Susan Taslimi
Susan Taslimi is an Iranian actress, film director, theatre director, and screenwriter. She emigrated from Iran in 1987, now living and working in Sweden.Biography
Born in Rasht in 1950, she is the first non-European to play the lead role on a national theater stage in Sweden.
She graduated in theater and acting from the Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Tehran. She started film acting with Bahram Bayzai's Ballad of Tara in 1979.Filmography (as an actress)
Films
- Ballad of Tara as Tara
- Death of Yazdgerd as The Miller's wife
- Sarbedaran as Fatemeh
- Madian
- Telesm as Shazdeh's bride
- Bashu, the Little Stranger as Naii
- Perhaps Some Other Time
- Gränsen as Aisha
- En dag i taget as Kia
- Orka! Orka! as Schole
- The Charmer as Leila
Theatre
- Medea - Medea
- Death of Yazdgerd - The Miller's wife
Filmography (as a director)
- Hus i helvete
- Orka! Orka!.
- Det epileptiska riktmärket.
- Älskar, älskar och älskar.
- Häktet
Personal life
- Her father, Khosro Taslimi, is a film producer.
- Her mother, Monireh Taslimi, was an actress.
- Her brother, Cyrous Taslimi, is an actor and film producer.
- Her ex-husband, Dariush Farhang, is a film director.
