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Narges Rashidi
Rashidi in February 2016
Born	Narges Rashidi 1980 (age 43–44) Tehran, Iran
Occupation	Actress
Years active	2004–present
Height	1.73 m (5 ft 8 in)
Spouse	Christian Straka

Narges Rashidi (Persian: نرگس رشیدی; born 1980) is an American-German actress of Iranian descent.

Early life

Rashidi was born in Tehran, Iran. Her father was an army colonel and her mother is a housewife. She lived in Tehran at the time of the Iran–Iraq War.

Rashidi moved with her family to Turkey and then Germany when she was seven. She grew up in Bad Hersfeld, Germany. She was introduced to acting by the summer theatre festivals in the town.

Career

Rashidi has appeared in many independent films and television productions, 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."

Rashidi plays Lale in the 2020 British TV series Gangs of London. 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.

Personal life

Rashidi lives in Los Angeles. She is married to Christian Straka, a former professional tennis player. She speaks Persian and German.

Filmography

Film

Television

Awards

• Best Breakthrough Actress award, A2Z, New York Independent International Film & Video Festival, 2007.

References

1. ^ Sommer, Ariane (23 March 2015). "Keine Lust auf "Migrationshintergrund"" [No desire for "migration background"]. Die Welt (in German). Archived from the original on 15 June 2023. Retrieved 15 June 2023.
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3. ^ Laing, Sarah (January 20, 2017). "Going to a dark place with rising star Narges Rashidi". ELLE Canada. Archived from the original on 2024-03-04. Retrieved 2024-09-18.
4. ^ Brown, Emma (2016-10-13). "Narges Rashidi". Interview Magazine. Archived from the original on 2023-09-29. Retrieved 2024-09-18.
5. "German summer festivals led Narges Rashidi into acting". USA Today. November 14, 2016. Archived from the original on 2016-11-17. Retrieved 2024-09-18.
6. Variety Staff (2016-01-30). "Sundance: 19 Biggest Breakthrough Performances". Variety. Archived from the original on 2023-08-14. Retrieved 2017-03-12.
7. Hadadi, Roxana (2022-12-01). "Gangs of London Won't Hold Anything Back". Vulture. Archived from the original on 2024-06-10. Retrieved 2024-09-18.
8. Bamigboye, Baz (2024-06-25). "Breaking Baz: Narges Rashidi & Joseph Fiennes Cast In Under-Wraps BBC Drama About Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe's Six-Year Iranian Prison Ordeal & Husband's Tireless Campaign To Free Her". Deadline. Archived from the original on 2024-06-28. Retrieved 2024-09-18.
9. "New York Film and Video Festival". 2007-04-24. Archived from the original on 2007-04-24. Retrieved 2017-03-12.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)

External links

• Narges Rashidi at IMDb
• Narges Rashidi on Facebook

• 21st-century German actresses
• Iranian diaspora film people
• People from Tehran
• Iranian emigrants to Germany
• German expatriate actresses in the United States
• Living people
• 1980 births
• Iranian emigrants to the United States