Golshifteh Farahani Iranian Actress Known for Extraction

Golshifteh Farahani is an Iranian actress born on 10 July 1983 in Tehran. Her best-known titles on this site are Extraction (2020) and Extraction 2 (2023).

Early life

Behzad Farahani is her father. She studied at Islamic Azad University.

Career

Records list The Pear Tree (1998) as her earliest screen credit. In the 2000s, she appeared in Body of Lies (2008, as Aisha) and About Elly (2009). The 2010s brought Exodus: Gods and Kings (2014, as Nefertari) and Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell no Tales (2017). Her 2020s credits include Invasion (2021) and Alpha (2025).

In all, 46 films and one TV series appear in her credits from 1998 to 2026. Action is the most frequent genre among her listed titles (4), followed by drama (3) and fantasy (2). The newest title on record is One Minute to Midnight, from 2026. Of her two titles with worldwide box-office figures on record, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell no Tales (2017) has the highest, at $795 million.

Chris Hemsworth appears in two of her listed titles. Another co-star who recurs in her credits is Olga Kurylenko (two titles). Ridley Scott directed two of her titles on record. Sam Hargrave is credited as director on two of them. The records note piano as her instrument.

Recognition

Golshifteh Farahani received the Knight of the National Order of Merit in 2021. Further recognition came with the Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany.