Niki Karimi
Template:Short description Script error: No such module "infobox".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".Template:Main otherScript error: No such module "Check for clobbered parameters".Template:Wikidata image Niki Karimi (Template:Langx; born 10 November 1971) is an Iranian actress and filmmaker.[1] Regarded as "the most prominent figure among the young generations coming after post-Islamic Revolution Iranian Cinema",[2] she has received various accolades, including a Crystal Simorgh, three Hafez Awards, an Iran Cinema Celebration Award, and three Iran's Film Critics and Writers Association Awards.
Born in Tehran, Karimi began her career in the late 1980s. She received critical acclaim for her performance in Sara (1992), for which she won the best actress award at the San Sebastian Film Festival.[3]
Early life
Niki Karimi was born on November 10, 1971, in Tehran, Iran. Her parents are both from Tafresh. She has been active in theater since elementary school, and has said that her early interest in film and literature inspired her to become an actress.
Career
In 1990, she was cast as a young bride in Behrooz Afkhami's hit film The Bride.
Karimi began her career in the late 1980s. She received critical acclaim for her performance in Sara (1992), for which she won the best actress award at the San Sebastian Film Festival.
Karimi has won many awards nationally and internationally for "Sara" such as San Sebastian film festival award for best actress.[4] She has also recently been on the jury for more than 20 renowned film festivals, including Karlovy Vary Film Festival, the Edinburgh International Film Festival, the Locarno International Film Festival and Thessaloniki International Film Festival and Berlin Film Festival and also the 60th Cannes Film Festival. She was the assistant of Abbas Kiarostami from 1992 to 2007.
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.[5]
Nominated at the 2005 Cannes Film Festival for her feature film directorial debut One Night (2005), she said that acting no longer satisfied her and she would like to direct more movies.[6]
In addition to films, Karimi has also done translating work. In 1999 she released her first translation, Marlon Brando's biography Songs My Mother Taught Me, which she translated from English to Persian. She also translated two books by Hanif Kureishi, a Pakistani-English writer.
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 the best actress award in Fajr Film Festival in 2011 for I Am His Wife (2011), directed by Mostafa Shayesteh.
She has been awarded recently by the jury of the Iranian Fajr Film ّFestival for her last film as best director, actress and producer. She also got a jury award for acting in two films, Wednesday, May 9 and Death of Fish.[7]
As a translator
| Year | Title |
|---|---|
| 2005 | Intimacy by Hanif Kureishi |
| 1999 | Songs My Mother Taught Me by Marlon Brando, Robert Lindsey |
As a film critic
Filmography
Film
| Year | Title | Role | Director | Notes | Ref(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990 | Temptation | Gohar | Jamshid Heydari | [23] | |
| 1991 | The Bride | Mahin Nazeri | Behrouz Afkhami | [24] | |
| 1993 | The Wolf's Trail | Negin | Masoud Kimiai | [25] | |
| Sara | Sara | Dariush Mehrjui | [26] | ||
| 1995 | The Scent of Joseph's Shirt | Shirin | Ebrahim Hatamikia | ||
| Pari | Pari | Dariush Mehrjui | |||
| 1997 | Wind and Poppy | Ziaeddin Dori | |||
| Minoo Watch Tower | Minoo | Ebrahim Hatamikia | |||
| Shadow by Shadow | Gila | Ali Zhekan | |||
| Psycho | Maryam | Dariush Farhang | |||
| 1998 | Jahan Pahlavan Takhti | Director's wife | Ali Hatami, Behrouz Afkhami | ||
| 1999 | Eve's Red Apple | Neda | Saeed Asadi | ||
| Two Women | Fereshteh | Tahmineh Milani | |||
| Girls in Expectancy | Roshanak | Rahman Rezaei | |||
| The Afflicted Generation | Rasoul Mollagholipour | ||||
| 2000 | The Mix | Dariush Mehrjui | |||
| Actor | Roya | Mohammad Ali Sadjadi | |||
| 2001 | ABC Africa | Abbas Kiarostami | as assistant director | ||
| A Thousand Women Like Me | Shahrzad | Ali Karimi | |||
| The Hidden Half | Fereshteh | Tahmineh Milani | |||
| To Have or Not to Have | Niki Karimi | also screenwriter | |||
| 2003 | The Fifth Reaction | Fereshteh | Tahmineh Milani | ||
| One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest | Yalda | Ahmad Reza Motamedi | |||
| 2004 | The Ransomer | Rana | Farzad Motamen | ||
| 2005 | One Night | Niki Karimi | also screenwriter | ||
| Top of the Tower | Leila | Kiumars Pourahmad | |||
| Gone with the Wind | Tahmineh | Sadra Abdollahi | |||
| 2006 | Wedding Dinner | Mitra | Ebrahim Vahidzadeh | ||
| Havana File | Zoya Fani | Alireza Raeesian | |||
| A Few Days Later | Shahrzad | Niki Karimi | also screenwriter | ||
| Who Killed Amir? | Ziba Zibadoost | Mehdi Karampour | |||
| Stars 2: She's a Star | Farzaneh Mashreghi | Fereydoun Jeyrani | |||
| 2007 | The Other Wife | Mahtab | Sirus Alvand | ||
| The Music Box | Ali's mother | Farzad Motamen | |||
| 2008 | Three Women | Minoo | Manijeh Hekmat | ||
| Women Are Angels | Nazanin | Shahram Shah Hosseini | |||
| Mr. Seven Colors | Firoozeh | Shahram Shah Hosseini | |||
| Shirin | Woman in Audience | Abbas Kiarostami | |||
| 2009 | Hot Chocolate | Banoo | Hamed Kolahdari | ||
| 24th Street | Nazanin | Saeed Asadi | |||
| Trial on the Street | Nasim | Masoud Kimiai | |||
| The Day Goes and the Night Comes | Marjan | Omid Bonakdar, Keyvan Alimohammadi | |||
| 2010 | Hey to Love | Mitra | Asghar Naeemi | ||
| Democracy in Daylight | Ms. Ehsani | Ali Atshani | |||
| Two Sisters | Mahtab | Mohammad Banki | |||
| 2011 | The Playfellow | Naghmeh | Gholam Reza Ramezani | ||
| Wakefulness | Yasaman | Farzad Motamen | |||
| Final Whistle | Sahar | Niki Karimi | also screenwriter, producer | ||
| Crime | Atefeh | Masoud Kimiai | |||
| Along the City | Fariba | Ali Atshani | |||
| The Princess of the Moon | Elham Gharehkhani, Mehrtash Mahdavi | ||||
| Calm Streets | The Reporter | Kamal Tabrizi | |||
| 2012 | The Presiden's Cell Phone | Mrs. Tayebi | Ali Atshani | ||
| I'm His Wife | Shahla | Mostafa Shayesteh | |||
| 2013 | Annunciation to a Third Millennium Citizen | Mrs. Safaii | Mohammad Hadi Karimi | ||
| 2014 | Raspberry | Homa | Saman Salur | ||
| Life Is Elsewhere | Shahrzad | Manouchehr Hadi | |||
| 2015 | Wednesday, May 9 | Leila | Vahid Jalilvand | ||
| Night Shift | Roya | Niki Karimi | also screenwriter, producer | ||
| Death of the Fish | Tahmineh | Rouhollah Hejazi | |||
| 2016 | Stolen | Mina | Bijan Mirbagheri | ||
| 2017 | Human Comedy | Mohammad Hadi Karimi | |||
| Azar | Azar | Mohammad Hamzei | also producer | [27] | |
| Maybe It Wasn’t Love | Saeed Ebrahimifar | [28] | |||
| 2018 | The Truck | Kambuzia Partovi | [29] | ||
| Astigmatism | Mrs. Namiri | Majid Reza Mostafavi | [30] | ||
| 2020 | Atabai | Niki Karimi | also screenwriter, producer | [31] | |
| 2022 | Squad of Girls | Yeganeh Kamayi | Monir Gheidi | [32] | |
| Until Tomorrow | Ali Asgari | as producer | [33] | ||
| Laleh | Asadollah Niknejad | [34] | |||
| Template:TBA | A Time in Eternity | Mehdi Norouzian | as producer | [35] |
Web
| Year | Title | Role | Director | Platform | Ref(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | Forbidden | Parvaneh Asadzadeh | Amir Pourkian | Video CD | [36] |
| 2020–2021 | Blue Blood | Tina Fazlirad | Behrang Tofighi | Filimo, Namava | [37] |
| 2022 | Rebel | Shima | Mohammad Kart | Filimo | [38] |
| 2023–2024 | Seven | Kiarash Asadizadeh | Tamashakhaneh |
Television
| Year | Title | Role | Director | Network | Notes | Ref(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1995 | Life | Mohammad Reza A'alami | IRIB TV1 | TV series | [39] | |
| 2015–2016 | Kimia | Mahboubeh Maleki | Javad Afshar | IRIB TV2 | [40] | |
| 2023–2024 | Homeland | Shaparak Bahadori | Kamal Tabrizi | IRIB TV3 | [41] |
Awards and nominations
See also
- Iranian women
- Iranian cinema
- List of famous Persian women
- Persian women's movement
- Fajr International Film Festival
References
External links
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- Niki Karimi interview with Radio Zamaneh
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