Mahaya Petrosian ( fa, ماهایا پطروسیان, born 3 January 1970) is an Iranian
actress
An actor or actress is a person who portrays a Character (arts), character in a performance. The actor performs "in the flesh" in the traditional medium of the theatre or in modern media such as film, radio, and television. The analogous Greek ...
of
Armenia
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n descent. She is also a director, A Beautiful Snowy Day being her first movie as director.
Biography
Mahaya Petrosian was born in Tehran on January 4, 1980, and after earning a diploma, she went to the Faculty of Fine Arts and was able to graduate in theater from this university. Mahaya Petrosyan was from the Armenian minority living in Tehran and converted to Islam after marrying a Muslim man. Her first artistic activity was acting in the movie "Love and Death" directed by Mohammad Reza Alami and she entered the field of acting. Acting in this film did not have much work for him due to his small role, but by acting in the film The Last Screen and his second cinematic activity, he was able to show his abilities.
Filmography
See also
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Tahmineh Milani
Tahmineh Milāni ( fa, تهمینه میلانی) is an Iranian feminist activist, and film director and producer.
Early career
She was born 1960 in Tabriz, Iran. After graduating in architecture from the University of Science and Technology ...
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Mohsen Makhmalbaf
Mohsen Makhmalbaf ( fa, محسن مخملباف, ''Mohsen Makhmalbaaf''; born May 29, 1957) is an Iranian film director, writer, film editor, and producer. He has made more than 20 feature films, won some 50 awards and been a juror in more than 1 ...
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Iranian cinema
The Cinema of Iran (Persian: سینمای ایران), also known as the Cinema of Persia, refers to the cinema and film industries in Iran which produce a variety of commercial films annually. Iranian art films have garnered international fame a ...
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Persian women
Throughout history, women in Iran have played numerous roles, and contributed in many ways, to Iranian society. Historically, tradition maintained that women be confined to their homes so that they could manage the household and raise children ...
References
External links
Official Website*
1970 births
Living people
Iranian actresses
Actresses from Tehran
Iranian film actresses
Iranian stage actresses
Ethnic Armenian actresses
University of Tehran alumni
Iranian people of Armenian descent
Crystal Simorgh for Best Supporting Actress winners
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