Trivia

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.

She completed a four-year ballet course at Iran's National Ballet Organization. Her passion and interest for artistic works first opened her feet to dance and then she was attracted to cinema in 1971 at the age of 24.

After many years, Zari Khoshkam's first serious experience in the cinema after the Revolution, again under the name Zahra Hatami, was acting in the film Portrait of a Lady Far Away, directed by her son-in-law Ali Mosaffa in 2002, which is based on the story of her life.

Zahra Hatami's last film appearance was in the film Dar Dunya Tu (2015, Safi Yazdanian's first feature film) in which she played the role of Hawa Khanum next to her son-in-law and her daughter, and after that, she also played a role in Shalevar (2016, Hamid Nematullah) alongside Amin Hayai.

Her acting career spanned over five decades.

The beginning of her film career was with the film Adamak by Khosrow Haritash; however, she was introduced to the cinema with the film A Hut Across the River directed and filmed by Ahmed Shirazi and produced by Mohammad Ali Jafari. In this film, which was made and released in 1971, Zari played the role of a girl named Frank, who was brought back to life by a truck driver named Hossein Gabi after separating from her beloved son, Bijan. The roles of the male characters in this film were played by Naser Malek Motiei and Homayun Bahadran. Her participation in this film and her brilliance, which was not unrelated to her nude scenes, attracted the attention of many Iranian cinematographers.