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Marshall Manesh was born in Iran. He lost his father at an early age and was raised by his beloved mother, whom he feels he got his strength from to make it in show biz. He came to the United States in the mid '70s and joined the Persian Theater Group and traveled extensively through out the US, Canada and Europe for 8 years. His debut film was "True Lies" as Jamal Khaled, directed by James Cameron. Marshall has done more than 100 feature films, television projects and more than 40 commercials. He had a recurring roles on Will & Grace as Mr. Zamir, How I Met Your Mother as Ranjit, Scrubs as Dr. Akbar, and was also a series regular on Andy Barker P.I.

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was born on 17 July 1939 in Mashhad, Iran. He has been married to Khojaste Khamenei since 1964.

Elahe's latest film 'A Move' has been a part of prestigious festivals such as Telluride, BFI London, IDFA, Visions du Réel, DOK-Leipzig, Sheffield Doc/Fest, DOC NYC, DMZ Docs. Her previous films also have been received well, from winning HotDocs Best International Short award, to Critics Choice nomination, SIMA and One World Media award, and more. The recognition given to her works reflects her prowess in storytelling and women's rights advocacy.

Rafi Pitts' films have attained acclaim and awards around the globe. Pitts' first feature, Season Five (1997), premiered in the Venice Film Festival. His second, Sanam (2000) was hailed by French critics and compared to The 400 Blows (1959). In 2003, Pitts presented his controversial feature documentary, Abel Ferrara: Not Guilty (2003) in the Official Selection of the Locarno Film Festival . It's Winter (2006) premiered in the Berlin Competition, and one year later, the Seattle International Film Festival honored Pitts with the Emerging Masters Award for his work. In 2010, Pitts' fifth feature The Hunter (2010) was also nominated for the Berlin Golden Bear as well as Best Actor for his performance in the leading role. In 2012 Ben Affleck invited Pitts to join him as an actor as well as his personal consultant on the feature film Argo (2012), which went on to win the Oscar for Best Motion Picture the following year. In 2016 Pitts premiered Soy Nero (2016) in the Berlin Film Festival and for the third time running he was nominated for the Golden Bear.

Born 1967 in Iran, Pitts spent his childhood in Tehran, where he lived in a basement flat underneath a post-production studio. During the war between Iran and Iraq, in 1981, he fled the country and moved to Britain. In 1991 Pitts graduated from Harrow College - Polytechnic of Central London with a BA (Hons) Degree in Film and Photography. His first short, In Exile (1991), was presented the same year at the London International Film Festival. In the 90's, Pitts moved to Paris and worked on films by Leos Carax, Jacques Doillon and Jean-Luc Godard.

Kourosh Torbat Zadeh was born on 25 June 1991 in Mashhad, Iran.

Hamed Behdad was born on November 17th, 1973 in Mashad, Iran. Hamed showed his talent in "End of Game". He played as "Foad" in "The Third Day" and this character is the best character that Hamed Behdad played and he was nominated for the best second actor in 25th Fajr International Film Festival.

Alireza Abedizadeh is an Iranian political and social activist, writer, novelist, and English teacher. He grew up in the small town of Boshrouyeh, Ferdows. Alireza has always been passionate about writing and knew from a young age that he wanted to become a writer. He began his professional writing career by writing plays before turning to novel writing. His most famous work, "Masquerade," is still in the process of being published in Iran. Despite this, Alireza gained significant popularity among readers of mystery, crime, and romantic genres by releasing just the first chapter on Google Play Books and other social platforms.

Saeed Hanaei was born in 1962 in Mashhad, Iran. He died on 8 April 2002 in Mashhad, Iran.

Mohammad Reza Shajarian was born on 23 September 1940 in Mashhad, Iran. He was a composer, known for Kingdom of Heaven (2005), Rhino Season (2012) and The First Letter (2003). He was married to Katayoun Khansari and Farkhondeh Golafshan. He died on 8 October 2020 in Tehran, Iran.

Pouria Afkhami was born in November 1990 in Mashhad, Iran. He moved to Malesia in 2006 and started photography in nightclubs of Koalalampour in 2008. He moved back to Iran in 2010 and started an underground fashion photo/videography and street art as a social media content producer and music video director. In September 2011 he got arrested and was under custody for 113 nights in Mashhad's central prison. He has been arrested a total of 3 times for expressing his POV, in which the second time was by the IRGC intelligence services for 17 nights in solitary. He then moved to Georgia and got into concert photography. During this time he shot Arash, Aref, Shahram Shabpare, Tohi, Rezaya, Omid, Sepideh, Babak Rahnama, Shadmehr Aghili, and Amir Tataloo's concerts. He worked in some festivals such as Tbilisi open-air festival in which he did photoshoots for Sevdaliza, Anathema, Tom Oddel, archive, and Leningrad band. He directed and produced music videos for an Iranian female activist and Persian rapper Justina ft. Jamin. He moved to Canada in 2019 and tried to blend into society. He now feels freer to apply his skills on a vaster horizon.

Amir Ghavidel was a writer and a pioneer filmmaker in Iranian cinema. He started his artistic life in the field of theater at a young age in Mashad before moving to Tehran to officially begin his writing and filmmaking career. Ghavidel made ten feature films during his professional life and branded himself as a technical filmmaker with movies about Iran's post-revolution social and political concerns.

Malek Jahan Khazai was born on 10 August 1949 in Mashhad, Iran. She is an art director and production designer, known for Birth of a Butterfly (1997), Old Persian Legends and The Hunter (2010).

Elham Nami is an Iranian Actress and voice Actress born on April 28, 1986 in Mashhad, Iran. She started her career in television with the series Searchers in 2008 and then, by playing in the series Shahrzad (2015) Directed by Hasan Fathi, She continued her path of success in acting. She is also very active in the field of narration.

Sahar Heidary (Original Name Zahra Heidari) is an Iranian actress and model born on July 21, 2000 in Mashhad, Iran. .She entered the arena of acting through Danial Hajibarat and started acting in the movie It's just a cigarette (2017). Sahar Heidary started her artistic career at the age of fifteen. She has been mostly involved in modeling.

Mohammad Yarmataghloo Sohrabi Director and actor born on 05/17/2002 in Mashhad.

His first film project was the film Mohammad Rasoolullah directed by Majid Majidi in 2015 as an actor.

His latest project was as an actor in a film without an appointment, directed by Behrouz Shoaib, along with Mostafa Zamani and Pegah Ahangrani.

His first directing project was with the film The force of nature humanity, which was made in 2021 in Mashhad.

Hengameh Ghaziani was born on 20 May 1970 in Mashhad, Iran. She is an actress, known for As Simple as That (2008), Days of Life (2012) and Charm (2016).

Mahbubeh Bayat was born on 22 February 1949 in Mashhad, Iran. She is an actress, known for Along the Night (1978), Bihamta (2001) and Jamil (1987).

Reza Safai was born on 1 May 1937 in Mashhad, Iran. He was a director and editor, known for Little Hero (1967), Tricksters (1967) and The Dangerous Chase (1965). He died on 11 February 2019 in Tehran, Iran.

Mahdi Sharaki was born on 27 January 2002 in Mashhad is an Iranian Singer, Music Producer, Composer and Actor. He started his career as a teenager and resumed music and singing professionally in 2020 and became popular among people. If we want to name some of his works that are very popular, we can mention the songs Berar, Etemad, Tabani, Rozegar, Delbar, Nazi Jan, Deltang. He has also acted in movies such as Fossil, Sagband and Shishlik. He plans to create many epic works in line with his ideals and he believes that nowadays people get their peace by listening to their favorite music and songs, so we should not neglect this issue, therefore we should focus on creating epic works.

Saghi Ghahraman fled her native Iran after being arrested for working with a communist organization's women's branch. She has been living in exile in Canada for two decades, and is devoted to providing a voice for the Iranian gay, lesbian, and Transsexual community. To this end, she co-founded the IRQO (Iranian Queer Organization) and acts as the president of the organization. She chief-edited Cheraq (www.cheraq.org),IRQO's online monthly magazine. She coordinates Gilgamishaan Publications.

Saghi Ghahraman's Farsi Publication include The Whore is the Saviour; Of Lies; Saghi Ghahraman. That's All; And When You Are Lonely, It Is Painful to Be Cow. Her English works have appeared in Amnesty International's 2000 Collection of Poetry, Diaspora Dialogue's TOK, and the Calgary-based quarterly The Filling Station. In addition to her print work, Ms. Ghahraman publishes a weblog.

Saghi Ghahraman's poetry strips the words to liberate sexuality that lies beneath, and to celebrate an unveiled body free to choose how to identify self. She attempts to de-stigmatize terms of a sexual nature through her writing; by letting in words previously banned in Farsi literature, she redefines their connotations, puts them in a truer light.

Before bounding to lead IRQO, from it's base in Toronto, Saghi Ghahraman traveled extensively, reading in Farsi and in English at various poetry readings and panels. She has also been a visiting editor at Descant (through the PEN Writers in Exile program) and a writer-in-residence at the Owen Sound Public Library. She showed her Collection of Photos in 401 Gallery, Richmond Toronto, and Da Last Studio Chicago.

Javad Jalali, born in Mashhad, Iran, is a photographer best known for his photography of Refugees and Immigrants of Afghanistan and Kurdistan of Iraq (2008,2011), Mysticism in Iranian Architecture (2001), Traditional Iranian Kilns (2004, 2008, 2011), Mental and Physical Patients (2003, 2004) as well as abstract photography of horses, trees and still photography of film. He has done photography in several countries, such as Afghanistan (2011, 2010, 2007), Turkey (2010, 2003), Armenia (2009), Iraq (2008), Azerbaijan (2008), Tajikistan (2007), India (2005, 2006) and Lebanon (2006, 2007). His photos have been published in DPhotojournal (2010, 2011), Vogue (2010), Myfdb (2010), Film International (2010), Film Magazine (2008,2009,2010,20011), "Picture World"(2009, 2010) Ideallife(2009), Screen Cannes (2009), Cinemotion (2009). His photo of the movie "Farewell, Baghdad" is now kept in "Iranian Artists Forum" in Tehran, Iran. He also holds the record for the highest sale of a photo in a Photo Expo in Iran for 800,000,000 rials. He filmed "Boghz" using two cameras in Turkey (2011). Alongside photography, he gave concerts in Mashhad, Isfahan, Shiraz and Tehran under the name "Varoujan" from 2000 to 2002.

Hadi Sheibani is an Iranian film editor with a demonstrated history of working in short films and documentaries. Hadi Sheibani was awarded an AFA scholarship as the only Iranian Fellow at Asian Film Academy 2019. Also, one of his scripts was selected for pitching at Motion Picture Association - Asia Pacific (Bridge to Hollywood). Furthermore, He has participated in social activities, including So-Art Club, which screened two shorts he contributed as the editor at Harvard University on May 3, 2019. In February 2022, Hadi Sheibani wrote and directed his first short film, Katvoman, co-produced by Ravinder Dhaka. Inspired by MeToo Movement, the film deals with domestic violence and women's rights.

Anousheh Ansari was born on 12 September 1965 in Mashhad, Iran.

Alireza Abbas Beygi is an Iranian music artist, actor, poet and screenwriter. Alireza Abbas Beygi is a person who, after taking acting, music, writing and poetry classes, has now become a successful and influential person and has become popular among the people. His main fame is for playing in the movie " salam bar eshgh " . Alireza, after several years of designing and working in his field, was able to achieve his own style that can now be used by the people. Alireza is often known for his acting, music, writing and beautiful poems. Alireza Abbas Beygi's latest singles show how much he has grown in the last few years. Intricate rhythms and a hypnotic atmosphere combine to create a truly amazing sound. It is easy to see why his career continues to grow, as he composes a song that almost looks like a dance party was built directly on it. Alireza Abbas Beygi's latest singles show how 2020 was the biggest year of his professional life to date. He is planning big performances at festivals across Europe and the United States, all of which will lead to the release of his first full-length album. As soon as this record is reduced, Alireza Abbas Beigi will most likely become one of the biggest names in his industry. He has grown in recent years. Intricate rhythms and a hypnotic atmosphere combine to create a truly amazing sound. It is easy to see why his career continues to grow, as he composes a song that is almost like a song. The dance party was built directly on it.

Nooreddin Zarrin Kelk was born on 6 April 1936 in Mashhad, Iran. He is a director and writer, known for A playground for Baboush (1971), Persian Carpet (2007) and Amir Hamza the Lover and the Dancing Zebra (1977).