Golshifteh Farahani

Known for ActingBorn 1983-07-10 (age 43)Tehran, Iran

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.Read more

Movies & web series

Two Angels

Sinjar, naissance des fantômes

Coldplay: Music of the Spheres - Live Broadcast from Buenos Aires

Coldplay: Music of the Spheres - Live at River Plate

Woman, Life, Freedom: An Iranian Revolution

The Song of Scorpions

M for Mother

Surge

Extraction 2

About Elly

Reading Lolita in Tehran

Extraction

Invasion

The Upside

Paterson

Bab'Aziz

Free to Create - Artists in Exile

My Father's Dragon

Girls of the Sun

My Sweet Pepper Land

The Patience Stone

Boutique

Chicken with Plums

The Music Man

Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales

The Pear Tree

Body of Lies

To Each His Own Cinema

Half Moon

Rosewater

Alpha

Christmas & Co.

William Tell

If You Die, I'll Kill You

Arab Blues

Shirin

Hood Witch

The Night Eats the World

Rule of Three

The Fish Fall in Love

Exodus: Gods and Kings

Finding Altamira

Two Friends

Keepers of the Covenant: Making 'Exodus: Gods and Kings'

Eden

Schirkoa: In Lies We Trust

In the Name of the Father

Just Like a Woman