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Nazanin Boniadi

1979 - Today

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Nazanin Boniadi (; [nɑːzæˈniːn bonjɑːˈdiː]; born 1980) is a British actress and activist. Born in Tehran and raised in London, she attended university in the United States, where she landed her first major acting role as Leyla Mir in the soap opera General Hospital (2007–2009) and its spin-off General Hospital: Night Shift (2007). Since then, Boniadi has played Nora in the sitcom How I Met Your Mother (2011), Fara Sherazi in the spy thriller series Homeland (2013–2014), Esther in the historical drama film Ben-Hur (2016), Clare Quayle in the sci-fi thriller series Counterpart (2017–2018), Zahra Kashani in the action thriller film Hotel Mumbai (2018), and Bronwyn in the first season of the fantasy series The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power (2022). She was an Amnesty International spokesperson from 2009 to 2015 and served as a board member for the Center for Human Rights in Iran from October 2015 until February 2021. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in 31 different languages on Wikipedia. Nazanin Boniadi is the 7,136th most popular actor (down from 6,141st in 2024), the 432nd most popular biography from Iran (down from 418th in 2019) and the 11th most popular Iranian Actor.

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Among ACTORS

Among actors, Nazanin Boniadi ranks 7,138 out of 13,578Before her are Ben Browder, Tom Lenk, Louise Bourgoin, Yuichi Nakamura, Todd Field, Claudia Koll, Martha Mansfield, and Giuliana De Sio. After her are Evelyn Venable, Collin Chou, Markie Post, and DeObia Oparei.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1979, Nazanin Boniadi ranks 231Before her are Marielle Franco, Selçuk Bayraktar, Rachael Leigh Cook, Benji Madden, Fábio Simplício, and Kota Minami. After her are Primož Kozmus, Epiphanius I of Ukraine, Mike Vogel, Joaquim Rodríguez, Neill Blomkamp, and Nick Stahl.

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In Iran

Among people born in Iran, Nazanin Boniadi ranks 432 out of 631Before her are Sardar Azmoun (1995), Harold Nicolson (1886), Hossein Shahabi (1967), Masoumeh Ebtekar (1960), Fatemeh Rahbar (1964), and Ahmad NikTalab (1934). After her are Abbas Nilforoushan (1966), Aylar Lie (1984), Hadi Choopan (1987), Parviz Parastui (1955), Masih Alinejad (1976), and Parviz Davoodi (1952).

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Among ACTORS In Iran

Among actors born in Iran, Nazanin Boniadi ranks 11Before her are Golshifteh Farahani (1983), Irán Eory (1939), Homayoun Ershadi (1947), Marshall Manesh (1950), Navid Negahban (1968), and Leila Hatami (1972). After her are Parviz Parastui (1955), Shahab Hosseini (1974), Mostafa Zamani (1982), Jasmin Tabatabai (1967), Zar Amir Ebrahimi (1981), and Taraneh Alidoosti (1984).