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First Iranian actress to win the Best Actress award at the Cannes Film Festival. She won the award in 2022 for her performance in Holy Spider (2022).

Lives in Paris, France since being exiled from Iran in 2008. She became a French citizen in 2017.

Speaks Persian (mother tongue), Afghan (fluent), English (fluent), French (fluent), Arabic - modern standard (basic), German (basic), and Italian (basic).

Studied theater, art and architecture at Azad University of Tehran.

Amir Ebrahimi is her last name. In Persian, it's Amirebrahimi but in English they are written separately for easier pronunciation.