milestones

Year
Milestone
 
Began acting career, performing in numerous plays with Theater Workshops in Iran
 
Film debut in the family drama, "Gozaresh (The Report)"; helmed by world renowned director, Abbas Kia-Rostami
 
Acted in "Shatranje Bad" (loosely translated "Chess With the Wind"); directed by Mohammad Reza Aslani; film was banned in her home country
1978 
Appeared in "Sootah Delaan (Heart-brokens)"; helmed by legendary Iranian writer/director, Ali Hatami; film was banned in her home country
1978 
Emigrated to Britain, where she completed her education and continued acting in the theater
1987 
Acted in Los Angeles stage productions, where she met her future husband
2003 
Received International acclaim portraying Ben Kingsley's wife in Vadim Perelman's "House of Sand and Fog"; earned a Best Supporting Actress Academy Award nomination
2005 
Joined the fourth season of the FOX drama "24" as a member of a terrorist cell
2005 
Co-starred with Tom Wilkinson and Laura Linney in "The Exorcism of Emily Rose"
2006 
Cast in Paul Weitz's political satire "American Dreamz"
2006 
Played Dr. Kavita Rao in the third installment of the "X-Men" series, "X-Men: The Last Stand"
2006 
Joined the short-lived CBS crime drama, "Smith"
2006 
Cast in Catherine Hardwicke's biblical film "The Nativity Story"
2008 
Appeared in the coming-of-age drama "The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2"
2008 
Portrayed Saddam's first wife in "House of Saddam," a co-production between BBC and HBO films, about the rise and fall of Saddam Hussein
2009 
Portrayed the aunt of the film's title character in "The Stoning of Soraya M."; based on the true story and adapted from French-Iranian journalist Freidoune Sahebjam's 1994 novel of the same name
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