Iranian television actresses

Rahavard Farahani (Persian: رهاورد فراهانی; born 10 July 1983), known professionally as Golshifteh Farahani (گلشیفته فراهانی), is an Iranian and French actress. She is known for her performances in M for Mother (2006), Body of Lies (2008), About Elly (2009), The Patience Stone (2012), Paterson (2016), Girls of the Sun (2018), Extraction (2020) and its sequel Extraction 2 (2023), and Invasion (2021–present). She was nominated for the Most Promising Actress Award for The Patience Stone at the 2014 César Awards.

Maddison Jaizani is a British-Iranian actress and model. She is known for portraying Sophie de Clermont on Canal+ television series Versailles and Odessa in television series Into the Badlands.

Talayeh Ashrafi (Persian: طلایه اشرفی; born July 24, 1984) known professionally as Tala Ashe, is an Iranian-American actress. She is known for her roles on the television series Smash, American Odyssey, and As the World Turns, as well as her regular role as Zari Tomaz and Zari Tarazi on The CW superhero series Legends of Tomorrow.

Shiva Rose Afshar (born 1969) is an American actress, activist, blogger, and owner of a natural beauty-product line. She is the former wife for actor Dylan McDermott.

Mahnaz Afshar (Persian: مهناز افشار‎; born 10 June 1977) is an Iranian actress. She gained wide recognition in the record-breaking film Cease Fire.

Niki Karimi (Persian: نیکی کریمی‎; born November 10, 1971) is an Iranian actress, director, and screenwriter.

Mandana Jones is an Anglo-Persian actress best known for her role as prisoner Nikki Wade on the British television series, Bad Girls.

Shohreh Aghdashloo (Persian: شهره آغداشلو‎, ) (born Shohreh Vaziri-Tabar; May 11, 1952) is an Iranian-American actress. Following numerous starring roles on the stage, her first major film role was in The Report (Gozāresh) (1977) directed by Abbas Kiarostami, which won the Critics Award at the Moscow Film Festival. Her next film was Shatranje Bad (A Chess Game of the Wind [fa]), directed by Mohammad Reza Aslani, which screened at several film festivals. Both films were banned in her home country; but, in 1978, Aghdashloo won acclaim for her performance in Sooteh Delan (Broken-hearted), directed by Ali Hatami, which established her as one of Iran's leading actresses.

Leila Hatami (Persian: لیلا حاتمی‎ Leylā Hātamī; born October 1, 1972) is an Iranian actress. She is known for her work in Iranian cinema, including her performance in the Academy Award-winning film A Separation, for which she won the Silver Bear Award for Best Actress at the Berlin Film Festival.

Sepideh Moafi (Persian: سپیده معافی; born September 18, 1985) is an Iranian-American actress and singer. She is best known for her roles in The Deuce (2017–2019), The L Word: Generation Q (2019–2023), and Black Bird (2022).