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Narges Rashidi
German-Iranian actress From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Narges Rashidi (Persian: نرگس رشیدی; born 1980[1]) is an American-German actress of Iranian descent.
Early life
Rashidi was born in Khorramabad, Iran.[2] Her father was an army colonel and her mother is a housewife.[1] She lived in Tehran at the time of the Iran–Iraq War.[2][3]
Rashidi moved with her family to Turkey and then Germany when she was seven.[2] She grew up in Bad Hersfeld, Germany.[4] She was introduced to acting by the summer theatre festivals in the town.[5]
Career
Rashidi has appeared in many independent films and television productions,[3] starting with the experimental film Venussian Tabutasco by Daryush Shokof in 2004.
Rashidi received international recognition and 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."[6]
Rashidi plays Lale in the 2020 British TV series Gangs of London.[7] In June 2024, Deadline Hollywood reported that Rashidi had been cast alongside Joseph Fiennes in a BBC drama as Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe and her husband Richard Ratcliffe.[8]
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Personal life
Rashidi lives in Los Angeles.[2] She is married to Christian Straka, a former professional tennis player.[1] She speaks Persian and German.[4]
Filmography
Film
Television
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Awards
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External links
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