Narges Rashidi

Narges Rashidi (Persian: نرگس رشیدی) is an American-German actress of Iranian descent.[1] She was born in Iran where her father was an army colonel. In 1987 she settled with her family in Turkey. A year later the family moved to Germany, where she grew up and studied acting.[2] She has lived primarily in Los Angeles since 2005.

Narges Rashidi
Rashidi at the U.S. Embassy Berlin during salute to the Berlinale 15.2.2016
Born	Narges Rashidi (1980-03-21) 21 March 1980 Khorramabad, Iran
Occupation	Actress
Years active	2004–present
Height	1.73 m (5 ft 8 in)
Spouse	Christian Straka

Rashidi has appeared in many independent films and television productions,starting with the experimental film Venussian Tabutasco by Daryush Shokof in 2004 and primarily in Germany. She received widespread acclaim for her starring role in the 2016 film Under the Shadow by Babak Anvari, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival. Variety cited her as "a favorite breakthrough performance" at Sundance. The magazine hailed her "intense yet fine-grained work... as a fiercely intelligent, progressive-minded Iranian woman infuriated by the direction of her country since the Islamic Revolution," noting "Rashidi plays her character like a musical instrument going slowly out of tune; it’s a performance rich in both motherly love and scream-queen abandon."[3]