Biography
Marjane Satrapi is an Iranian-born French contemporary graphic novellist, illustrator, animated film director, and children's book author. She is known for Persepolis, The Voices (2014) and Chicken with Plums (2011).
Known For
Complete Filmography
Art Spiegelman: Disaster Is My Muse
2025
as Self
Explores the life and career of cartoonist Art Spiegelman including the creation and ground-breaking impact of his Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic nove...
Dear Paris
2024
Writer, Director
What makes life worth living? In a set of interconnected stories, several Paris residents see their lives turned upside down when death knocks at thei...
The Soloists
2021
as Ava (voice)
In a small village ruled by ridiculous laws, three singing sisters and their dog rehearse for the Annual Autumn Festival. But an unexpected event will...
Radioactive
2020
Director
The story of Nobel Prize winner Marie Curie and her extraordinary scientific discoveries—through the prism of her marriage to husband Pierre—and the s...
Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché
2018
as Self
The epic life story of Alice Guy-Blaché (1873–1968), a French screenwriter, director and producer, true pioneer of cinema, the first person who made a...
The Voices
2014
Director
A mentally unhinged factory worker must decide whether to listen to his talking cat and become a killer, or follow his dog's advice to keep striving f...
The Gang of the Jotas
2013
as The Woman
The Gang of the Jotas is a wacky take on the famous suitcase mixup at the airport. Nils and Didier are arriving to the South of Spain to play in a bad...
The Gang of the Jotas
2013
Director, Screenplay
The Gang of the Jotas is a wacky take on the famous suitcase mixup at the airport. Nils and Didier are arriving to the South of Spain to play in a bad...
Chicken with Plums
2011
Director, Comic Book, Writer
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...
The French Kissers
2009
as La vendeuse du magasin de musique
An awkward adolescent boy and his angst-ridden friends try their best to fit in amongst a cast of varied characters.
The Hidden Side of Persepolis
2008
as Self
This 2007 behind-the-scenes documentary on the making of PERSEPOLIS features interviews with codirectors Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud as they...
Persepolis
2007
Director, Story, Comic Book
In 1970s Iran, Marjane 'Marji' Satrapi watches events through her young eyes and her idealistic family of a long dream being fulfilled of the hated Sh...