Narges Rashidi
{{Short description|German-Iranian actress}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Narges Rashidi
| image = Narges Rashidi cropped.jpg
| image_size = 200px
| caption = Rashidi in February 2016
| birth_name = Narges Rashidi
| birth_date = {{Birth year and age|1980}}
| occupation = Actress
| years_active = 2004–present
| height = {{height|m=1.73}}
| spouse = Christian Straka
}}
Narges Rashidi ({{langx|fa|نرگس رشیدی}}; born 1980{{cite news |author1=Sommer |first=Ariane |date=23 March 2015 |title=Keine Lust auf "Migrationshintergrund" |trans-title=No desire for "migration background" |url=https://www.welt.de/vermischtes/prominente/article138686888/Keine-Lust-auf-Migrationshintergrund.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230615223121/https://www.welt.de/vermischtes/prominente/article138686888/Keine-Lust-auf-Migrationshintergrund.html |archive-date=15 June 2023 |access-date=15 June 2023 |work=Die Welt |language=German}}) is an American-German actress of Iranian descent.
Early life
Rashidi was born in Tehran, Iran. Her father was an army colonel and her mother is a housewife. She lived in Tehran at the time of the Iran–Iraq War.{{Cite web |last=Laing |first=Sarah |date=January 20, 2017 |title=Going to a dark place with rising star Narges Rashidi |url=https://www.ellecanada.com/culture/movies-and-tv/going-to-a-dark-place-with-rising-star-narges-rashidi |access-date=2024-09-18 |website=ELLE Canada |language=en |archive-date=2024-03-04 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240304221929/https://www.ellecanada.com/culture/movies-and-tv/going-to-a-dark-place-with-rising-star-narges-rashidi |url-status=live }}
Rashidi moved with her family to Turkey and then Germany when she was seven. She grew up in Bad Hersfeld, Germany.{{Cite web |last=Brown |first=Emma |date=2016-10-13 |title=Narges Rashidi |url=https://www.interviewmagazine.com/film/narges-rashidi |access-date=2024-09-18 |website=Interview Magazine |language=en-US |archive-date=2023-09-29 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230929144734/https://www.interviewmagazine.com/film/narges-rashidi |url-status=live }} She was introduced to acting by the summer theatre festivals in the town.{{Cite web |date=November 14, 2016 |title=German summer festivals led Narges Rashidi into acting |url=https://www.usatoday.com/videos/life/2016/11/14/93825918/ |access-date=2024-09-18 |website=USA Today |language=en-US |archive-date=2016-11-17 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161117225434/http://www.usatoday.com/videos/life/2016/11/14/93825918/ |url-status=live }}
Career
Rashidi has appeared in many independent films and television productions, starting with the experimental film Venussian Tabutasco by Daryush Shokof in 2004.
Rashidi received international recognition and widespread acclaim for her starring role in the 2016 film Under the Shadow by Babak Anvari, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival. Variety cited her as "a favorite breakthrough performance" at Sundance. The magazine hailed her "intense yet fine-grained work... as a fiercely intelligent, progressive-minded Iranian woman infuriated by the direction of her country since the Islamic Revolution," noting, "Rashidi plays her character like a musical instrument going slowly out of tune; it's a performance rich in both motherly love and scream-queen abandon."{{Cite news|url=https://variety.com/2016/film/festivals/sundance-breakthrough-performances-1201692891/|title=Sundance: 19 Biggest Breakthrough Performances|author=Variety Staff|date=2016-01-30|work=Variety|access-date=2017-03-12|language=en-US|archive-date=2023-08-14|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230814132534/https://variety.com/2016/film/festivals/sundance-breakthrough-performances-1201692891/|url-status=live}}
Rashidi plays Lale in the 2020 British TV series Gangs of London.{{Cite web |last=Hadadi |first=Roxana |date=2022-12-01 |title=Gangs of London Won’t Hold Anything Back |url=https://www.vulture.com/article/gangs-of-london-season-2-interview.html |access-date=2024-09-18 |website=Vulture |language=en |archive-date=2024-06-10 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240610135235/https://www.vulture.com/article/gangs-of-london-season-2-interview.html |url-status=live }} In June 2024, Deadline Hollywood reported that Rashidi had been cast alongside Joseph Fiennes in a BBC drama as Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe and her husband Richard Ratcliffe.{{Cite web |last=Bamigboye |first=Baz |date=2024-06-25 |title=Breaking Baz: Narges Rashidi & Joseph Fiennes Cast In Under-Wraps BBC Drama About Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe’s Six-Year Iranian Prison Ordeal & Husband’s Tireless Campaign To Free Her |url=https://deadline.com/2024/06/nazanin-zaghari-ratcliffe-bbc-narges-rashadi-joseph-fiennes-1235982075/ |access-date=2024-09-18 |website=Deadline |language=en-US |archive-date=2024-06-28 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240628124340/https://deadline.com/2024/06/nazanin-zaghari-ratcliffe-bbc-narges-rashadi-joseph-fiennes-1235982075/ |url-status=live }}
Personal life
Rashidi lives in Los Angeles.{{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2016/sep/29/terror-in-tehran-babak-anvari-under-the-shadow|title=Terror in Tehran: Under the Shadow and the politics of horror|last=Seymour|first=Tom|date=29 September 2016|work=The Guardian|access-date=17 September 2024|archive-date=18 September 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240918010852/https://www.theguardian.com/film/2016/sep/29/terror-in-tehran-babak-anvari-under-the-shadow|url-status=live}} She is married to Christian Straka, a former professional tennis player. She speaks Persian and German.
Filmography
=Film=
| class="wikitable sortable" |
| scope="col"| Year
!scope="col"| Title !scope="col"| Role !scope="col" class="unsortable" | Notes |
|---|
| rowspan="1"|2004
| | |
| rowspan="1"|2005
| Pregnant Woman | |
| rowspan="3"|2006
|Asudem | Girl | |
| A2Z
| | |
| Black Sheep
| Leo's Girlfriend | |
| rowspan="1"|2007
|Breathful | Fuss | |
| rowspan="1"|2008
| Persian Announcer | |
| rowspan="2"|2009
|Meeting Laura | Narges | Short film |
| Must Love Death
| Isabel | |
| rowspan="1"|2010
|NOS (auf dich) | Vina | Short film |
| rowspan="2"|2011
|Dating Lanzelot | Zibaa | |
| My Prince. My King
| Fatima | |
| rowspan="1"|2012
|Slave | Nurse | |
| rowspan="1"|2013
| Verkäuferin | |
| rowspan="1"|2015
|Von glücklichen Schafen | Elmas / mother | |
| rowspan="1"|2016
| Shideh | |
| rowspan="1"|2017
|Tigermilch | Noura Bashir | |
| rowspan="1"|2019
|The Manchador | Mina | Short film |
| 2025
| Helena | |
=Television=
| class="wikitable sortable" |
| scope="col"| Year
!scope="col"| Title !scope="col"| Role !scope="col" class="unsortable" | Notes |
|---|
| rowspan="1"|2006
|Die Geschichte Mitteldeutschlands |Orientalische Frau des Grafen von Gleichen |Episode: "Ehe zu dritt - Die Frauen des Grafen von Gleichen" |
| rowspan="1"|2007
|Nuran |Episode: "Fragen der Ehre" |
| rowspan="1"|2008
|Schimanski |Laura |Episode: "Schicht im Schacht" |
| rowspan="1"|2009
|Engel sucht Liebe |Ayse |TV movie |
| rowspan="2"|2012
|Ayshe |Episode: "Mord im Callcenter" |
| {{Ill|Geisterfahrer (film)|de|3=Geisterfahrer (Film)|lt=Geisterfahrer}}
|Faiza |TV movie |
| rowspan="1"|2013
|Nachtschicht |Dalida Abdullah |Episode: "Geld regiert die Welt" |
| rowspan="1"|2014–2015
|Banu |4 episodes |
| rowspan="2"|2015
|Sibel & Max |Elif |Episode: "Schief gewickelt" |
| {{ill|Too Young to Die (2015 film)|de|Zum Sterben zu früh|lt=Too Young to Die}}
|Dalida Medjoub |TV movie |
| rowspan="1"|2016–2018
|Never Too Late For Justice |Samira Vaziri |22 episodes |
| rowspan="2"|2017
|Darya Esford |5 episodes |
| Reich oder tot
|Dalida Medjoub |TV movie |
| rowspan="2"|2019
|Leila Nymann |Episode: "Sehnsucht" |
| Hanna
|Sima |2 episodes |
| rowspan="1"|2020- present
|Lale |20 episodes |
Awards
- Best Breakthrough Actress award, A2Z, New York Independent International Film & Video Festival, 2007.{{Cite web|url=http://www.nyfilmvideo.com/2007/la-march/awards/la-march-2007-awards.htm |title=New York Film and Video Festival |date=2007-04-24 |access-date=2017-03-12 |url-status=bot: unknown |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070424204701/http://www.nyfilmvideo.com/2007/la-march/awards/la-march-2007-awards.htm |archivedate=2007-04-24 }}
References
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External links
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- {{imdb name|1735235|Narges Rashidi}}
- {{Facebook|id=nargesrashidiofficial}}
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Category:21st-century German actresses
Category:Iranian diaspora film people
Category:Iranian emigrants to Germany