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Farah with Iranian Boy Scouts in Paris, (c. 1956) Farah Diba was born on 14 October 1938 in Tehran to an upper-class family. [3] [4] [5] She was the only child of Captain Sohrab Diba (1899–1948) and his wife, Farideh Ghotbi (1920–2000).
The following is a list of Iranian actresses in alphabetical order. This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources .
Soraya in childhood with her mother, c. 1935 Soraya was the elder child and only daughter of Khalil Esfandiary-Bakhtiary (1901–1983), [1] a Bakhtiari nobleman and Iranian ambassador to West Germany in the 1950s, and his Russian-born German wife Eva Karl (1906–1994).
From 1941 to 1979, Iran was ruled by King Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the Shah. On February 11, 1979, the Islamic Revolution swept the country.
Tadj ol-Molouk (1896–1982; also known as Nimtâj Âyromlu), Queen of Iran; wife of Reza Shah and mother to Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi; Ashraf Pahlavi (1919–2016; also known as Ashraf ol-Molouk Pahlavi), princess; twin sister of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi; Fatemeh Pahlavi (1928–1987), the tenth child of Reza Shah Pahlavi
The 1960s brought us The Beatles, Bob Dylan, beehive hairstyles, the civil rights movement, ATMs, audio cassettes, the Flintstones, and some of the most iconic fashion ever. It was a time of ...
Sanaz Mazinani (born 1978), Iranian-Canadian photographer and curator, installation based photography; Shirin Neshat (born 1957), photos of women confronted by Islamic fundamentalism, later working with multimedia and film; Ashraf os-Saltaneh (1863–1914), first woman photographer of Iran; Shirana Shahbazi (born 1974), conceptual photography ...
Camila Batmanghelidjh, founder of London-based children's charity Kids Company; Reza Pahlavi, son of the deposed Shah of Iran, crown prince in exile. Shirin Ebadi, recipient of 2003 Nobel Peace Prize; Akbar Ganji, Iranian journalist and writer. He has been described as "Iran's preeminent political