About Me
Golshifte Farahani (born July 10, 1983 in Tehran) is an acclaimed Iranian actress. She is the daughter of actor/theater director Behzad Farahani and sister of actress Shaghayegh Farahani.Golshifteh Farahani started studying music and playing the piano at the age of 5. At 12, she entered a music school in Tehran. After graduation, she was accepted at the Vienna Conservatory. At the age of 14 she was cast as the lead in Dariush Mehrjui's The Pear Tree for which she won the Crystal Simorgh for Best Actress from the International Section of the 16th Fajr International Film Festival in Tehran. The win contributed to her decision to stay in Iran and choose a career in film over music. She never boarded the plane to Vienna. Since then she has acted in 16 films, many of which have received international awards. For Boutique she won the Best Actress award from the 26th Nantes Three Continents Festival (France). In recent years she has acted in movies by some of Iran's best directors: Dariush Mehrjui's controversial film the Santoor Player, Bahman Ghobadi's Half Moon (winner of the Golden Shell at the 2006 San Sebastian Film Festival) and the late Rasool Mollagholipoor's M for Mother (Iran's nominee for the 2008 Academy Awards for the Best Foreign Language Film category) for which she won the special prize of the jury for the Best Actress from the 37th Roshd International Film Festival.Filmography: 1997 Derakht-e Golabi (aka The Pear Tree), 2000 Haft Pardeh (aka Seven Acts), 2001 Zamaneh, 2002 Jayee Digar (aka Some other Place), 2003 Do Fereshteh (aka Two Angels), 2003 Boutique, 2004 Ashk-e Sarma (aka The Tear of the Cold), 2004 Bab Aziz, 2005 Mahi-ha Ashegh Mishavand (aka Fish Fall in Love), 2005 Be Nam-e Pedar (aka In the Name of The Father), 2006 Gis Borideh, 2006 Niwemang (aka Half Moon), 2007 Mim Mesle Madar (aka M like Mother), 2007 Santoori (aka The Santoor Player), 2007 Hamisheh Paye Yek Zan Dar Miyan Ast (aka Cherchez La Femme), 2007 Divar (aka The Wall).
