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 Ab...
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Complete Filmography

Alpha
2025
as Maman
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.

William Tell
2025
as Suna
The narrative unfolds in the 14th Century, when the European nations vie for supremacy within the Holy Roman Empire. The ambitious Austrian Empire, de...

Reading Lolita in Tehran
2024
as Azar Nafisi
As Islamic morality squads stage arbitrary raids in Tehran and as fundamentalists seize hold of the universities, Azar Nafisi, an inspired teacher, se...

Schirkoa: In Lies We Trust
2024
as 242B (voice)
In a sophisticated near perfect society, citizens live with paper bags on heads to dissolve differences. Tensions rise when the whispers of a mythical...

Sinjar, naissance des fantômes
2024
as Narrator (voix)

Hood Witch
2024
as Nour
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...

Can Creativity Save the World?
2024
as Self
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...
Free to Create - Artists in Exile
2024
as Herself
Artists forced to leave their country talk about the ambivalence of exile. With Iranian actress Golshifteh Farahani, Chinese artist Ai Weiwei, Sudanes...

Woman, Life, Freedom: An Iranian Revolution
2023
as Self
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 ...

Extraction 2
2023
as Nik Khan
Back from the brink of death, highly skilled commando Tyler Rake takes on another dangerous mission: saving the imprisoned family of a ruthless gangst...

Coldplay: Music of the Spheres - Live at River Plate
2023
as Self
Filmed during Coldplay’s sold out, ten night run at Buenos Aires’ River Plate stadium, this spectacular concert film features remixed sound and stunni...

Romantique
2022
as Salomé
After disappearing overnight, a man reappears and discovers that he is the father of a little girl. This time he will do his best.

My Father's Dragon
2022
as Dela Elevator (voice)
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...

Coldplay: Music of the Spheres - Live Broadcast from Buenos Aires
2022
as Self
Experience the stunning spectacle of Coldplay’s record-breaking Music Of The Spheres world tour at your local cinema with this spectacular worldwide l...

Brother and Sister
2022
as Faunia Vuillard
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...

Cocorica
2021
as (voice)
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...

Extraction
2020
as Nik Khan
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...

Arab Blues
2020
as Selma
Selma, a psychoanalyst, deals with a cast of colorful new patients after returning home to Tunisia to open a practice.

Blind Spot
2019
as Elham
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....

The Song of Scorpions
2019
as Nooran
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...

The Upside
2019
as Maggie
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 ...

The Night Eats the World
2018
as Sarah
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...

Girls of the Sun
2018
as Bahar
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...

Christmas & Co.
2017
as Amélie
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 ...

Shelter
2017
as Lina/Mona
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...

Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales
2017
as Shansa
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...

Paterson
2016
as Laura
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...

Go Home
2016
as Nada
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...

Mehrjui: The Forty-Year Report
2016
as Self
Mehrjui: The Forty-Year Report dives into the artistic world of Iranian director Dariush Mehrjui. The film offers critical interpretations of his work...

Sophie's Misfortunes
2016
as Madame de Réan
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...

Finding Altamira
2016
as Conchita
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...

Two Friends
2015
as Mona
Mona, a prisoner on work release, meets Clément, a shy actor. Desperate to impress Mona, Clément recruits his extroverted friend, Abel, to help. When ...

Keepers of the Covenant: Making 'Exodus: Gods and Kings'
2015
as Self
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 ...

Exodus: Gods and Kings
2014
as Nefertari
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...

Eden
2014
as Yasmin
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 ...

Rosewater
2014
as Maryam
In 2009, Iranian Canadian journalist Maziar Bahari was covering Iran's volatile elections for Newsweek. One of the few reporters living in the country...

My Sweet Pepper Land
2014
as Govend
Baran, a war hero, becomes sheriff of the capital and refuses to bow down to a tribal chief.

Just Like a Woman
2013
as Mona
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, ...

The Patience Stone
2013
as The woman
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,...

The Rule of Three
2012
as Marie
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...

Chicken with Plums
2011
as Irâne
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...

There Be Dragons
2011
as Leila
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...

If You Die, I'll Kill You
2011
as Sibe
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 ...

About Elly
2009
as Sepideh
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...

Shirin
2009
A hundred and fourteen famous Iranian theater and cinema actresses and a French star: mute spectators at a theatrical representation of Khosrow and Sh...

Body of Lies
2008
as Aisha
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...

The Wall
2008
as Setareh
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...

There's Always a Woman in Between
2008
A couple who had a romantic marriage and life now are about to get divorce but meanwhile many people are intervening.

To Each His Own Cinema
2007
as Woman in Cinema (segment: Where Is My Romeo?)
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...

Where Is My Romeo?
2007
Various Iranian women watch Romeo and Juliet and cry.

The Music Man
2007
as Hanieh
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...

The Fish Fall in Love
2007
as Touka
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...

Bab'Aziz
2006
as Nour
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...

M for Mother
2006
as Sepideh
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...

Half Moon
2006
as Niwemang
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 ...

In the Name of the Father
2006
as Habibe
This is about a father and his daughter who has been injured from the mines from Iran-Iraq war.

The Disgraced
2006
as Maryam
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...

The Tear of the Cold
2004
as Ronak
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...

Two Angels
2003
as Azar
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...

Somewhere Else
2003
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...

Boutique
2003
as Eti
A clothing store worker (Jahan) meets a poor girl named Eti. Jahan tries to help the girl and solve her problems, but…

Zamaneh
2002
as Zamaneh
Zamane and Saeid are neighbors. Despite their own arrangements to get married, their families are against this marriage. Zamane’s family’s reason for ...

Seven Acts
2000
Four young men come together to solve their financial Problems.

The Pear Tree
1998
as M
A man contemplates life and compares it to a pear tree in his yard which stops producing fruit.
The Thing That Hurts
N/A
The patients of a recently deceased American psychotherapist remember her.
Les Clochettes de Kaboul
N/A
La Vie d'une Femme
N/A
The life of Gabrielle, head of surgery in Paris, married, childless
Conference of the Birds
N/A
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...