New York, NY) by age 15, and there's no end in sight.
Nazanin Mandi is a recognized talent as a finalist on Ed ...
30. Pej Vahdat
Actor | A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night
Pej Vahdat was born as Pejman Vahdat. He is an actor, known for A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night (2014), Bones (2005) and Grey's Anatomy (2005).
31. David Diaan
Actor | Curb Your Enthusiasm
David Diaan has built an impressive career as an Iranian American Actor, Writer, and Producer. David came to the United States as a teenager and completed high school in the Midwest. He then studied Radio, Television, & Journalism at the University of Missouri Columbia. David's first endeavor in ...
32. Shaun Toub
Actor | Iron Man
Shaun Toub was born in Tehran, Iran, to a Persian Jewish family. He was raised in Manchester, England. At the age of 14, he moved to Switzerland and after a two year stay, he crossed the Atlantic to Nashua, New Hampshire, to finish his last year of high school. After two years of college in ...
33. Marshall Manesh
Actor | The Big Lebowski
Marshall Manesh was born in Iran. He lost his father at an early age and was raised by his beloved mother, whom he feels he got his strength from to make it in show biz. He came to America in the mid "70s" and joined the Persian Theater Group and traveled extensively through out The United States, ...
34. Anthony Azizi
Actor | Eagle Eye
Anthony Azizi started his career many years ago, as a child, acting in plays for the Touchstone Theater run by Bill and Bridget George in Bethlehem, PA. He also started writing and staging his own plays at the age of eight for school and other public venues. He continued in the arts throughout all ...
35. Max Amini
Producer | In the Lion's Shadow
Max Amini was born in Tucson, Arizona. He was raised on the East Coast and graduated from UCLA's school of Theater, Film and Television in 2004. As an actor, Max has numerous film and television credits including NBC's Heroes, regular appearances on Comedy Central's Mind of Mencia, Netflix original...
36. Behrouz Vossoughi
Actor | Farar az Taleh
Behrouz Vossoughi is one of Iran's most legendary actors. He has over 40 years of experience in the motion picture industry, with featured appearances in more than 90 films. In addition to his work in films, television, radio and theater, Behrouz' performances have earned him recognition at several...
37. Sayeed Shahidi
Actor | Alex Cross
Sayeed Shahidi is an actor, known for Alex Cross (2012), Unthinkable (2010) and Intelligence (2014).
38. Tami Stronach
Actress | Die unendliche Geschichte
She is half-Scottish (father) and half-Israeli (mother). Her father Professor David Stronach, was a notable expert on Persian antiquities. The family had to flee Persia/Iran during the Revolution. They went to Israel, but ended up in America, where Tami is still based. She was studying acting in ...
39. Yasmine Aker
Actress | 12 Strong
Yasmine Aker is an actress, singer and songwriter based out of Los Angeles, California. She was born in Dubai, United Arab Emirates to Iranian parents and later moved to Canada. She began performing at an early age, starring in school plays and community events. She sang soprano with the Voices of ...
40. Shiva Negar
Actress | American Assassin
Shiva Negar comes from a very diverse background, born in Iran and raised in Turkey and Canada. She began her career as a child performer by performing on piano and guitar at recitals and in singing competitions. In high school, Shiva was involved in several school plays and theatre, which quickly ...
41. Taies Farzan
Actress | Argo
Taies Farzan was born in Tehran, Iran. Her family moved to Turkey and thereafter to Germany. She speaks Persian, Turkish, German, English, Kurdish. She was on stage at the age of 14 in Cologne Germany and appeared in lead positions in more than 15 stage pieces until she met Daryush Shokof in a ...
42. Mina Badie
Actress | Road to Perdition
Mina Badie was born on November 28, 1970 in Los Angeles, California, USA as Mina Badiyi. She is an actress, known for Road to Perdition (2002), Greenberg (2010) and Eleventh Hour (2008).
43. Marie Selva
Producer | Hole of Life
Marie Selva was born in Paris to an Iranian Mother and French/Spanish Father.She is an artist, film director who studied at the film school of cinema in Paris, France. She travel around the world and she is fascinated by people. After long trip and so many short movie and documentary she start her ...
44. Rosie Malek-Yonan
Actress | Rendition
Rosie Malek-Yonan was born on the fourth of July, 1955 in Tehran, Iran. She is an actress, director, producer, published author, documentary filmmaker, a classically trained pianist, composer and a human rights activist. She is a descendant of one of the oldest and most prominent Assyrian Christian...
45. Necar Zadegan
Actress | 24
Necar began working in the theater at age 16 at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in Scotland and has since stayed close to the theater while splitting her time between film and television. In 2011, she played a lead role in the FilmMcQueen production of "Meth Head." She followed that with a role on ...
46. Tala Ashe
Actress | Legends of Tomorrow
Tala Ashrafi (born July 24, 1984), known professionally as Tala Ashe, is an Iranian-American actress. She is known for her roles on the television series Smash, American Odyssey, and As the World Turns, as well as her regular role as Zari Tomaz on The CW superhero series Legends of Tomorrow.
Ashe ...
47. Narges Rashidi
Actress | Under the Shadow
Narges Rashidi was born in Iran, settled in 1987 with her family at first in Turkey and a year later to Germany. After graduation she moved to Berlin and studied acting. In 2005 she attended in Los Angeles the Master Class with MK Lewis. In 2007 she received the award for Best Young Actress at the ...
48. Tandees Tanavoli
Producer | Impromptu: The Audition
Tandees' first film was destroyed when the building that housed her film school was hit by bombs in the Iran/Iraq war. She was then 16 years old. After graduating from high school, Tandees and her family moved to Vancouver, Canada, where she continued her studies in media, television and later on ...
49. Atossa Leoni
Actress | The Kite Runner
Atossa Leoni was born in October 1977 in Berlin, Germany. She is an actress, known for The Kite Runner (2007), Eyes (2005) and The Florist (2004).
50. Sheila Vand
Actress | A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night
Sheila Vand is an actress, known for A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night (2014), Argo (2012) and We the Animals (2018).
51. Rabeah Ghaffari
Producer | The Troupe
Rabeah Ghaffari was born in Iran in 1971 and has been living in New York City since 1981. She is a writer, filmmaker and actress. She has performed at many New York theaters including La MaMa, ETC, Theatre 22, The Judith Anderson and The Kitchen. Her film acting credits include "Windows", by Shoja ...
52. Samira Damavandi
Actress | House of Sand and Fog
Samira was born in Los Angeles, California. She began to participate in beauty pageant when she was one year old. At age 6, she appeared in the show "Kids Say The Darndest Things" which began her acting career. She was cast in the film House of Sand and Fog in 2003 and in the Lifetime series, State...
53. Marjan Neshat
Actress | RoboCop
Marjan Neshat was born on October 10, 1975 in Tehran, Iran. She is an actress, known for RoboCop (2014), Alfie (2004) and Sex and the City 2 (2010).
54. Shiva Rose
Actress | David & Layla
Shiva Rose was born in Santa Monica, Los Angeles. An American of Irish and Iranian decent, she was raised in Iran until the age of ten when she and her family were forced to escape to Paris, then to Los Angeles.
She began her stage career at 15 at several theaters in Santa Monica. She attended UCLA ...
55. Garen Petrossian
Actor | The Weed Show: Love Letters to Mary Jane
Garen Petrossian is a Armenian-American actor known for The Weed Show: Letter to Mary Jane (2011) ,Tim and Eric Awesome Show ,Great Job (2009), Expendable (2008).
Garen after coming from Iran as a child he was raised in Boston, MA and after High School went to Northeastern University and received ...
56. Maz Jobrani
Actor | Jimmy Vestvood: Amerikan Hero
Maz Jobrani was born on February 26, 1972 in Tehran, Iran as Maziyar Jobrani. He is an actor and writer, known for Jimmy Vestvood: Amerikan Hero (2016), Dragonfly (2002) and Friday After Next (2002).
57. Omid Djalili
Actor | The Mummy
Omid Djalili is a British Iranian stand-up comedian and actor. Omid had great success performing A Strange Bit of History, which won the Spirit of The Fringe award at the Edinburgh Festival in 1994, Omid has since become a fringe favorite with a string of sell-out shows. In 1995 it was with Short ...
58. Darius Khondji
Cinematographer | Amour
Darius Khondji was born on October 21, 1955 in Tehran, Iran. He is known for his work on Amour (2012), Se7en (1995) and Delicatessen (1991). He is married to Marianne Khondji. They have three children.
59. Amir Mokri
Cinematographer | Man of Steel
Amir Mokri was born on June 11, 1956 in Iran as Amir M. Mokri. He is known for his work on Man of Steel (2013), Transformers: Age of Extinction (2014) and Lord of War (2005). He is married to Winnie Mokri.
60. Kaweh Modiri
Director | Bodkin Ras
Kaweh Modiri (1982) is a Dutch writer/ director of Iranian descent. His short film "My burglar and I" is a true story about an a writer who stalks his burglar over a period of a year and proclaims him to be his new protagonist. The film premièred at International Film Festival Rotterdam 2011 and ...
61. Hossein Amini
Writer | Drive
Hossein Amini was born in Iran, and when he was 11 years old, he and his family moved to England. Amini's first screenplay was for the 1994 TV movie The Dying of the Light, which was directed by Peter Kosminsky. The TV movie covered the murder of Sean Devereux, an aid worker who was murdered in ...
62. Reza Badiyi
Director | The Six Million Dollar Man
Reza Badiyi was born on April 17, 1929 in Arak, Iran as Reza Sayed Badiyi. He is known for his work on The Six Million Dollar Man (1974), Get Smart (1965) and Mission: Impossible (1966). He was married to Tania Harley, Barbara Turner and Gwendolyn M Dennis. He died on August 20, 2011 in Los Angeles...
63. Ramin Djawadi
Composer | Game of Thrones
Ramin Djawadi was born on July 19, 1974 in Duisburg, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. He is a composer, known for Game of Thrones (2011), Iron Man (2008) and Westworld (2016). He is married to Jennifer Hawks. They have two children.
64. Abbas Kiarostami
Director | Copie conforme
Abbas Kiarostami was born in Tehran, Iran, in 1940. He graduated from university with a degree in fine arts before starting work as a graphic designer. He then joined the Center for Intellectual Development of Children and Young Adults, where he started a film section, and this started his career ...
65. Bahman Ghobadi
Director | Lakposhtha parvaz mikonand
Bahman Ghobadi was born in 1969 in Baneh, in the province of Iranian Kurdistan, near the Iran-Iraq border. Shortly after graduating from the National Audiovisual School, he made his first short, immediately acclaimed by the local critics. One of these short films, "Life in Fog" (1999) is even ...
66. Rafi Pitts
Writer | Soy Nero
Rafi Pitts' films have attained acclaim and awards around the globe. Pitts' first feature, The Fifth Season (1997), premiered in the Venice Film Festival. His second, Sanam (2000) was hailed by French critics and compared to The 400 Blows (1959). In 2003, Pitts presented his controversial feature ...
67. Essy Niknejad
Producer | Laleh (Drive)
Essy Niknejad was born on June 1960, in Tehran. He was 13 years old when he met the Swedish filmmaker, 'Ingmar Bergman'. Since then, he has been inspired to make movies. His desire and aspiration for writing, directing and producing movie started at very young age in his homeland. He made several ...
68. Daryush Shokof
Writer | Asudem
Daryush Shokof is an artist and film-maker who left Iran in the 1970s for the U.S. and under the name of AliReza Shokoufandeh. He studied mathematics and physics at E.N.M.U. and then went on to get a masters degree in management from U.D. in Texas. He became a full-time artist in Germany where he ...
69. Marjane Satrapi
Director | Persepolis
Marjane Satrapi was born on November 22, 1969 in Rasht, Iran. She is a director and actress, known for Persepolis (2007), The Voices (2014) and Chicken with Plums (2011). She is married to Mattias Ripa. She was previously married to Reza.
70. Samira Makhmalbaf
Director | Panj é asr
Samira Makhmalbaf Filmmaker
Born on February 15,1980 in Tehran. At the age of eight, she played in "The Cyclist" directed by her father, Mohsen Makhmalbaf the celebrated Iranian filmmaker.
At the age of 17, she directed her first feature titled "The Apple" and She went on to become the youngest ...
71. Ramin Bahrani
Producer | 99 Homes
Ramin Bahrani was born on March 20, 1975 in North Carolina, USA. He is a producer and director, known for 99 Homes (2014), Chop Shop (2007) and Fahrenheit 451 (2018).
72. Maziar Bahari
Producer | Va ankaboot amad
Maziar Bahari is a producer and director, known for And Along Came a Spider (2003), To Light a Candle (2014) and Of Shame and Coffins (2000).
73. Mamad Haghighat
Director | Deux fereshté
Mamad Haghighat was born in 1952 in Isfahan, Iran as Mohammad Haghighat. He is a director and writer, known for Two Angels (2003), A Time for Love (1995) and Thomas, 12 ans, cinéfou (2017).
74. Amir Naderi
Director | Vegas: Based on a True Story
Amir Naderi is one of the most influential figures of 20th century Persian cinema. He developed his knowledge of cinema by watching films at the theater where he worked as a boy, reading film criticism, and making relationships with leading film critics. He began his career with still photography ...
75. Cyrus Nowrasteh
Writer | The Stoning of Soraya M.
Of Iranian descent, he was born in Boulder, Colorado, and grew up in Madison, Wisconsin. He graduated from Madison West High School and was a city boys high school tennis champion. Nowrasteh attended New Mexico State University on an athletic scholarship and later transferred to the University of ...
76. Robert Hossein
Writer | Les misérables
The son of orchestra conductor André Hossein, Paris-born Robert Hossein was trained at René Simon's acting school. Hossein labored away as actor/director with the legendary Theatre Grand Guignol in Montmartre, then spent several years on the "legitimate" stage. In films from 1955's Rififi (Rififi (...
77. Anicée Alvina
Actress | Friends
Anicée Alvina was born on January 28, 1953 in Boulogne-Billancourt, Hauts-de-Seine, France as Anicée Shahmanesh. She was an actress, known for Friends (1971), Paul and Michelle (1974) and Successive Slidings of Pleasure (1974). She died on November 10, 2006 in Paris, France.
78. Habib Zargarpour
Visual_effects | Blade Runner 2049
Habib Zargarpour graduated from Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, CA with a Bachelor of Science in Industrial Design with Distinction after receiving a Bachelor of Applied Science in Mechanical Engineering from the University of British Columbia. He started his film career on 3D IMAX films ...
79. Barry Navidi
Producer | The Merchant of Venice
Barry Navidi was born on May 17, 1960 in Tehran, Iran as Bahram Navidi. He is a producer, known for The Merchant of Venice (2004), Wilde Salomé (2011) and Listen to Me Marlon (2015).
80. Kami Asgar
Sound_department | Venom
Kami Asgar was born on May 26, 1965 in Iran. He is known for his work on Venom (2018), Apocalypto (2006) and Zombieland (2009).
81. Massy Tadjedin
Writer | Last Night
Massy Tadjedin was born in 1976 in Tehran, Iran. She is a writer and director, known for Last Night (2010), The Jacket (2005) and Leo (2002).
82. Amir Khalighi
Stunts | The Mechanic
Amir Khalighi was born in Tehran Iran. The Iranian Revolution thwarted him out of Iran and into the neon lights of the West. His start in the arts came at the age of 17 with his theatrical lead in the UJ Production of "Our House" then laid dormant until his productions of two successful Los Angeles...
83. Marco Khan
Actor | 10,000 BC
Marco Khan(lian) is a true citizen of the world. He was born March 27th of Armenian parents in Tehran, Iran. His father, Levon was born in Lebanon and raised in Iran where he met his wife Anna, born in Babol, Iran. Marco's grandparents (from his mother's side) were a grandfather from Russia and a ...
84. Marsh Mokhtari
Self | Extreme Chef
Although Marsh Mokhtari was born in the UK, his father's nautical career took him to Persia for his first six years. He then spent the next 19 years in the UK. He holds a degree in 'Medical Physics' from the University of Newcastle. While at Newcastle he played American football for the UK national...
85. Nicholas Guilak
Actor | Saving Jessica Lynch
Nicholas Guilak was born in Houston,Texas and raised in La Jolla, California, moved to Los Angeles in 1991 and received his Bachelors of Arts from USC in Theatre, Humanities and Film. He then studied in London then Scotland were he performed in thirteen different shows, 168 performances and ...
86. Andy Madadian
Actor | House of Sand and Fog
Andy Madadian was born as Andreanik Madadian. He has been married to Shani Rigsbee since November 11, 2011.
87. Navid Navid
Actor | Septembers of Shiraz
Navid was born in Teheran, Iran. Due to the Iran-Iraq war the four-year old Navid had to escape with his family from his native country. They lived for some time in the USA but since 1985 Navid has been in Germany at home.
Navid has grown up trilingual (English, German, Persian). He was 8 years old ...
88. Sam Khoze
Producer | 1st Born
Sam Khoze is a highly sought after and innovative filmmaker and author. He has worked with some of the biggest names in Hollywood, both as a producer and director, and he is currently in development on a number of large feature films and television programs. Sam began his career as a director but ...
89. Dominic Rains
Actor | A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night
Dominic Rains was born on March 1, 1982 in Tehran, Iran as Amin Nazemzadeh. He is an actor and producer, known for A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night (2014), Burn Country (2016) and The Taqwacores (2010).
90. Omid Nooshin
Writer | Last Passenger
Omid Nooshin was born on May 2, 1974. He was a writer and director, known for Last Passenger (2013), Kill Switch (2017) and Invade. He died on January 15, 2018 in London, England.
91. Babak Mansouri
Camera_department | Ant-Man
Babak Mansouri was lucky enough to be born into a family of filmmakers. His mother chose documentary filmmaking to effect social change which heavily influenced and inspired Babak even as a child. He, too, chose filmmaking as a tool for tackling issues like poverty and social injustices in our ...
92. Kevin Hamedani
Director | Junk
Kevin Hamedani was born on December 25, 1982 in Kent, Washington, USA. He is a director and producer, known for Junk (2012), ZMD: Zombies of Mass Destruction (2009) and In Her Place (2015).
93. Bobby Naderi
Actor | Under the Shadow
Born after a revolution, during the Iran/Iraq war Bobby Naderi along with his mother traveled to Turkey, then Switzerland, and finally settling and receiving asylum from Canada. As the son of an artist Bobby fell in love with story and early on acclaimed director Nina Menkes discovered him and cast...
94. Ramin Niami
Producer | Babe's and Ricky's Inn
Ramin Niami is a producer and director, known for Babe's and Ricky's Inn (2013), Paris (2003) and Shirin in Love (2014). He is married to Karen Robson. They have two children.
95. Travis Cody Aimer
Actor | American Pie
Travis Cody, the second of six brothers, was born in Laguna Beach California. His father is an Airline Captain, and his mother a Gospel Singer. He started acting in Church and school plays at age two; his first role was as Baby Jesus!
When he was cast in American Pie (1999), he was sixteen, and was ...
96. GiGi Hessamian
Actress | Criminal Minds
GiGi Hessamian is an actress and writer, known for Criminal Minds (2005), The Orville (2017) and House (2004).
97. Arash Mokhtar
Actor | Madam Secretary
Arash Mokhtar is an actor and director, known for Madam Secretary (2014), Instinct (2018) and Black Site Delta (2017).
98. Dorianne Pahlavan
Actress | Argo
Dorianne Pahlavan is an actress and writer, known for Argo (2012) and Sunday (2013).
99. Rome Shadanloo
Actress | A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night
Rome started out doing theater in Santa Monica College and was one of six students picked to work with Dustin Hoffman when he came to visit the school. She soon excelled and was invited back to perform scenes for the new students and share her personal experiences with them. A few years later she ...
100. Mahsa Ahmadi
Stunts | Bang Bang
Mahsa Ahmadi is known for her work on Bang Bang (2014), Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (2013) and 9-1-1 (2018).
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