Setareh Pesyani

Setareh Pesyani
ستاره پسیانی
Pesyani at the 2019 Fajr Film Festival
Born	(1985-09-08) September 8, 1985 Tehran, Iran
Nationality	Iranian
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1990–present
Parent(s)	Atila Pesyani (father) Fatemeh Naghavi (mother)
Relatives	Jamileh Sheykhi (grandmother)

Setareh Pesyani (Persian: ستاره پسیانی; born September 8, 1985) is an Iranian actress. She has won an Honorary Diploma at the 39th Fajr Film Festival and an Urban International Film Festival Award for her performance in the war drama Yadoo (2021).

Career

Setareh Pesyani is daughter of Atila Pesyani, the late Iranian actor. Her debut happened when she was 5 years old, in a play directed by her father. She has directed the play of ‘Magic Musical Instrument’ (1995), when she was 13. In 1991, she entered cinema by acting in World's Greatest Dad. She has played in several movies and series such as Unfinished Narrations (2006), Three Women (2007), The Third Wave (2008), Office No.13 (2009), and No Men Allowed (2011). She has won Best Actress Award of The 28th Fajr Theater Festival for playing in The House (2009) play.

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Director	Notes
1991	World's Greatest Dad		Darioush Farhang
2006	Unfinished Narrations	Setareh	Pourya Azarbayjani
2008	Three Women		Manijeh Hekmat
2008	Avantage		Ali Ahmadzadeh	Short Film
	Be Ready		Behrang Tofighi
	Shirin	Woman in Audience	Abbas Kiarostami
	The Third Wave	Farideh	Farid Sajjadi Hosseini
2011	No Men Allowed	Reyhaneh	Rambod Javan
2013	Butcher Angels	Gisoo	Soheil Salimi
2015	The Nameless Alley	Fatemeh	Hatef Alimardani
2016	A Dragon Arrives!	Yagshakha	Mani Haghighi
	Lantouri	Maryam's Friend	Reza Dormishian
	Inversion	Soodabeh	Behnam Behzadi
	Twenty Weeks	Yasaman	Masoud Gharagozlu
	Phenomenon		Ali Ahmadzadeh
2017	Helen	Negin	Ali Akbar Saghafi
2018	Reza	Violet	Alireza Motamedi
2019	Jamshidieh	Nafiseh	Yalda Jebeli
	The Warden	Ahmad's Wife	Nima Javidi
	Gholamreza Takhti	Hotel Worker	Bahram Tavakoli
	Latyan	Maryam	Ali Teymoori
2020	The Good, the Bad, the Corny 2: Secret Army	Mozhdeh	Peyman Ghasem Khani
	I'm Scared		Behnam Behzadi
	Amphibious	Azadeh	Borzou Niknejad
	After the Incident		Pouria Heidary Oureh
2021	Yadoo		Mehdi Jafari
	Last Lullaby in Tehran		Mohmaad Vahdani	Short Film
2022	Grassland	Shabnam	Kazem Daneshi
2023	Leather Jacket		Hossein Mirzamohammadi
TBA	48FM Radio		Kiarash Asadizadeh
TBA	Exit Permit		Kiarash Asadizadeh

Web

Year	Title	Role	Director	Platform
2014	I'm Just Kidding		Mehran Modiri	Video CD
2019	Blue Whale	Ghazal	Fereydoun Jeyrani	Filimo
2019–2020	Rhino	Nazanin	Kiarash Asadizadeh	Filimo, Namava
2021	Predictor	Herself	Pejman Jamshidi	Namava
	Once Upon a Time in Iran	Parvin	Tina Pakravan	Namava
2022	Jeyran	Noghreh	Hassan Fathi	Filimo

Television

Year	Title	Role	Director	Notes	Network
2003	Crystal Garden		Rambod Javan	TV series	IRIB TV3
2008	This Loneliness	Sheida	Saeed Ebrahimifar	TV film	Sahar TV
	All My Children	Bahar	Marzieh Boroumand	TV series	IRIB TV1
2009	Office No.13		Seyyed Vahid Hosseini	TV series	IRIB TV1
2021	Under Ground	Farangis	Jalil Saman	TV series	IRIB TV1