Setareh Pesyani

About Setareh Pesyani

Setareh Pesyani is an Iranian actress from a theatre family. Her father is the actor and director Atila Pesyani, her mother Fatemeh Naghavi is also an actress, and her grandmother was the actress Jamileh Sheikhi.

Pesyani was on stage at five, in a play directed by her father, and directed a children's play herself as a teenager. She first appeared in cinema as a child in 1991. As an adult she appeared in films and series such as Unfinished Narrations, Three Women, The Third Wave, Office No. 13 and No Men Allowed.

Recognition

Theatre has brought her several of her strongest awards. She won Best Actress at the 28th Fajr Theatre Festival for The House, and later the best actress statuette in the Iranian competition of the 36th Fajr Theatre Festival for Sad dar Sad. In cinema, her lead role in the war drama Yadoo earned an honorary diploma at the 39th Fajr Film Festival. She was nominated for the Crystal Simorgh for Best Supporting Actress for I'm Scared and Leather Jacket Man.

On Pardeh

Ten Pardeh titles feature Pesyani. The series Actor and Kankel are family dramas, and Criminal Persian Style (Eteraf Mikonam) is a mystery drama series. Among the films, Antique and Molotov Cocktail are comedies and Khane-ye Arvah mixes comedy with horror. Amphibious, Reza and The Warden (Sorkhpoost) are dramas, and No Men Allowed is one of her earlier screen comedies.

Biographical facts: Wikidata.

Shared cast credits

People credited in the same titles on Pardeh:

• پژمان جمشیدی · 4 shared titles
• Mani Haghighi · 3 shared titles
• احمد مهرانفر · 2 shared titles
• پری‌ناز ایزدیار · 2 shared titles
• هانیه توسلی · 2 shared titles
• Navid Mohammadzadeh · 2 shared titles