Setareh Eskandari
- Actress
- Director
- Producer
Setareh Eskandari was born on June 15, 1974, in Torbat-e-Heydariyeh. She began her career in theater in 1993 with the students of the Faculty of Fine Arts. At that time, she was a translation student but after a while, withdrew from her studies for theatre. Setareh is the firstborn daughter of the Eskandari family in which everyone is familiar with the art world. Her sister Laleh is a well-known actress in cinema and television. Her other sister, Sarah, works in the makeup field, and their brother, Siamak, is a photographer. Their late uncle, Abdul Hussein Eskandari, was also an experienced radio and television presenter. Setareh was the first person among her sisters to enter the performance art. She lost his father, Abdul Vahid Eskandari, in 2016.
In 1994, Setareh Eskandri was nominated for "The Legend" and two years later for her performance in "The Last Champions of the Earth." She eventually joined the professional theater with "Golden tooth", directed by Davood Mirbagheri, and shortly afterward began collaborating with Ali Rafiei on the "Dey" band. In 2008, she won the Fajr Theater Festival's Best Female Actress Award for her performance in the show "Flickery Bliss of Downfallen men". She still considers herself a theatrical artist, and she has not fallen short of it all these years. Her other works in the field include plays such as "Romeo Juliet" directed by Ali Rafi'i, "One thousand and first Night" directed by Bahram Beyzaei, and "The harmony" by Afsaneh Mahian
It was in 1996 that Setareh Eskandari starred in the film "The Opponent of the Heart" written and directed by Reza Ganji. In the same year, she came to television with the series "House No. 13". She later starred in "Stay With Me" and starred in films such as "Tar Player and Tarzan" and The "Ray Traveler". But much of her fame and popularity came in the 2005 "Narges" TV series. After the sudden and unfortunate death of Popak Goldare (Narges), she was selected to star as Narges. she says her salary was multiplied after that show, and she owes this to television. In her early years, she was a fanatic of theater but after a while, she worked in cinema and television as well. "The Gradual Death of a Dream" was another serial in which Setareh Eskandari played a key and fascinating role. she says everyone still knows her for the same two series. she has also appeared in series such as "The kind Month" (Behrouz Baghaei-1994), "Leila" (Masoud Foroutan-1996), "New Life" (Masoud Foroutan), "The Adventures of the Old House" (Ismail Mihan Dust), "The Station" »(Manouchehr Asgari Nasab)," It's hard to marry a woman "(Pouyan Taife)," Story of a City "(Asghar Farhadi) (Guest Actor)," The Adventures of Taqi Jan "(Marzieh Mahboob)," Neighborhood Lawyer "(Ismail Mihan Dust) ), "Supporter" (Bahman Zarrinpour), "Memorable Days" (Homayoun Shahnavaz and Toraj Mansouri), "An Alien Among Us" (Ahmad Amini), "Lost Love" (Hossein Soheilizadeh), "The Smell of Wild Flowers" "(Hossein Ali Lialestani)," Until Morning "(Majid Javanmard and Mohammad Ali Bashe Ahangar), "Factor Eight" (Reza Karimi), "Delight of the Flight" (Yadollah Samadi), "Astonishment" (Keyvan Alimohammadi and Omid Bonkakdar), "Haft Sin" (Yadollah Samadi), "All Our Children" (Tajbakhsh Fanaiyan), "Saffron" (Hamed Mohammadi), "The Losts" (Reza Karimi), "Gilah Wa" (Ardalan Ashouri), "Silent Assassination" (Ahmad Moazami).
Her cinematic activities also include the films "Chemical" directed by Ashkan Masti, "Fish Lake" directed by Maryam Dusti, "Paper House" directed by Mehdi Sabaghzadeh, "Meli and her Untaken Paths" by Tahmineh Milani, "It Happened at Midnight" directed by Tina Pakravan, "Closer" directed by Mustafa Ahmadi, "Tomorrow" directed by Mehdi Pakdel and Iman Afsharian, "Unwanted" directed by Borzu Niknejad, "Hush! Girls Don't Scream "Directed by Puran Derakhshandeh," Chaos "directed by Ibrahim Forouz," Mr Youssef "directed by Ali Rafiee," The Last Station "(Meeting Episode) directed by Shapur Qarib," Sticking Plaster "(Meeting Episode) Directed by Hadi Moghaddam Dust, "Non-profit Cemetery" directed by Mohsen Damadi, "Tale of Priya" directed by Fereydoon Jirani, "Meet" directed by Abbas Rafi, "day and night" directed by Keyvan Alimohammadi and Omid Bonkakar, "Nighttime" directed by Abadi Rafi Omid Bonkakar, "Encounter " directed by Saeed Ebrahimi Far and " The Opponent of the Heart " by Reza Ganji .
In addition to directing in two theaters, Setareh Eskandari has also appeared as a producer several times. She founded Mana House of Culture and Art in 2016, and a year later, opened the Iranian Puppet Museum with Siavash Sattari. Her other notable activities include launching the first puppet parade in the Chabahar Free Zone with the aim of creating happiness and dream for Baluchi children.