1. Shohreh Aghdashloo has received various accolades, including a Primetime Emmy Award and a Satellite Award, in addition to a nomination for an Academy Award.
12 Facts About Shohreh Aghdashloo
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In 2024, Shohreh Aghdashloo voiced the unnamed dragon in the 2024 Netflix film Damsel.
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Shohreh Aghdashloo earned a bachelor's degree in international relations at Brunel University because of her interest in politics after having to leave her home country.
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Shohreh Aghdashloo was already familiar with England, as her parents had taken her to London as a child.
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Shohreh Aghdashloo then continued to pursue her acting career, which brought her to Los Angeles.
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Shohreh Aghdashloo has since performed in a number of Touzie's plays, successfully taking them to national and international stages, primarily in the Iranian diaspora.
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Shohreh Aghdashloo first began working as a theatre actress at the age of 19, when she starred in a theatrical adaptation of the novel The Narrow Road to the Deep North.
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Shohreh Aghdashloo made her American film debut in 1989 in a starring role in Guests of Hotel Astoria.
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In 2001 Shohreh Aghdashloo was cast opposite Ben Kingsley and Jennifer Connelly in director Vadim Perelman's House of Sand and Fog for which she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.
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Shohreh Aghdashloo played supporting roles in films such as X-Men: The Last Stand as Dr Kavita Rao, The Lake House, The Nativity Story as Elizabeth, and The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2.
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Shohreh Aghdashloo voiced characters for the video games Mass Effect 2, Mass Effect 3, Destiny Destiny 2, and Assassin's Creed Mirage; starred in the London revival of the play The House of Bernarda Alba at the Almeida Theatre as Bernarda Alba; and narrated the audiobook And the Mountains Echoed, by Khaled Hosseini.
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From 2015 to 2022, Shohreh Aghdashloo starred in Amazon Prime Video's television series The Expanse as UN Deputy Undersecretary of Executive Administration Chrisjen Avasarala, a "smart and passionate member of a political family legacy who has risen high in the ranks of Earth's governing body without once standing for election".