Gender
Female
Birthday, Age
1980 May 22 (45
years old)
Place of Birth
Tehran, Iran
Nazanin Boniadi
Biography
Nazanin Boniadi was born in Tehran, Iran, at the height of the Iranian Revolution; her parents relocated to London shortly thereafter. She performed violin and ballet as a young girl.
She attended a private high school and later moved to the United States where she earned a bachelor's degree, with honors, in biological sciences from the University of California, Irvine. At UCI, she won the Chang Pin-Chun Undergraduate Research Award for molecular research involving cancer treatment and heart transplant rejection. She was also Assistant Editor-in-Chief of MedTimes, UCI's undergraduate medical newspaper.
Nazanin Boniadi is rapidly making her mark in both film and television. She co-starred as CIA analyst Fara Sherazi on seasons three and four of the Emmy and Golden Globe award-winning drama Homeland (2011), for which she shared a 2015 SAG Award nomination in the Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series category. Boniadi appeared in the 2016 MGM-Paramount remake of Ben-
Known For
Actress
( 1 )
Full Filmography
The Voice of Dust and Ash
Movie • 2022-11-18
The Deep End
Tv • 2010-01-21
Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg
Tv • 2022-09-04
The Kelly Clarkson Show
Tv • 2019-09-09