Shohreh AghdashlooFilmography

Born:: May 11, 1952 in Tehran, Iran
Occupation:: Actor
Birth name:: Pari Varziri-Tabar
Biography:: An Iranian actress whose strong political beliefs almost led her to a career as a journalist, Shohreh Aghdashloo decided instead that she could reach more people by working in film and theater -- and with her Oscar-nominated role in the tragedy House of Sand and Fog, she found an audience the size...Read More

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The Stoning of Soraya M.

Actors: Shohreh Aghdashloo, Mozhan Marnò, James Caviezel, Bita Sheibani, Ali Pourtash, Parviz Sayyad, David Diaan

Synopsis: Director Cyrus Nowrasteh teams with screenwriter Betsy Giffen Nowrasteh to illuminate the dangers of religious fundamentalism, gender apartheid, and mob rule with this fictionalized adaptation of Freidoune Sahebjam's best-selling novel centering on a true-life tragedy. The story takes place in Read More

6/26/09
The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2

Actors: Amber Tamblyn, Alexis Bledel, America Ferrera, Blake Lively, Rachel Nichols

Synopsis: The 2008 sequel to the female buddy film The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants constitutes an adaptation of Ann Brashares' novel Forever in Blue: The Fourth Summer of the Sisterhood. Like the premier installment, this picture explores the seriocomic events that unfold one summer in the lives of Read More

8/8/08
House of Saddam

Actors: Igal Naor, Makram Khoury, Shohreh Aghdashloo, Philip Arditti, Mounir Margoum, Saïd Taghmaoui, Amr Waked

Synopsis: In this HBO miniseries from directors Jim O'Hanlon and Alex Holmes (who also co-wrote and executive produced), the events of late Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein's life are retold from a perspective never before seen - the ever-shrinking inner circle of his once-mighty regime. The story opens in Read More

2008
Grey's Anatomy: Scars and Souvenirs

Synopsis: Recovering from her near-death experience, Meredith (Ellen Pompeo) is convinced that her outlook on life has completely changed. More and more candidates are vying for the chief-of-surgery position soon to be vacated by Webber (James Pickens Jr.), among them handsome doctor Colin Marlow (Roger Read More

2007
The Nativity Story

Actors: Keisha Castle-Hughes, Oscar Isaac, Hiam Abbass, Shaun Toub, Alexander Siddig

Synopsis: Australian-born Whale Rider sensation and Oscar nominee Keisha Castle-Hughes stars opposite Oscar Isaac in Lords of Dogtown director Catherine Hardwicke's dramatic account of the Annunciation, and the arduous journey of Mary and Joseph to give birth to baby Jesus. House of Sand and Fog's Shohreh Aghdashloo Read More

12/1/06
The Lake House

Actors: Keanu Reeves, Sandra Bullock, Dylan Walsh, Shohreh Aghdashloo, Christopher Plummer

Synopsis: Two people develop an unusual relationship that bends the boundaries of time and place in this romantic fantasy. Kate Forster (Sandra Bullock) is a doctor who lives in a beautiful home by a lake. Forced to move elsewhere, she requests that any correspondence that arrives at the lake house be Read More

6/16/06
X-Men: The Last Stand

Actors: Hugh Jackman, Halle Berry, Ian McKellen, Famke Janssen, Anna Paquin

Synopsis: The explosive X-Men motion picture trilogy officially draws to a close with this release that finds Rush Hour director Brett Ratner stepping in for Bryan Singer to tell the tale of a newly discovered mutant "cure," and the polarizing effect it has on mutant/man relations. With the pressure on Read More

5/24/06
American Dreamz

Actors: Dennis Quaid, Hugh Grant, Mandy Moore, Willem Dafoe, Chris Klein

Synopsis: The President of the United States (Dennis Quaid) seems to be having a nervous breakdown after picking up a newspaper for the first time in four years, and when his Chief of Staff (Willem Dafoe) determines to get the Commander in Chief out of his pajamas and back into the spotlight, the stage is Read More

4/21/06
Smith [TV Series]

Actors: Ray Liotta, Virginia Madsen, Simon Baker, Amy Smart, Johnny Lee Miller

Synopsis: Executive-produced by ER and West Wing veteran John Wells, the weekly serialized drama series Smith focused on a group of highly skilled professional thieves, who covered their tracks by living normal, above-suspicion lives between heists. There was actually no character named "Smith"; this was Read More

2006
The Exorcism of Emily Rose

Actors: Laura Linney, Tom Wilkinson, Campbell Scott, Jennifer Carpenter, Colm Feore

Synopsis: In this blend of psychological thriller and courtroom drama, Emily Rose (Jennifer Carpenter) is a 19-year-old college student who begins displaying bizarre and troubling behavior; as her actions become increasingly destructive and shocking, Emily begins speaking in strange tongues and destroys Read More

9/9/05
24: Season 04

Actors: Kiefer Sutherland, William Devane, Alberta Watson, Nestor Serrano, Shohreh Aghdashloo

Synopsis: Season four of the wildly successful "real-time" adventure series 24 begins some 18 months at the end of season three. John Keeler (Geoff Pierson) has succeeded David Palmer (Dennis Haysbert) as president of the United States, and the new secretary of defense is James Heller (William Devane) Read More

2005
House of Sand and Fog

Actors: Jennifer Connelly, Ben Kingsley, Ron Eldard, Shohreh Aghdashloo, Jonathan Ahdout, Frances Fisher

Synopsis: Russian filmmaker Vadim Perelman makes his feature-film debut with the psychological drama House of Sand and Fog, based on the novel by Andre Dubus III. Ben Kingsley plays Massoud Amir Behrani, an Iranian immigrant living the United States. Even though he was a high-ranking official in Iran, he Read More

12/19/03
Maryam

Actors: Mariam Parris, Shaun Toub, Shohreh Aghdashloo

Synopsis: Ramin Serry explores such issues as global politics, ideological conflict, and puberty in this coming-of-age film about being an Iranian-American teenager during the Islamic Revolution in 1979. Maryam (Mariam Parris) longs to be just a normal New Jersey 16-year-old, but her traditionalist father Read More

2/22/02
Mystic Iran: The Unseen World

Synopsis: Persian-born filmmaker Aryana Farshad directs and stars in the hour-long documentary Mystic Iran: The Unseen World. At a risk to her personal safety, Farshad took a camera crew into remote areas of Iran to document various religious and traditional events. This film captures her travels throughout Read More

2002
The Guests of the Hotel Astoria

Actors: Shohreh Aghdashloo, Mohsen Marzban, Houshang Touzie, Kamran Nozad

Synopsis: A U.S./Netherland co-production, Guests of the Hotel Astoria is set in an Istanbul hotel that functions as a transit point between Iran and the Outside World. Shohren Aghadashloo and Mohsen Marzban play a young married couple hoping to secure exit visas to Cuba. Because the woman (Aghadashloo) has Read More

1989
Sutedelan

Actors: Behrooz Vosoughi, Jamshid Mashayekhi, Shohreh Aghdashloo

Synopsis: In order to protect his mentally retarded younger brother Majid (Behrooz Vosughi), and to see that he has a little happiness in his life, his older brother Habib Agha (Jamishid Mashayekhi) has made many sacrifices. He has even arranged for a prostitute to lead him to a sexual awakening. What he Read More

1977
Gozaresh

1977