Mahnaz Afshar
مهناز افشار
Afshar at the 2019 Fajr Film Festival
Born (1977-06-10) June 10, 1977
Tehran, Iran
OccupationActress
Years active1998–present
Spouse
Mohammad Yasin Ramin[1]
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(m. 2014; div. 2019)​
Children1

Mahnaz Afshar (Persian: مهناز افشار; born June 10, 1977) is an Iranian actress. She gained wide recognition in the record-breaking film Cease Fire (2006). Afshar is one of Iran's highest-paid actresses, She has received various accolades, including a Crystal Cymorgh, two Hafez Awards and an Iran's Film Critics and Writers Association Award.

Life and career

Afshar and Payman Maadi at the 37th Fajr Film Festival.

Afshar was born in Tehran, Iran. She graduated in natural science in high school. After graduation, one of her relatives who was the Theater Affairs Assistant in "Soureh" college introduced her to "Hannaneh" Art institute. Having studied video editions in the following years, she participated in the assembly job of "Ketāb-e Avval as a Golddigger" training materials, directed by Dariush Mehrjui.

Later on, she was invited by Shamsi Fazlollahi to act in a TV series called Gomshodeh (Lost) directed by Masoud Navabi, making her first official play in the TV industry. Her professional career continued by acting in a movie called "Doostan" (Friends) directed by Abdollah Eskandari. The film, however, was not released in movie theaters due to complications with the authorities regarding the story and morals of the film.[2]

Her first official appearance as an actress in the cinema industry debuted in a work called "Shour-e Eshgh" (Passion of Love), which received positive reviews by audiences and critics of the time. Having gained substantial fame for her act, she later appeared in "Atash-bas" (Ceasefire), a major hit and "Salad-e Fasl" (Season Salad).

Afshar is one of the judges of Persia's Got Talent, a franchise of the British talent show Got Talent, which is aired on MBC Persia.[3][4]

Afshar wrote on Twitter in October 2019 that she and Yasin Ramin had divorced. ”Each person, strong or weak, has an existence. But when you decide to be a single mum, you have to have two existences. You have to be strong for yourself and your child."[5] In October 2022 Afshar participated in an anti-Islamic Republic demonstration in Germany but she was asked to leave the spot by angry demonstrators because of her former ties with Iran's regime.

Filmography

Film

Year Title Role Director Notes
1999 Friends Sara Ali Shah Hatami
2000 The Young Lions Leila Mohsen Mohseni Nasab
2001 The Passion of Love Sahar Nader Moghaddas
Gray Bita Mehrdad Mir Fallah
2002 Gem Neda Asghar Hashemi
A Girl in Cage Narges Ghodratollah Solh Mirzayi
2003 Poisonous Honey Sharareh Ebrahim Sheibani
2004 Coma Maryam Arash Moayerian
13 Cats on the Roof Leila Ali Abdolalizadeh
2005 Season Salad Mehr Angiz Fereydoun Jeyrani
Aquarium Shirin Iraj Ghaderi
2006 Men at Work Sahar Mani Haghighi
Cease Fire Sayeh Tahmineh Milani
Who Killed Amir? Marjan Mehdi Karampour
Trap Nazanin Sirous Alvand
2007 The Trial Negar Iraj Ghaderi
The Boss Tala Masoud Kimiai
Kalagh Par Sara Sharam Shah Hosseini
2008 Reflection Nasim Reza Karimi
Invitation Shaida Ebrahim Hatamikia
Shirin Woman in audience Abbas Kiarostami
Tonight is the Moonlight Night Sahar Hadi Karimi
2009 The Day Goes and the Night Comes Foujan Rahaei Omid Bonakdar, Keyvan Alimohammadi
Poopak and Mash Mashallah Poopak Farzad Motamen
2010 Pay Back Sara Tahmineh Milani
Memory Parichehr Nader Tarighat
Eve's Daughter, Adam's Son Mina Rambod Javan
The Third Floor Young Lady Bijan Mirbagheri
2011 Fairy Tale Sarvin Fereydoun Jeyrani
Felicity Land Laleh Maziar Miri
2012 A Simple Love Story Gandom Saman Moghaddam
Wooden Bridge Shirin Mehdi Karampour
The Snow on the Pines Roya Payman Moaadi
2013 No Where, No Body Sanaz Ebrahim Sheibani
From Tehran to Paradise Ghazal Abolfazl Saffary
Good to Be Back Houri Yasaman Dariush Mehrjui
2014 Metropole Khatoon Masoud Kimiai
Alien Sepideh Bahram Tavakoli
Teacher Hedieh Naser Saeidaf
2015 Sperm Whale Rouya Saman Moghaddam
2016 A House on 41st Street Forough Hamidreza Ghorbani
Delighted Tina Abdolreza Kahani
2017 I Want to Dance Maryam Bahman Farman Ara
Gilda Gilda Omid Bonakdar, Keyvan Alimohammadi
2018 Sperm Whale 2: Roya's Selection Roya Saman Moghaddam
Axing Niloufar Behrouz Shoeibi
Pig Herself Mani Haghighi
Los Angeles Tehran Ayda Tina Pakrevan
2019 The Agitation Darya Fereydoun Jeyrani
Suddenly a Tree Mahtab Safi Yazdanian
Oath Razia Mohsen Tanabandeh
Hotel New Moon Noushin Takefumi Tsutsui
Kingslayer Ayda Vahid Amirkhani
Blue Like the Color of the Sky Herself Amir Rafiee

Web

Year Title Role Director Platform
2015 Love is Not Closed Nafas Bijan Birang distributed in Video CD
2016 The Romance Gisou Barazandeh Manouchehr Hadi
2018 Golshifteh Raheleh Golshifteh Behrouz Shoeibi

Television

Year Title Role Director Notes Network
1998 Lost Sahar Masoud Navabi TV series IRIB TV1
2013 Red Hat Herself Iraj Tahmasb TV program IRIB TV2
2020–present Persia's Got Talent Judge Talent show MBC Persia

References

  1. ↑ AlMahnaz AlAfshar and her mother in law, father in law and daughter
  2. ↑ "MEN AT WORK - Buy Foreign Film DVDs - Watch Indie Films Online - Purchase Foreign Films - Stream Indie Films". www.filmmovement.com.
  3. ↑ Faghihi, Rohollah (13 December 2019). "Has Iran's award-winning actress left Iran to escape prosecution?". Al-Monitor. Retrieved 29 January 2020.
  4. ↑ "Judging Iranian actress in a remake, Los Angeles + Video". mbs.news.
  5. ↑ Mahnaz Afshar divorced Yasin Ramin
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