Golshifteh Farahani
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.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 3.7283 |
| Birthday | 1983-07-10 |
| Place of Birth | Tehran, Iran |
| Also Known As | Rahavard Farahani, Golshifte Farahani, რაჰავარდ ფარაჰანი, |
2008
Body of Lies
6.628/3421
The CIA’s hunt is on for the mastermind of a wave of terrorist attacks. Roger Ferris is the agency’s man on the ground, moving from place to place, sc...
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Body of Lies
2023
Extraction 2
7.387/3045
Back from the brink of death, highly skilled commando Tyler Rake takes on another dangerous mission: saving the imprisoned family of a ruthless gangst...
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Extraction 2
2022
Romantique
5/27
After disappearing overnight, a man reappears and discovers that he is the father of a little girl. This time he will do his best.
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Romantique
2009
About Elly
7.485/563
The mysterious disappearance of a kindergarten teacher during a picnic in the north of Iran is followed by a series of misadventures for her fellow tr...
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About Elly
2006
Half Moon
6.467/30
Mamo, an old and legendary Kurdish musician living in Iran, plans to give one final concert in Iraqi Kurdistan. After seven months of trying to get a...
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Half Moon
2007
To Each His Own Cinema
6.4/160
Commissioned to mark the 60th anniversary of the Cannes Film Festival, "To Each His Own Cinema" brought together 33 of the world's pre-eminent filmmak...
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To Each His Own Cinema
2011
There Be Dragons
5.127/146
Arising out of the horror of the Spanish Civil War, a candidate for canonization is investigated by a journalist who discovers his own estranged fathe...
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There Be Dragons
2024
Reading Lolita in Tehran
7.296/76
In 1979, amidst censorship and religious extremism, a revolutionary literature professor in Tehran gathers seven of her most dedicated female students...
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Reading Lolita in Tehran
2022
Brother and Sister
4.926/122
Alice and Louis are brother and sister. She is an actress; he was a teacher and poet. For more than 20 years, Alice has hated her brother. In all this...
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Brother and Sister
2011
Chicken with Plums
7.021/190
Since his beloved violin was broken, Nasser-Ali Khan, one of the most renowned musicians of his day, has lost all taste for life. Finding no instrumen...
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Chicken with Plums
2024
Can Creativity Save the World?
0/0
The final part of the Creativity Trilogy explores existential threats our world is facing. An inspiring film about imagination's power and a hopeful g...
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Can Creativity Save the World?
2013
Just Like a Woman
5.551/39
Two women get on the highway heading to Santa Fe. Marilyn dreams of winning a contest held by a famous belly dancing company, while her friend, Mona,...
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Just Like a Woman
2013
The Patience Stone
7.026/115
In a war-ridden country, a woman watches over her husband, comatose from a bullet in the neck and abandoned by Jihad companions and brothers. One day,...
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The Patience Stone
2014
Exodus: Gods and Kings
5.884/4939
The defiant leader Moses rises up against the Egyptian Pharaoh Ramses, setting 400,000 slaves on a monumental journey of escape from Egypt and its ter...
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Exodus: Gods and Kings
2022
My Father's Dragon
7.016/122
Struggling to cope after a move to the city with his mother, Elmer runs away in search of Wild Island and a young dragon who waits to be rescued. Elme...
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My Father's Dragon
1998
The Pear Tree
6.8/20
Mahmoud is suffering from writer's block and he is unable to continue the book he is currently working upon. He decides to take a break from his routi...
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The Pear Tree
2014
My Sweet Pepper Land
6.961/102
Baran, a war hero, becomes sheriff of the capital and refuses to bow down to a tribal chief.
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My Sweet Pepper Land
2023
Woman, Life, Freedom: An Iranian Revolution
7.875/4
On September 16, 2022, in Teheran, the murder by police of the young Mahsa Amini, arrested for "wearing a headscarf contrary to the law", sparked off...
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Woman, Life, Freedom: An Iranian Revolution
2012
Rule of Three
6/9
Louis takes care of Vincent but expects that Marie manage it alone. The three of them spend an afternoon together and at the end of the day, they thin...
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Rule of Three
2007
The Music Man
6.864/33
Ali is son of a well-off family who plays the santoor (an Iranian instrument) and has earned some reputation through his concerts and teaching music b...
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The Music Man
2016
Mehrjui: The Forty-Year Report
0/0
Mehrjui: The Forty-Year Report dives into the artistic world of Iranian director Dariush Mehrjui. The film offers critical interpretations of his work...
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Mehrjui: The Forty-Year Report
2025
William Tell
6.199/266
The narrative unfolds in the 14th Century, when the European nations vie for supremacy within the Holy Roman Empire. The ambitious Austrian Empire, de...
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William Tell
2021
Cocorica
0/0
Frida, a young hen, wants to be a singer. However, her village is directed by strong rules: only chickens are allowed to sing, hens should be brood. I...
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Cocorica
2017
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales
6.665/13040
Thrust into an all-new adventure, a down-on-his-luck Capt. Jack Sparrow feels the winds of ill-fortune blowing even more strongly when deadly ghost sa...
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Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales
2022
Coldplay: Music of the Spheres - Live Broadcast from Buenos Aires
8.667/12
Experience the stunning spectacle of Coldplay’s record-breaking Music Of The Spheres world tour at your local cinema with this spectacular worldwide l...
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Coldplay: Music of the Spheres - Live Broadcast from Buenos Aires
2016
Finding Altamira
5.8/143
The story of nine-year old Maria and her father Marcelino who, in 1879, found the first pre-historic cave paintings at the now world famous Altamira c...
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Finding Altamira
2015
Two Friends
5.846/143
Mona, a prisoner on work release, meets Clément, a shy actor. Desperate to impress Mona, Clément recruits his extroverted friend, Abel, to help. When...
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Two Friends
2003
Two Angels
10/1
In a small religious town in Iran, Ali After a fight with his father, escapes to the desert where he hears music for the first time in his life: a she...
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Two Angels
2024
Free to Create - Artists in Exile
7/1
Artists forced to leave their country talk about the ambivalence of exile. With Iranian actress Golshifteh Farahani, Chinese artist Ai Weiwei, Sudanes...
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Free to Create - Artists in Exile
2014
Rosewater
6.426/195
In 2009, Iranian Canadian journalist Maziar Bahari was covering Iran's volatile elections for Newsweek. One of the few reporters living in the country...
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Rosewater
The Thing That Hurts
0/0
A group of patients converges in Paris following the demise of their renowned American psychoanalyst, unveiling profound bonds as they reminisce about...
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The Thing That Hurts
2023
Hood Witch
6.043/69
A woman earns a living by smuggling exotic animals and illegal goods, developing a mobile app that links users with mystical marabout healers, but one...
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Hood Witch
2003
Boutique
7.1/13
A clothing store worker (Jahan) meets a poor girl named Eti. Jahan tries to help the girl and solve her problems, but…
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Boutique
2016
Sophie's Misfortunes
4.864/99
Sophie is far from being the model little girl one would like her to be, unlike her friends Camille and Madeleine. She always insists on having her ow...
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Sophie's Misfortunes
2025
Alpha
6.2/136
Alpha, a troubled 13-year-old lives with her single mom. Their world collapses the day she returns from school with a tattoo on her arm.
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Alpha
2016
Paterson
7.119/2113
A week in the life of Paterson, a poet bus driver, and his wife Laura, a very creative artist, who live in Paterson, New Jersey, hometown of many famo...
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Paterson
Les Clochettes de Kaboul
0/0
Afghanistan, summer 2021. As the Taliban gradually seize control of the country, Leila, a young widow, arrives in Kabul. She begins working in a kitch...
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Les Clochettes de Kaboul
2024
Sinjar, naissance des fantômes
9/2
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2016
Go Home
5.1/8
Nada is going home. Or at least she wants to. When she comes back to Lebanon, she realizes she's a foreigner in her own country. But there's still a p...
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Go Home
2011
If You Die, I'll Kill You
6.154/13
In Paris' cosmopolitan and colorful 10th arrondissement, Philippe, who's fresh out of prison, crosses paths with Avdal, a Kurd who is trying to track...
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If You Die, I'll Kill You
2006
M for Mother
7.792/24
What appears to be a grand love story turns sour when parents-to-be discover that their unborn child will likely be born with serious birth defects, a...
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M for Mother
2014
Eden
5.81/147
Paul, a teenager in the underground scene of early-nineties Paris, forms a DJ collective with his friends and together they plunge into the nightlife...
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Eden
2007
The Fish Fall in Love
6/5
After 22 years, Aziz decides to return to his hometown, to sell some family possessions, including the house where he was born. But for his astonishme...
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2006
Bab'Aziz
7.156/48
The story of a blind dervish named Bab'Aziz and his spirited granddaughter, Ishtar. Together they wander the desert in search of a great reunion of de...
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Bab'Aziz
2019
The Upside
7.117/1433
Phillip is a wealthy quadriplegic who needs a caretaker to help him with his day-to-day routine in his New York penthouse. He decides to hire Dell, a...
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The Upside
2017
Christmas & Co.
6.272/683
Christmas is on its way and with it disaster. The 92,000 responsible for manufacturing children's toys all become sick at the same time! It's a tough...
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Christmas & Co.
2019
The Song of Scorpions
7.786/7
While Nooran, learns the ancient art of healing with music from her mother, Aadam a camel trader listens to her sing and falls in love with her and th...
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The Song of Scorpions
2018
The Night Eats the World
6.034/830
After waking up to find himself all alone in an apartment where a massive party was being held the night before, Sam is immediately forced to face a t...
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The Night Eats the World
2017
Shelter
5.313/32
Naomi, an Israeli Mossad agent, is sent to Germany to protect Mona, a Lebanese informant recovering from plastic surgery to assume her new identity. T...
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Shelter
2018
Girls of the Sun
7.017/88
Bahar, the commanding officer of the Daughters of the Sun, a battalion made up entirely of Kurdish female soldiers, is on the cusp of liberating their...
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Girls of the Sun
2006
In the Name of the Father
5.75/8
This is about a father and his daughter who has been injured from the mines from Iran-Iraq war.
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In the Name of the Father
2008
There's Always a Woman in Between
3.3/3
A couple who had a romantic marriage and life now are about to get divorce but meanwhile many people are intervening.
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There's Always a Woman in Between
2020
Arab Blues
6.091/252
Selma, a psychoanalyst, deals with a cast of colorful new patients after returning home to Tunisia to open a practice.
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Arab Blues
2000
Seven Acts
5.5/2
Four young men come together to solve their financial Problems.
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Seven Acts
2019
Blind Spot
5.262/21
Dominick Brassan has the power to turn invisible, but rarely uses it. Instead he has kept it a shameful secret, hidden even from Viveka, his fiancée....
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Blind Spot
2020
Extraction
7.287/6779
A hardened gun-for-hire's latest mission becomes a soul-searching race to survive when he's sent into Bangladesh to rescue a drug lord's kidnapped son...
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Extraction
2008
The Wall
0/0
For the young and fearless Setareh, there are no walls or boundaries she cannot overcome. Determined to provide for her family, Setareh takes a job as...
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The Wall
2004
The Tear of the Cold
0/0
During the Iran-Iraq war,a soldier and a Kurdish girl come to a new understanding of the notion of animosity despite their supposedly opposite circums...
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The Tear of the Cold
2003
Somewhere Else
0/0
Five characters are stuck on an island, from where they hope to escape to "somewhere else", the utopia of their dreams. Dr. Tavussi (Ahmad Najafi) off...
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Somewhere Else
2002
Zamaneh
3/1
Zamane and Saeid are neighbors. Despite their own arrangements to get married, their families are against this marriage. Zamane’s family’s reason for...
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Zamaneh
2006
The Disgraced
0/0
Mariam is a young girl growing up in the Islamic Republic of Iran. Although she is quite innocent, her conservative father keeps thinking that she has...
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The Disgraced
2015
Keepers of the Covenant: Making 'Exodus: Gods and Kings'
5.781/32
An in-depth documentary on the making of Ridley Scott's "Exodus: Gods and Kings," featuring interviews with the cast and crew. Featured in the Deluxe...
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Keepers of the Covenant: Making 'Exodus: Gods and Kings'
2024
Schirkoa: In Lies We Trust
5.7/11
In a sophisticated near perfect society, citizens live with paper bags on heads to dissolve differences. Tensions rise when the whispers of a mythical...
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Conference of the Birds
0/0
The film centers on a flock of birds who are the sole survivors of a man-made natural disaster. Leading the avian gang is Hod-Hod, a young adventurous...
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Conference of the Birds
2023
Coldplay: Music of the Spheres - Live at River Plate
8.286/7
Filmed during Coldplay’s sold out, ten night run at Buenos Aires’ River Plate stadium, this spectacular concert film features remixed sound and stunni...
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Coldplay: Music of the Spheres - Live at River Plate
2009
Shirin
6.184/38
A hundred and fourteen famous Iranian theater and cinema actresses and a French star: mute spectators at a theatrical representation of Khosrow and Sh...
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Shirin
2025
Oh, What Happy Days!
0/0
On the eve of losing her family estate, actress Homa is blackmailed by a government agent with a compromising tape. Forced into a real-time video call...
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Oh, What Happy Days!
2026
One Minute to Midnight
0/0
As he is about to separate from his partner, with whom he lives in Eastern France, 49-year-old Léo learns of the death of his biological father whom h...
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Dog my Cats!
0/0
Jules's life has taken a sad turn after his parents' divorce, but his routine is disrupted by the unexpected arrival of his grandmother Jeanne, who is...
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Dog my Cats!
2017
Behrouz: A Legend on Screen
0/0
Behrouz Vossoughi, legendary Iranian actor, leaves his country just before the revolution in 1978, and he could never return to his homeland. This is...
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Behrouz: A Legend on Screen
2026
Matchbox the Movie
0/0
When a group of former childhood friends reconnect, their reunion takes a wild turn as they stumble upon a dangerous international plot—and must save...
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Extraction 3
0/0
The third installment in the franchise. Plot TBA.
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