Anahita Dargahi ( fa, آناهیتا درگاهی; born ) is an Iranian actress. She is best known for her roles in the web series ''Forbidden'' (2018–2019), '' I Want to Live'' (2021), and ''The North Pole'' (2024). Dargahi received a Hafez Award nomination for her performance in '' The Loser Man'' (2022).

Early life

Anahita Dargahi was born in 1984 in

Tehran Tehran (; fa, تهران ) is the largest city in Tehran Province and the capital of Iran. With a population of around 9 million in the city and around 16 million in the larger metropolitan area of Greater Tehran, Tehran is the most popul ...

. She began painting at seven under the instruction of the renowned painter

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. Having gained accomplishments in her painting career, Dargahi has held several individual exhibitions while actively participating in several group ones in Iran and abroad. She has also designed numerous posters. While a painter and an actor, she was the producer of the music video Parde-ye Ākhar (The Last Act) by

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as well as one of Arian Keshishi's concerts. Dargahi is a stage and movie actress. She learned her first lessons in acting from

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, who gave her a part in his movie ''Ākharin bār key Sahar rā didi?'' ''(When Did You Meet Sahar Last?)'' in 2015. Dargahi continued with her academic education in art and did a B.A. in graphics and an M.A. in painting from

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. She married the actor, singer, and director Ashkan Khatibi in 2016. She is the aunt of footballer Dennis Eckert.

Career

Painting

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Dargahi has held three individual exhibitions of her works at the Niavaran Palace Complex and

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and Farmanieh Galleries, all in Tehran. She has also taken part in three group exhibitions at the Museum of Fine Arts of the Sa’dabad Palace Complex, Kamal-ol-Molk Gallery, and Jam Art Gallery in

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. Her latest painting exhibition, called “Fasl-e man kojāst?” (“Where Is My Season?”) was held at Ariana Gallery.

Acting

Dargahi's acting debut was the detective movie ' ''(When Did You Met Sahar Last?)'', directed by

in 2015. Nominated in five categories at the Fajr International Film Festival, the movie brought her to the limelight. Dargahi went on to star in such movies as ' (''Yellow'', directed by Mostafa Taghizadeh, 2016), ' (''The Story of Siavash'', by Amir Eskandari, 2017), ' (''Murphy’s Law'', by

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, 2018), ' (''The Naïve One'', by Farzad Motamen, 2018), ' (by Mohammad Ali Sajjadi, 2018), ' (''The Purple Tree'', by Amin Aslani, 2019), ' (''Azure'', by Hosein Soheilizadeh, 2019). She also starred in the TV series ' (''The Forbidden'', by Amir Purkian, 2017) as "Talā Davallou". Dargahi took roles in a number of plays including ' (''Waiting for Adolf'', by Alireza Koushk Jalali, 2017), ' (''The Three Sisters'', by Mohammad-Hasan Ma'jouni, 2017), ' (''Ten Years of Solitude'', by Ashkan Khatibi, 2018), ' (''The Famine-stricken'', by Ashkan Khatibi, 2019).

Filmography

Film

Web

Theatre

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comedy by

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) * ' (') (

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of a play by

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) * ' (') (Ali Shams) * ' (') ( Alireza Koushk Jalali) * ' (') (Mohammad-Hasan Ma'jouni, Pāliz Amphitheater, June 2017, based on a play be

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) * ' theater-concerto (') (Ashkan Khatibi)

References

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Dargahi, Anahita 1987 births Living people Actresses from Tehran Iranian women painters 21st-century Iranian painters Iranian film actresses Iranian stage actresses Iranian television actresses 21st-century Iranian actresses