Royā Nonahāli Actress, Born 1964, Tehran

Tehran

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, Iran

Iran

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. Studied painting; worked in theatre since 1984 and started film acting with The Beloved Is at Home (1987, Khosrow Sinai

Khosrow Sinai

Khosrow Sinai is an Iranian film director. His works are usually based on social documentations. He was the first Iranian film director to win an international prize after the Islamic revolution in Iran...

). Then she was selected by Mohsen Makhmalbaf

Mohsen Makhmalbaf

Mohsen Makhmalbaf is an Iranian film director, writer, editor, and producer. During 2007 he was the president of Asian Film Academy.Makhmalbaf's films have been widely presented in international film festivals in the past ten years. The multi-award-winning director, belongs to the new wave...

 for 'Marriage of the Blessed' and received the prize from Fajr Intl. Film Festival. Her performance in Smell of Camphor, Fragrance of Jasmine

Smell of Camphor, Fragrance of Jasmine (film)

Smell of Camphor, Fragrance of Jasmine, or Booye Kafoor, Atre Yas , was written by, directed by, and starred Bahman Farmanara. The film was his first contribution to Iranian Cinema since two decades.-Plot:...

 was awarded with the prize of Best Supporting Actress at the festival.She started acting in TV programs by Sleep & Awake in 2001.

Some of her plays:

• The Imperfect Man, 1992
• The Fifth Season, 1996
• Smell of Camphor, Scent of Jasmine (directed by Bahman Farmanara
  Bahman Farmanara
  Bahman Farmanara is an Iranian film director, screenwriter, and film producer.Bahman Farmanara is the second son in a family of four brothers and one sister. The family business was Textile and he was the only son who did not join the business and went off to United Kingdom and later on to US to...
  
  ), 2000
• The Women's Prison, 2001
• The House Built on Water, 2002
• A Piece of Bread (Yek Tekke Nan, directed by Kamal Tabrizi
  Kamal Tabrizi
  Kamal Tabrizi is an Iranian film director. He was born in Tehran . A newly released picture shows that he was as a photographer & reporter among the 1979 hostage takers at the U.S. embassy in Tehran.- Filmography as a director :-External links:...
  
  ), 2005
• Niloofar
  Niloofar
  Niloofar is an Iranian movie, filmed in 2007 by the Lebanese director Sabine El Gemayel. The movie was launched in 2008.The movie poetically focuses on a young girl just entering puberty...
  
  , (directed by Sabine El Gemayel), 2008

External links

• Roya Nonahali at The Internet Movie Database