Niki Karimi (), born 10 November 1971
in
Tehran, is a multi-award winning
ian actress and movie director.
Biography
Niki Karimi was born and raised in
Tehran. She participated in theatrical work while she was in elementary school. Her hobby of reading and watching movies from an early age inspired her to become an actress. Her talent as an actress was found by the famous Iranian actor
Jamshid Gorgin, while she was playing a role in a school play.
She loves translating and in 1999 she released her first translation work,
Marlon Brando's biography
Songs My Mother Taught Me in to
Persian.
Niki is now an actress in Iran who has won several awards both at home and internationally.
She has also recently been in the jury for such festivals as the
Locarno International Film Festival and
Thessaloniki International Film Festival and
Berlin Film Festival and also the
60th Cannes Film Festival.
In 2001, with
Abbas Kiarostami as the producer she directed
To have or not to have, a documentary about infertility. Her efforts won her first award as a director in "The Rain" festival in Iran.
[ Niki Karimi :: Biography]
In an interview at the
2005 Cannes Film Festival, where her motion picture directorial debut
One Night was nominated, she said that acting no longer satisfies her and she would like to direct more movies.
[Cannes Interview]
Filmography
Niki has starred in over 20 movies in Iran, and has recently begun to direct her own.
As director
As an actress
Best Actress in
Nantes Film Festival (1995)
| 1991 | The Footsteps of the Wolf | Massoud Kimiaii |
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| 1990 | The Bride | Behrooz Afkhami |
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| 1989 | Temptation | Jamshid Haidari |
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As a screen writer
As a translator
As a film critic
Awards
See also
Notes
Reflist
