Mahnaz Afshar
Birthday: 1977-06-11 Place of Birth: Tehran, Iran
Synopsis
Mahnaz Afshar (مهناز افشار) was born on 11 June 1977 in Tehran. Having studied video editing, Mahnaz Afshar participated in an assembly of training materials for Ketabe Avval directed by Dariush Mehrjui. Her first official appearance as a film actress was in a work called Shoure Eshgh. Having gained substantial fame, she later appeared in such films as Atashbas and Salade Fasl. Mahnaz Afshar also acted in a TV series Gomshodeh by Mr. Masud Navaii, and a movie called Doostam directed by Mr. Abdollah Eskandari.
Acting
Shirin
A hundred and fourteen famous Iranian theater and cinema actresses and a French star: mute spectators at a theatrical representation of Khosrow and Shirin, a Persian poem from the twelfth century, put on stage by Kiarostami. The development of the text -- long a favorite in Persia and the Middle East -- remains invisible to the viewer of the film, the whole story is told by the faces of the women watching the show.
