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.

Filmography

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

Appearances as themselves (13)

• Super Plan — Self - Guest
• 2024Can Creativity Save the World? — Self
• 2024Free to Create - Artists in Exile — Herself
• Beau geste — Self
• 2023Coldplay: Music of the Spheres - Live at River Plate — Self
• Faut Voir - L'Hebdo cinéma — Self - Guest
• 2023Woman, Life, Freedom: An Iranian Revolution — Self
• 2022Coldplay: Music of the Spheres - Live Broadcast from Buenos Aires — Self
• C ce soir — Self - Guest
• 2017Behrouz: A Legend on Screen — Self
• 2016Mehrjui: The Forty-Year Report — Self
• 2015Keepers of the Covenant: Making 'Exodus: Gods and Kings' — Self
• Cérémonie des César — Self - Presenter