Shohreh Aghdashloo
Shohreh Aghdashloo was born in Tehran, Tehran Province, Iran on May 11th, 1952 and is the Movie Actress. At the age of 71, Shohreh Aghdashloo biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, movies, TV shows, and networth are available.
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Career
Aghdashloo first appeared in a dramatic version of the book The Narrow Road to the Deep North (1973). Aghdashloo made her American debut in 1989 as a co-star in Guests of Hotel Astoria. In a guest appearance in a two-hour episode of the NBC television series Matlock's "Nowhere to Turn: A Matlock Mystery Movie," she made her television debut on September 25, 1990. Aghdashloo appeared on screen sporadically, including in Kamshad Kooshan's widely circulated Surviving Paradise (2000), written and directed by Kamshad Kooshan.
Aghdashloo was in 2001 opposite Ben Kingsley and Jennifer Connelly in director Vadim Perelman's House of Sand and Fog, for which she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. Aghdashloo played Dina Araz, a jihadist undercover in Los Angeles as a well-to-do housewife and mother after this introduction. Aghdashloo said that although she had previously opposed reinforcing the image of Muslims as terrorists, the flexibility and complexity of the role persuaded her to accept it. Hamid Naficy, an Iranian film scholar, slammed Aghdashloo's appearance in "the sensationalist film The Stoning of Soraya M" as "discredit[ing] her promise not to appear in films that stereotype Middle Easterners, including Iranians." Aghdashloo made guest appearances on several well-known television shows, including Will & Grace, ER, and Grey's Anatomy, in the months that followed. She has appeared in films including X-Men: Dr. Kavita Rao, The Lake House, The Nativity Story as Elizabeth, and The Traveling Pants 2.
Aghdashloo performed as a principal judge at the second annual Noor Iranian Film Festival in Los Angeles in 2008, when she also appeared in the film The Stoning of Soraya M., marking her first leading role in a feature-length American film. In the same year, she also appeared in the HBO original miniseries House of Saddam, where she received the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Limited Series or Movie. On September 12, 2009, Aghdashloo, author Dr. Azar Nafisi, and Dr. Dwight Bashir, Associate Director for International Religious Freedom, expressed their dissatisfaction with human rights in Iran and the persecution of Bahár Jews in Iran. Aghdashloo's talk in particular was broadcast on YouTube. During its first annual gala on October 9, 2010, the Public Affairs Alliance of Iranian Americans named Aghdashloo their Career Achievement Award.
Agdashloo continues to act in films ranging from The Odd Life of Timothy Green, Septembers of Shiraz, and Star Trek Beyond; as well as television, guest stars on series such as House, M.D., The Simpsons, and NCIS. She appeared in Mass Effect 2, Mass Effect 3, Destiny and Destiny 2; and narrated Khaled Hosseini's audiobook "The Mountains Echoed."
Aghdashloo appeared in Amazon Prime Video's acclaimed television series The Expanse as UN Deputy Undersecretary of Executive Administration Chrisjen Avasarala, a "smart and passionate member of a civil family lineage with a long line of a political lineage who has risen to the top of the Earth's highest ranks without ever standing for office."
Other awards
- 2007: Arpa Career Achievement Award
- 2013: Noor Iranian Film Festival Achievement Award