Golshifteh Farahani
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- 10 July 1983 · 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.
Known for
Acting 74
- 2026One Minute to Midnight as Tina
- 2026Matchbox the Movie as Robbie
- 2026Dog my Cats! as (voice)
- 2026Les Clochettes de Kaboul as Leila
- 2026Extraction 3 as Nik Khan
- 2026The Thing That Hurts
- 2026A Woman's Life
- 2026Conference of the Birds
- 2025Oh, What Happy Days!
- 2025Alpha as Mother
- 2025William Tell as Suna
- 2024Reading Lolita in Tehran as Azar Nafisi
- 2024Schirkoa: In Lies We Trust as 242B (voice)
- 2024Sinjar, naissance des fantômes as Narrator (voix)
- 2024Can Creativity Save the World? as Self
- 2024Free to Create - Artists in Exile as Herself
- 2023Hood Witch as Nour
- 2023Woman, Life, Freedom: An Iranian Revolution as Self
- 2023Extraction 2 as Nik Khan
- 2023Coldplay: Music of the Spheres - Live at River Plate as Self
- 2022Romantique as Salomé
- 2022My Father's Dragon as Dela Elevator (voice)
- 2022Coldplay: Music of the Spheres - Live Broadcast from Buenos Aires as Self
- 2022Brother and Sister as Faunia Vuillard
- 2021Cocorica as (voice)
- 2020Extraction as Nik Khan
- 2020Arab Blues as Selma
- 2019Blind Spot as Elham
- 2019The Song of Scorpions as Nooran
- 2019The Upside as Maggie
- 2018The Night Eats the World as Sarah
- 2018Girls of the Sun as Bahar
- 2017Christmas & Co. as Amélie
- 2017Shelter as Lina/Mona
- 2017Behrouz: A Legend on Screen as Self
- 2017Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales as Shansa
- 2016Paterson as Laura
- 2016Go Home as Nada
- 2016Mehrjui: The Forty-Year Report as Self
- 2016Sophie's Misfortunes as Madame de Réan
- 2016Finding Altamira as Conchita
- 2015Two Friends as Mona
- 2015Keepers of the Covenant: Making 'Exodus: Gods and Kings' as Self
- 2014Exodus: Gods and Kings as Nefertari
- 2014Eden as Yasmin
- 2014Rosewater as Maryam
- 2014My Sweet Pepper Land as Govend
- 2013Just Like a Woman as Mona
- 2013The Patience Stone as The woman
- 2012The Rule of Three as Marie
- 2011Chicken with Plums as Irâne
- 2011There Be Dragons as Leila
- 2011If You Die, I'll Kill You as Sibe
- 2009About Elly as Sepideh
- 2009Shirin
- 2008Body of Lies as Aisha
- 2008The Wall as Setareh
- 2008There's Always a Woman in Between
- 2007To Each His Own Cinema as Woman in Cinema (segment: Where Is My Romeo?)
- 2007Where Is My Romeo?
- 2007The Music Man as Hanieh
- 2007The Fish Fall in Love as Touka
- 2006Bab'Aziz as Nour
- 2006M for Mother as Sepideh
- 2006Half Moon as Niwemang
- 2006In the Name of the Father as Habibe
- 2006The Disgraced as Maryam
- 2004The Tear of the Cold as Ronak
- 2003Two Angels as Azar
- 2003Somewhere Else
- 2003Boutique as Eti
- 2002Zamaneh as Zamaneh
- 2000Seven Acts
- 1998The Pear Tree as M