Biography

She studied in Tehran and London before taking up cinema as her career when she was 24.

Her prime was in the 1970s, but the 1979 Revolution in Iran did not stop her from pursuing her profession.

Zari Khoshkam wed Ali Hatami in October 1971. For about three months thereafter, the media heard nothing about Khoshkam and Hatami, until January 1972, when Hatami confirmed the news of his marriage to Khoshkam during an interview with Weekly Information magazine (number 1572). After the birth of their first and only child, Leila Hatami, on 1 October 1972, Khoshkam practically withdrew from the cinema, and before the Revolution, she appeared in only one more role, that of Ezzat ed-Dowleh, Amir Kabir's wife, in the television series Soltan-e Sahebgharan (1975), directed by her husband.

Zari Khoshkam or Zahra Hatami received the Ali Hatami Award as the best screenwriter of thirty years of post-Revolutionary Iranian cinema at the second celebration of the Critics and Writers Association in 2007.

Her film character changed after her marriage to Hatami, and after that she was not seen in cinema quite as often.