Susan Taslimi
Susan Taslimi is an Iranian-Swedish film and theatre actress, director and screenwriter. She emigrated from Iran in 1987, and now lives and works in Sweden.
Early and personal life
Born in Rasht in 1950 to film producer Khosro Taslimi and actress Monireh Taslimi, Susan Taslimi is the first non-European to play the lead role on a national theater stage in Sweden. Her brother Cyrous is also an actor and film producer.She graduated in theater and acting from the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Tehran and started film acting with Bahram Bayzai's Ballad of Tara in 1979. She was married to film director and actor Dariush Farhang.
Filmography (as an actress)
Films
- Ballad of Tara – as Tara
- Death of Yazdgerd – as The Miller's wife
- Sarbedaran – as Fatemeh
- Madian
- Telesm – as Shahzdeh's bride
- Bashu, the Little Stranger – as Naii
- Perhaps Some Other Time
- Gränsen – as Aisha
- En dag i taget – as Kia
- Orka! Orka! – as Schole
- The Charmer – as Leila
- Black Crab – as Admiral Nodh
Theatre
- Medea – as Medea
- Death of Yazdgerd – as the Miller's wife
Filmography (as a director)
- Hus i helvete
- Orka! Orka!
- Det epileptiska riktmärket.
- Älskar, älskar och älskar.
- ''Häktet''