Shohreh Aghdashloo mini-bio: Shohreh Aghdashloo is an Academy Award nominated Iranian-American actress and self-proclaimed activist. She is outspoken against her native Iran's current government. Aghdashloo made her American film debut in 1989 in a starring role in Guests Of Hotel Astoria. Her TV debut came in 1990 in a guest role in the NBC television series Matlock, titled "Nowhere to Turn: A Matlock Mystery Movie". Three years later when she played a guest role in popular comedy series Martin. Also in 1993, she made her next film appearance in Twenty Bucks, playing "Ghada Holiday". After seven years, Aghdashloo returned once again to the American film industry in 2000, starring in the critically acclaimed Maryam (in which she played Mrs. Armin) and Surviving Paradise. After appearing as an exiled actress in America So Beautiful in 2001, Aghdashloo shot to fame in 2003 co-starring opposite Ben Kingsley and Jennifer Connelly in director Vadim Perelman's House of Sand and Fog, for which she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role.
She received good reviews for her 12 season-four episodes of the television series 24, playing Dina Araz. Jonathan Adhout played her son both in House of Sand and Fog and 24. She went on to guest star on two episodes of NBC shows that were broadcast the same night, March 23, 2006: The "Cowboys and Iranians" episode of the comedy Will & Grace, in which she played a wannabe interior designer, and the "Lost in America" episode of the medical drama ER, playing a bereaved mother who loses her daughter in the trauma room.
Shohreh also continued her film career. She starred in the 2005 movie The Exorcism of Emily Rose and also appeared in the film X-Men: The Last Stand (2006). Two other parts also came her way in 2006, one in satirical comedy American Dreamz and another in The Lake House.
Other credits include narrating and producing a documentary Mystic Iran: The Unseen World, narrating the PBS documentary Iran: A Celebration of Art and Culture, narrating the audiobook version of Inside the Kingdom: My Life in Saudi Arabia and lending her vocal talents to an animated movie Babak & Friends: A First Norooz. She also had a starring role in the 2004 TV film The Secret Service and played the character Charlie in two of three aired episodes of the flopped TV series Smith.
Her upcoming projects include playing Elizabeth, cousin of the Virgin Mary, in the biblical film Nativity, scheduled for release December 2006.
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