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Zahra Amir Ebrahimi (Persian: زهرا اميرابراهيمی; born July 9, 1981) known professionally as Zar Amir Ebrahimi (زر امیرابراهیمی), is an Iranian actress. She is best known for her performance in the crime thriller Holy Spider (2022), for which she won the Best Actress award at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival.

Zar Amir Ebrahimi
Amir Ebrahimi in 2016
Born	Zahra Amir Ebrahimi (1981-07-09) July 9, 1981 (age 41) Tehran, Iran
Citizenship	Iranian French
Alma mater	Azad University
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1999–present

Early life and career

Zahra Amir Ebrahimi was born on July 9, 1981 in Tehran, Iran. She studied theater in Azad University and started her professional career by making short films. She made her first short film when she was only eighteen.[1][2][3][4]

Ebrahimi became popular shortly after her first work in Iranian public television. She became well known in Iran for her role in the popular Iranian television series Nargess (2006). She is close friends with actress Golshifteh Farahani. Ebrahimi is also a professional photographer, whose work focuses on social topics and issues.

Because of the issues with the sex tape scandal, Ebrahimi was exiled from Iran in 2008.[5] She lives in Paris, France; and as of 2017 she is a French citizen.[5][6]

Controversy

In 2006, Ebrahimi became the center 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 forgery made by a vengeful former fiancé who used studio techniques to form a montage of incriminating images designed to destroy her career.[7] However, she later admitted that the tape depicted her and a boyfriend and had been stolen from their apartment.[5] The unnamed man on the tape reportedly fled to Armenia but was subsequently returned to Iran and charged with breach of public morality laws.[7] 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."[8]

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Director	Notes	Ref(s)
2001	Expectancy		Mohammad Nourizad		[9]
2006	Trip to Hidalou		Mojtaba Raie	Won Best Art & Experience Film at the 2006 Fajr Film Festival	[10]
2008	Shirin	Woman in Audience	Abbas Kiarostami	Premiered at the 2008 Venice International Film Festival	[11]
2009	Women Without Men		Shirin Neshat, Shoja Azari	Won the 2009 Venice International Film Festival Silver Lion for Best Direction	[12]
2015	A Souvenir for My Mother		Mohammad Reza Kalani	Short film	[13]
	Jila		Karim Lakzadeh	Short film	[14]
2016	Bride Price vs. Democracy	Vida	Reza Rahimi	Won – Best Lead Actress in a Foreign Language Film at the 2018 Nice International Film Festival	[15]
2017	Tehran Taboo	Sara	Ali Soozandeh	Premiered at the International Critics' Week section at the 2017 Cannes Film Festival	[16]
2019	Adopt a Daddy	Farzaneh Rezvani	Xavier de Choudens		[17]
	Tide	Alma	Manon Coubia	Short film Premiered at the 2019 Locarno Film Festival	[18]
	Tomorrow We Are Free	Nadia	Hossein Pourseifi	Premiered at the 2019 Filmfest Hamburg	[19]
2022	Holy Spider	Rahimi	Ali Abbasi	Won – Best Actress at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival	[20]
	White Paradise	Chehreh	Guillaume Renusson	Premiered at the 2022 Angoulême Film Festival	[21]
TBA	Please Rise	The Poet	Sheida Sheikhha	Short film
TBA	Shayda		Noora Niasari	Post-production	[22]

Television

Year	Title	Role	Director	Notes	Network	Ref(s)
2004	Vow		Mehrdad Khoshbakht	TV film	IRIB TV1	[23]
	Help Me		Ghasem Jafari	TV series	IRIB TV2	[24]
	As a Stranger		Ghasem Jafari	TV series	IRIB TV5	[25]
2006	Nargess	Zohreh Shokat	Siroos Moghaddam	TV series	IRIB TV3	[26]

Awards and nominations

Award	Year	Category	Nominated Work	Result	Ref.
Cannes Film Festival	2022	Best Actress	Holy Spider	Won	[27]
European Film Awards	2022	Best Actress	Holy Spider	Pending	[28]
Nice International Film Festival	2018	Best Lead Actress in a Foreign Language Film	Bride Price vs. Democracy	Won	[29]

References

External links

• Zar 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] Zar Amir Ebrahimi

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