Melika Foroutan (born 1976) is a
German
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Iran
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ian actress.
Biography
Melika Foroutan, born 1976 in Tehran, initially studied Philosophy, English and History in Cologne from 1995 to 1998. She then enrolled in the acting class at the
University of Arts (UdK) in Berlin, where she graduated in 2002. In the three following years, she joined the company at the Schauspielhaus Leipzig.
She had breakout roles in 2006 with the drama "Wut" ("Anger") and as police officer Silvia Henke in the critically acclaimed TV show “
KDD – Kriminaldauerdienst”. In 2015 she was awarded best actress at the Hessischer Filmpreis for her role in “Louise Boni”.
The 70th Filmfest Berlin presented Melika in the title role of "Pari" directed by Siamak Etemadi in the Section Panorama. When Iranian Pari arrives in Athens with her husband, her son is not at the airport as planned. Pari sets off in search of him and gets deeply caught up in the fabric of this foreign city.
As of January 2013, Foroutan was living in Berlin with a male partner from Dortmund.
Filmography
Source:
* 2000: Für dich mein Herz
* 2004:
Blond: Eva Blond! – Der Zwerg im Schließfach
* 2004:
* 2006: Vogel im Käfig
* 2006: Alles über Anna
* 2006:
Krieg der Frauen
* 2006:
Wut
* 2007: Bittersüsses Nichts
* 2007: Drei Reisende (Kurzfilm)
* 2007–2010:
KDD – Kriminaldauerdienst
* 2008: –
* 2008: Die dunkle Seite
* 2008:
Lutter – Ein toter Bruder
* 2008:
Palermo Shooting
* 2009:
Der Kapitän
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– Packeis
* 2009:
66/67: Fairplay Is Over
* 2009:
Flemming
Flemming is a surname and a male given name referring, like the more common '' Fleming'', to an inhabitant (or descendant thereof) of Flanders, – Der Tag ohne gestern
* 2010:
Stolberg (TV series)
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– Familienbande
* 2011:
* 2011:
Von Mäusen und Lügen
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* 2011:
Der Duft von Holunder
* 2011:
* 2011: Es ist nicht vorbei
* 2011:
Unter Verdacht – Persönliche Sicherheiten
* 2011:
Und dennoch lieben wir – Regie: Matthias Tiefenbacher (Fernsehfilm)
* 2012:
Das Ende einer Nacht
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* Departamento Administrativo de Seguridad, a former Colombian ...
* 2012:
Schief gewickelt
* 2013:
Die Kronzeugin – Mord in den Bergen
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(Fernsehfilm)
[Jürgen Overkott]
''Melika Foroutan beeindruckt in ZDF-Krimi "Die Kronzeugin"''
In: '' Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung'', 28 January 2013, retrieved, 17 November 2013.
* 2013:
Weissensee
* 2013:
Unter Feinden
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* Über (disambiguation), th ...
* 2014:
Das Attentat Sarajevo 1914
* 2014:
Das Lächeln der Frauen
Das or DAS may refer to:
Organizations
* Dame Allan's Schools, Fenham, Newcastle upon Tyne, England
* Danish Aviation Systems, a supplier and developer of unmanned aerial vehicles
* Departamento Administrativo de Seguridad, a former Colombian ...
* 2014: Die Mamba
* 2014: Louise Boni – Mord im Zeichen des Zen
*2015: Louise Boni – Jäger in der Nacht
*2016: Der gute Bulle
*2017: Reich oder Tot
*2018: Wiener Blut
*2019:
Tribes of Europa
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Synopsis
The story is set in 2074, 43 years after a mysterious global technological failure caused nations to slip ...
*2020: Il Pastore
*2020: Mediterranéo
*2022:
The Empress
*2022: Die Kaiserin
Awards
* 2015
Hessischer Fernsehpreis for her role in ''Begierde – Mord im Zeichen des Zen''.
References
External links
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1976 births
German film actresses
German television actresses
21st-century German actresses
People from Rhein-Hunsrück-Kreis
Actresses from Tehran
German Film Award winners
Iranian people of German descent
Iranian emigrants to Germany
Actresses from Berlin
University of Cologne alumni
Berlin University of the Arts alumni
Living people