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Zahra Amir Ebrahimi (Persian: زهرا اميرابراهيمی, born 1981) is an Iranian actress and photographer. She is best known for her acting in Nargess (2006). She won Best Lead Actress in a Foreign Language Film at the 2018 Nice International Film Festival for Bride Price vs. Democracy (2016).[1]

Zahra Amir Ebrahimi
Amir Ebrahimi in 2016
Born	1981 (age 40–41) Tehran, Iran
Other names	Zar Amir Ebrahimi
Alma mater	Azad University
Occupation	Actress Photographer
Years active	1999–present

Early life and career

Ebrahimi studied theater in Tehran and started her professional life by making short movies. She made her first movie when she was only eighteen. She became very popular shortly after her first work in Iranian public TV. She was well known in Iran for her role in the popular Iranian soap opera Nargess, as a pious young woman.

Ebrahimi is also a professional photographer, whose work focuses on social topics and issues. She now lives in Paris.

Controversy

In 2006, Ebrahimi became the centre of an Iranian sex tape scandal when a videotape of a woman, claimed to be Ebrahimi, having sex with a man was leaked to the internet and released on DVD. She subsequently became the subject of an official investigation handled by Tehran's chief prosecutor, Saeed Mortazavi. In an interview with the Guardian, Ebrahimi denied being the woman in the film and dismissed it as a fake made by a vengeful former fiancé who used studio techniques to form a montage of incriminating images designed to destroy her career.[2] The unnamed man on the tape, who is suspected of releasing it, reportedly fled to Armenia but was subsequently returned to Iran and charged with breach of public morality laws.[2] Rumours of an attempted suicide were also denied by Ebrahimi with a public message: "I just want to tell my country's people that I am alive. I am thinking about the strength of Iranian women and will defend the respect of the girls and women of my nation."[3]

In an interview in 2019, Ebrahimi spoke about the incident. This time, she claimed that the video was taped and leaked by Majid Bahrami, a co-star in Nargess. The theater star confessed to the crime and was sentenced to 6 months in prison. Bahrami died from cancer a few years ago.

Ebrahimi reportedly now lives in France.[4] In 2019, In her interview with Chandshanabeh With Sina, an Iranian talk show, she admitted that she was in the sex tape.

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Director	Notes	Ref.
2001	Expectancy		Mohammad Nourizad
2006	Trip to Hidalou		Mojtaba Raie	won Best Art & Experience Film at the 2006 Fajr Film Festival
2008	Shirin	Woman in Audience	Abbas Kiarostami	screened at the 2008 Venice International Film Festival
2009	Women Without Men		Shirin Neshat, Shoja Azari	won the 2009 Venice International Film Festival Silver Lion for Best Direction
2015	A Souvenir for My Mother		Mohammad Reza Kalani	Short film
	Jila		Karim Lakzadeh	Short film
2016	Bride Price vs. Democracy	Vida	Reza Rahimi	won Best Lead Actress in a Foreign Language Film at the 2018 Nice International Film Festival
2017	Tehran Taboo	Sara	Ali Soozandeh	screened at the International Critics' Week section at the 2017 Cannes Film Festival
2019	Adopt a Daddy	Farzaneh Rezvani	Xavier de Choudens
	Tide	Alma	Manon Coubia	Short film nominated for Golden Pardino - Leopards of Tomorrow in International Competition at the 2019 Locarno Film Festival
	Tomorrow We Are Free	Nadia	Hossein Pourseifi	screened at the 2019 Filmfest Hamburg & 2019 Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival
2022	Holy Spider	Rahimi	Ali Abbasi	selected to compete for the Palme d'Or at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival
TBA	Please Rise	The Poet	Sheida Sheikhha	Short film
TBA	The Survivors	Chehreh	Guillaume Renusson
TBA	Shayda		Noora Niasari

Television

Year	Title	Role	Director	Notes	Network	Ref.
2004	Vow		Mehrdad Khoshbakht	TV film	IRIB TV1	[5]
	Help Me		Ghasem Jafari	TV series	IRIB TV2
	Strangely		Ghasem Jafari	TV series	IRIB TV5
2006	Nargess	Zohreh Shokat	Siroos Moghaddam	TV series	IRIB TV3

Awards and nominations

Award	Year	Category	Nominated Work	Result
Nice International Film Festival	2018	Best Lead Actress in a Foreign Language Film	Bride Price vs. Democracy	Won

References

External links

• Zahra Amir Ebrahimi at IMDb

На других языках

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[de] Sahra Amir Ebrahimi

Sahra Amir Ebrahimi (* 1981 im Iran; persisch زهرا اميرابراهيمی; auch Zahra Amir Ebrahimi und Zar Amir Ebrahimi) ist eine iranische Fernsehschauspielerin.

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- [en] Zahra Amir Ebrahimi

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