Pegah Ahangarani
Pegah Ahangarani | |
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 Ahangarani at Fajr International Film Festival in February 2017 | |
| Born | Pegah Ahangarani Farahani 24 July 1984 Farmahin, Iran |
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| Years active | 1990–present |
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Pegah Ahangarani (Persian: پگاه آهنگرانی; born 24 July 1984) is an Iranian actress and film director. She is the daughter of actress and film director Manijeh Hekmat and movie director Jamshid Ahangarani. She has acted in 11 Iranian feature films since 2001 and made one documentary.[1] She started her cinematic career by starring in the movie Singing Cat (Kambuzia Partovi) in 1990 at the age of six. Her breakthrough film role was playing Tadai in the movie The Girl in the Sneakers for which she won the Best Actress award at the Cairo International Film Festival. Her next role was in Women's Prison (2002, Manijeh Hekmat) which won the award for best film and screenplay in the sixth House of Cinema Ceremony. In 2001, along with Baran Kosari, she starred in the documentary Our Times, which is about the presidential election.
Filmography[]
- The Singing Cat (1990 – Directed by Kambuzia Partovi)
- The Girl in the Sneakers (1999 – Directed by Rasul Sadr Ameli)
- Women's Prison (2002 – Directed by Manijeh Hekmat)
- Our Days (2002 – Directed by Rakhshan Bani-Etemad)
- Maxx (2005 – Directed by Saman Moghadam)
- Sweet Jam (2006 – Directed by Arezoo Petrossian)
- 3 Women (2008 – Directed by Manijeh Hekmat)
- Shirin (2008 – Directed by Abbas Kiarostami)
- Maritime silk road (2010 – Directed by Mohammad Bozorgnia)
- Vorood-e-Aghayan Mamnoo (2011 – Directed by Rambod Javan)
- Trapped (2013 – Directed by Parviz Shahbazi)
- Atom Heart Mother (2013 – Directed by Ali Ahmadzadeh)
- A Persian Melody (2015 - Directed by Hamid Reza Ghotbi)
- Bandar Band (2020)
Awards[]
- Best Actress Award, for The Girl in Sneakers, 23rd Cairo International Film Festival, Egypt, December 1999
- Best Performance Award, for The Girl in Sneakers, Dokhtari ba Kafshhaye Katani (original title), 14th Isfahan International Film and Video Festival for Children and Young Adults, Iran, October 1999
- Best Actress Award, for Women’s Prison, "Zendan-e zanan" (original title), a movie that is directed by her mother wherein Pegah played three different roles, Locarno Film Festival
- Best Supporting Actress for Trapped, 31st International Fajr Film Festival 2013 [2]
Arrests[]
Ahangarani was arrested on 27 July 2009 in the wake of the turmoil after the 2009 presidential election, allegedly for her work in support of opposition candidate Mir-Hossein Mousavi.[3] She was later released but arrested again on 10 July 2011 prior to her planned trip to Germany to report on the 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup for the Persian service of the German broadcaster Deutsche Welle.[4] She was released from Evin Prison two weeks later on the equivalent of $84,000 bail after expressions of "outrage among foreign governments and human rights organizations".[5]
References[]
- ^ "Iranian actress Pegah Ahangarani arrested earlier this month: report". The Daily Star. 18 July 2011.
- ^ "Trapped | San Diego Asian Film Festival 2013". Festival.sdaff.org. Archived from the original on 29 October 2013. Retrieved 16 October 2015.
- ^ پگاه آهنگرانی دستگیر شد]. dw-world.de [Pegah Ahangrani was arrested] (in Persian). Archived from the original on 30 July 2009.
- ^ Dehghan, Saeed Kamali (15 July 2011). "Iranian actor arrested en route to women's World Cup". The Guardian.
- ^ "Iran Releases Prominent Actress on Bail]". Voice of America. 27 July 2011.
External links[]
- Iranian film actresses
- 1984 births
- Living people
- Iranian women film directors
- Crystal Simorgh for Best Supporting Actress winners