Performed in the theater play "Mofatesh" (the Inspector) written and directed by her father Behzad Farahani, shown at the Tehran Fajr International Theater Festival (but the play was banned during the performance).
After playing in Ridley Scott's Body of Lies (2008), she was banned from leaving her home country Iran in February 2008 on her way to
London to make a screen test for Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time (2010). The role she was set to audition for eventually went to English actress
Gemma Arterton. This was only reported six months later when she
actually could leave the country. She now lives in Paris, France.
I think there is a problem in France that anyone who is not European, you want to know where they come from and why do they come from somewhere or why they speak English or why they are human. That's the big barrier for all of us that are coming from some far, far away countries. But at the end of the day, we are all artists.
