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Taraneh Alidoosti ( fa, ترانه عليدوستی; born 12 January 1984) is an Iranian actress. She is best known internationally for her role in '' The Salesman'' (2016), which won the Best Foreign Language Film Award at the 89th Academy Awards. In a poll conducted among 130 film critics by ''Sanate Cinema'' magazine, she was voted the best Iranian movie actress of the decade. In 2012, a similar poll by the ''
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'' magazine also chose her as the best actress of the decade. Recently, she has been arrested by the
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authorities for her support of the protests against the government.


Career

After having attended the acting school of Amin Tarokh since 2000, she had a leading role in ''
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'' (
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, 2002). Critics praised her performance as a 15-year-old girl who after a failed relationship is determined to rear a child on her own, while struggling with poverty and disapproval. She won the Bronze Leopard for Best Actress from the
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in 2002, as well as the
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for Best Actress from the 20th
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, becoming the youngest person ever to do so. Shortly after she set another record, getting nominated three consecutive times for the best actress prize at the
Fajr Film Festival Iran's annual Fajr International Film Festival ( fa, جشنواره بین‌المللی فیلم فجر), or Fajr Film Festival (little: FIFF; fa, جشنواره فیلم فجر), has been held every February and April in Tehran since 1982. T ...
for her first three films. Since then she has maintained a steady but selective workflow in both theatre and cinema. She was the lead actress for Ashgar Farhadi's
Fireworks Wednesday ''Fireworks Wednesday'' ( fa, چهارشنبه‌سوری, italic=yes, ''Čahâršanbe-Suri'') is a 2006 Iranian drama film directed by Asghar Farhadi and co-written by Farhadi and Mani Haghighi. It stars Hedieh Tehrani, Taraneh Alidoosti, and Ha ...
in 2006, which was also screened at the Locarno Film Festival. Alidoosti is mostly known for her selectiveness in accepting dramatic roles, as exemplified by her long collaboration with
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winner Asghar Farhadi, making her one of the most acclaimed actresses of her generation. She acted as a lead actress in ''The Salesman'' which won an Oscar in 2017. A prominent actress in Iran, she has bagged many awards and accolades.'' Alidoosti played the title role during the three seasons of the hit Iranian VOD series '' Shahrzad''.
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has recognized Alidoosti as one of several historically trailblazing women born between 9 through 16 January, along with three other Iranians,
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,
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, and
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.


Personal life

Alidoosti's father,
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, played football for Iran’s national team and was the first Iranian to play for a foreign team (
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, German 2. Bundesliga). Afterward, he became a professional football coach. Alidoosti's mother, , is a
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and art tutor. Alidoosti married and in 2013 had a daughter. Her only brother died young in an accident on
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, an Iranian New Year festivity.


Activism and arrest


Academy Awards boycott

On 26 January 2017, Alidoosti announced she would be boycotting the 89th Academy Awards where '' The Salesman'' had been nominated for
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to protest against upcoming stringent visa travel restrictions that the
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planned to impose on Iranians.


Arrest

On 17 December 2022, Iranian authorities detained Alidoosti for making an Instagram post criticising the
execution of Mohsen Shekari Mohsen Shekari ( fa, محسن شکاری; 24 February 2000 – 8 December 2022) was a 22-year-old Iranian man who was executed by the state of Iran after being convicted of injuring a member of Iran's Basij militia and being accused of ''Mohar ...
, which is the first known execution carried out by the Islamic Republic of Iran as a direct result of the
Mahsa Amini protests Civil unrest and protests against the government of Iran associated with the death in police custody of Mahsa Amini ( fa, مهسا امینی) began on 16 September 2022 and are ongoing as of December 2022. Amini had been arrested by the Guida ...
. The Instagram post reads, "Your silence means the support of the oppression and the oppressor. His name was Mohsen Shekari. Every international organization who is watching this bloodshed and not taking action, is a disgrace to humanity."


Reactions

About 600 members of the international arts community from 30 different countries signed an open letter demanding Alidoosti's release. Signatories include Dame Emma Thompson,
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and
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released a statement with the
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demanding Alidoosti's immediate release. There have also been statements demanding her release by the Cannes Film Festival, the
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,
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, IDFA and the
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.


Release

On 4 January 2023, Alidoosti was released after posting bail, reported to be around £20,000.


Filmography


Film


Web


Awards and nominations


See also

*
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 ...
* Detainees of the Mahsa Amini protests


References


External links

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