Golshifteh Farahani

Golshifteh Farahani's biography

Rahavard Farahani is 39 years old actor born at Tehran, Iran. Golshifteh was born on Sunday 10th of July 1983. Golshifteh is often nicknamed as Goli, گلشیفته فراهانی, Golŝifte Farāhāni, Golšifteh Farāhāni, Golshifte Farahani, Rahavard Farahani, Golshifteh Farahani, Golshifteh. According to year of birth 1983 she belongs to Millennials. Birthday on 10th of July means Golshifteh is Cancer. Cancer is a watery sign. They are very friendly and show motherly love to everyone. According to ascendant calculator, an important trait of these natives is their sensitive nature.

She is native persian speaker. She is middle eastern iranian. Golshifteh is citizen of Iran. She is muslim. Golshifteh´s primary profession is to be actor. You can know Golshifteh also as musician. She is recently known as film actor.

Golshifteh Farahani's dad

Golshifteh Farahani's father's name is Behzad Farahani. He is known as actor. Golshifteh´s father was born on Sunday 21st of January 1945 in Farahan County.

Golshifteh Farahani's schools

We found 1 school Golshifteh attended. Name of the school: Islamic Azad University.

Detailed informations about Golshifteh´s schools

She studied university - Islamic Azad University.

Golshifteh Farahani's career

Golshifteh´s main focus is to be actor. She is famous thanks to her role as Sepideh in Asghar Farhadi's 2009 intriguing psychological drama About Elly, which won Best Picture at the 2009 Tribeca Film Festival and a Silver Bear at the Berlin International Film Festival. Maybe you are curious what instrument does Golshifteh play ? Golshifteh plays piano.

Is Golshifteh Farahani gay ?

She is known to be straight.

What Golshifteh Farahani has done for a first time

• Her underground rock band "Kooch" got the first prize at the 2nd Tehran Avenue Underground Rock Festival in 2003. Rock music and women singing are banned in Iran.
• First lead role at 14.
• The name "Golshifteh" was not accepted by the authorities as a proper name, so the name "Rahavard" was chosen as an "official" first name for her.
• First Iranian star after the 1979 revolution to play in a major Hollywood production: Ridley Scott's Body of Lies (2008) with Leonardo DiCaprio and Russell Crowe.

Golshifteh Farahani's quotes

• I have scars from every film I have made. There is nothing to protect actors. They treat you worse than a dog. You work like a slave, and you know, I like it. That is the way it should be. Every film should be like your last.
• Exile is my power.
• The Iran I'm dreaming of maybe doesn't exist anymore.
• I had to tell people I was not born with a scarf because I came out of Iran. People think you came out of your mother with a scarf; they can't imagine that the scarf is not stuck to your head.
• Independent cinema is more thoughtful, delicate. While Western blockbusters can have their own kind of delicateness, it's not delicate enough. You have to be ready to compromise to enter that field. I will do so only if it's worth it.
• For me, Iran was paradise, and I believe it's a paradise still, but only if you don't have political problems. If you have a political problem, paradise turns into hell.
• In my life, my parents wanted me to be a musician, I was supposed to go to Vienna to study piano. But this train wanted to go in another direction.
• The subjects that I am working are movies that say something. They are shouting or criticising something. I would hate to play a princess waiting for the prince to come and give her a kiss.
• I was born into an artistic family, and they understood me. But they were really worried, because some of the stuff I did was dangerous. If I'd been caught without the veil with a shaved head, I don't know what would have happened.
• Exile is like death. You cannot understand it until it happens to you.
• There's an expression in Persian, "Tto play with the lion's tail". I wasn't what Iranian society wanted me to be--a good girl. I played with the lion's tail.
• If you want to do what you want to do, you cannot work. So art is going to be finished, and this is the will of the Islamic republic: to not have any artists or art and close the doors of all the cinemas and music and everything.
• Paris is a city that liberates you as a woman from all your sins that you think you are guilty of; it washes away all of that, and you are free.
• I don't regret anything and what I have done in my period of my life. Everything happens for a reason, and that's why I am here.
• I don't believe I could live in Iran again. A tree, once uprooted from the earth, is very difficult to plant again.
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Golshifteh Farahani's height, weight, body shape, eye color

Lets describe how Golshifteh Farahani looks. We will focus on her height, weight, body shape, eye color and hair color. Golshifteh is tall as 5' 6½" (169 cm). She weights 128lbs (58 kg). Body build is slim. Her eyes are tinted brown - dark. Golshifteh´s hair is shade of brown - dark.

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