Narges Rashidi

Narges Rashidi (Persian: نرگس رشیدی; born 1980[1]) is an American-German actress of Iranian descent.Rashidi received international recognition and widespread acclaim for her starring role in the 2016 film Under the Shadow by Babak Anvari, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival.The magazine hailed her "intense yet fine-grained work... as a fiercely intelligent, progressive-minded Iranian woman infuriated by the direction of her country since the Islamic Revolution," noting, "Rashidi plays her character like a musical instrument going slowly out of tune; it's a performance rich in both motherly love and scream-queen abandon."[6] Rashidi plays Lale in the 2020 British TV series Gangs of London.[7] In June 2024, Deadline Hollywood reported that Rashidi had been cast alongside Joseph Fiennes in a BBC drama as Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe and her husband Richard Ratcliffe.
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