Golshifteh Farahani (Persian: گلشیفته فراهانی; born Rahavard Farahani July 10, 1983 in Tehran, Iran) is an Iranian-French actress.
She was brought to international attention with films such as About Elly. She was also nominated for the Most Promising Actress Award for The Patience Stone at the 2014 César Awards. In recent years, she's had prominent roles in movies by well-known directors, including Asghar Farhadi, Bahman Ghobadi, Rasool Mollagholipoor, Jim Jarmusch, Ridley Scott, Joachim Rønning and Espen Sandberg.
She's banned from returning to and working in Iran since 2009, for having played in Body of Lies (seen by Iranian authorities as "collaboration with American propaganda") and for appearing nude in several films and magazines. Ever since she's resided in France, and has dual citizenship.
Her filmography includes:
- Body of Lies (2008) as Aïsha
- About Elly (2009) as Sepideh
- Exodus: Gods and Kings (2014) as Nefertari
- Paterson (2016) as Laura
- Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales (2017) as Shansa
- The Breadwinner (2018) as Parvana (voice role, French dub)
- The Night Eats the World (2018) as Sarah
- gen:LOCK (2019-) as Yasamin "Yaz" Madrani (voice role)
- The Upside (2019) as Maggie
- Arab Blues (2019) as Selma Derwish
- Extraction (2020) as Nik Khan
- Extraction 2 (2023)
- Invasion (2021) as Aneesha Malik
- My Father's Dragon (2022) as Dela Elevator (voice role)
