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Niki Karimi


Niki Karimi was born and raised in Tehran, Iran. She has been active in theatre since elementary school, and has said that her early interest in film and literature inspired her to become an actress. She started her professional career when actor Jamshid Gorgin discovered her in a school play.
In 1990, she was cast as a young bride in Behrooz Afkhami's hit film The Bride. It proved to be a breakthrough role.
Following this part, she worked with many Iranian film makers such as Darush Mehrjuii, Masoud Kimiai and ...
Niki has won many awards nationally and internationally such as San Sebastian film festival award for best actress. [2] She has also recently been on the jury for renowned film festivals, including the Locarno International Film Festival and Thessaloniki International Film Festival and Berlin Film Festival and also the 60th Cannes Film Festival.
Expanding on her career as an actor, she wrote and directed the documentary To Have or Not to Have (2001).
In 2001, she won her first award as a director in Iran's Rain film festival for her work To Have or Not to Have, which was produced by renowned Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami.[3]
Nominated at the 2005 Cannes Film Festival for her feature film directorial debut One Night (2005), she said that acting no longer satisfies her and she would like to direct more movies.[4]
In addition to film, Karimi has also done some translating work. In 1999 she released her first translation work, Marlon Brando's biography Songs My Mother Taught Me, which she translated from English to Persian.
Her third film as director, Final whistle (2011), won three awards at The Vesoul International Film Festival of Asian Cinema in Vesoul, France.
She has been nominated for best actress award in fajr film festival in 2011 for I Am His Wife (2011)

 
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