Zahra Amir Ebrahimi

Both were performed at the 22nd Fajr Theatre Festival.

There Is No One Who Can Remember All the Stories was also performed at the Lakoon Theatre Festival in Hamburg.

The film premiered at the 34th Fajr Film Festival and won the Best Art & Experience Film award.

Months after the final episode of Nargess was broadcast, Amir Ebrahimi became the center of a national scandal when a homemade sex tape purportedly featuring her was leaked to the internet.

Due to the scandal, she was banned from appearing in Iranian films and television for 10 years.

Journey to Hidalou was also banned from screening due to the scandal and was never released.

Zahra Amir Ebrahimi (born 9 July 1981), known professionally as Zar Amir Ebrahimi (زر امیرابراهیمی), is an Iranian-French actress, producer and director.

She rose to international prominence for her performance as journalist Arezoo Rahimi in the crime thriller Holy Spider (2022), for which she won the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress and Robert Award for Best Actress.

Amir Ebrahimi is also a producer and host for the BBC and oversees a cultural program for the Persian branch of BBC World.

In 2022, she appeared on BBC's 100 Women list as one of the world's inspiring and influential women of the year.

Zahra Amir Ebrahimi was born on July 9, 1981, in Tehran, Iran.

She studied theater in Azad University and started her professional career by making short films.

She speaks Persian, English and French fluently, and knows basic Arabic, German and Italian.

Amir Ebrahimi started her career by directing her first short film, Khat (2000), when she was only eighteen.

In 2001, Amir Ebrahimi made her feature film debut alongside Mohammad Ali Keshavarz in Waiting, directed by Mohammad Nourizad.

The same year, she acted in Ayat Najafi's play Sleepy Noon at the Niavaran Cultural Center of Téhéran.

In 2003, Amir Ebrahimi starred in two plays, Rahman Seifi Azad's Gathering in Hell and Reza Hadad's There Is No One Who Can Remember All the Stories.

In 2004, she appeared in three television projects, Help Me, Like a Stranger and Vow.

The first two, which are television series, were directed by Ghasem Jafari and the last one, which is a television film, was directed by Mehrdad Khoshbakht.

All three projects were broadcast in different networks.

In 2006, Amir Ebrahimi starred in the hit television series Nargess directed by Sirous Moghaddam.

The series was one of the most successful series of the year and during its airing, Amir Ebrahimi became very popular.

The series later won the Hafez Award for Best Television Series.

The same year, Amir Ebrahimi starred in the critically acclaimed drama film Journey to Hidalou, alongside Homayoun Ershadi and Mahmoud Pakniat, directed by Mojtaba Raie.

After Amir Ebrahimi was in danger of being imprisoned, she fled Iran and moved to Paris, France in 2008.

Months before her emigration, she had a small role in Palme d'Or-winning director Abbas Kiarostami's 2008 film Shirin, which premiered at the 65th Venice International Film Festival.

In 2009, she started over her acting career in France with Mohamad Rezaierad's play Silent Taheregan's Dream, alongside Shabnam Tolouei.

In 2010, Amir Ebrahimi starred in Tinouche Nazmjou's play Voices of Women / Voices of Blood at Théâtre Pentu et Parole Avalancheuse, Théâtre de l'Épée de Bois and Festival de l'arpenteur in Grenoble.

In 2011, she appeared in the television documentary Great Persians, directed by Wesley Eremenko-Dodd and broadcast by BBC World Service.

In 2012, she starred in Ebrahim Makki's play The Land of Fear and Hope at Salle Ayad Paris.

She also acted in Hamid Djavdan's play Little Red Boy (2014–2015) at La Compagnie des Mirages.

In 2015, Amir Ebrahimi acted in two short films, A Souvenir for My Mother and Jila directed by Iranian directors Mohammad Reza Kalani and Karim Lakzadeh, premiered at the 2015 Fribourg International Film Festival.

She also did voice acting in Arte's Silex and the City from 2015 to 2017.

She got her first leading role by starring as Vida Irandoost in the Swedish drama film Bride Price vs. Democracy (2016) directed by Reza Rahimi.

In 2017, she played Sara in the German-Austrian film Tehran Taboo, directed by Ali Soozandeh, which used rotoscoping technique and premiered at the International Critics' Week section at the 2017 Cannes Film Festival.

For her performance in the film, she won the award for Best Lead Actress in a Foreign Language Film at the 2018 Nice International Film Festival and received two other nominations.

In 2018, Amir Ebrahimi worked in four television projects.

She did the voice acting of Siri Perse and Ishtar in Arte's animated television series 50 Shades of Greek from 2018 to 2020.

She directed two television documentaries for BBC World Service and BBC Persian, titled Amir Naderi by Amir Naderi and Kahani's Cinema.

In the same year, she starred in Reza Keshavarz's play Water, which was performed in the 19th Fajr Theatre Festival.