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Forouzan
Bandar-e Anzali, Iran
Forouzan (also spelled Foroozan) was born in Bandar-e Anzali, Iran. Her real name was Parvin Kheirbakhsh. She started her career by dubbing films. Her first movie was Sahel-e Ente…
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Forouzan (also spelled Foroozan) was born in Bandar-e Anzali, Iran. Her real name was Parvin Kheirbakhsh. She started her career by dubbing films. Her first movie was Sahel-e Entezar. She acted in many popular Iranian films and also worked with visionary directors of the Mowj-e Now, such as Dariush Mehrjui (Dayere-ye Mina) and Ali Hatami (Baba Shamal). She started her cinematic career as a voice-over actress. In 1964 she starred in Siamak Yasemi's Sahele Entezar, but it was Ganje Qarun, another film by Yasemi, that made her very famous. She co-starred in this film with Fardin. After Ganj-e Qarun Fardin and Forouzan made a golden cinematic couple and co-starred in some of the highest-grossing films of the era, known as Persian Films or Film Farsi (in Persian: Filme Farsi). Persian Film was the popular genre of movies produced in Iran before the Iranian revolution of 1979. Siamak Yasemi, Iraj Ghaderi, Shapur Gharib and Fereydun Goleh were some of the other famous directors that she collaborated with. After the 1979 revolution Forouzan was banned from playing in movies and grew more and more isolated. She rarely conducted interviews and died on 24 January 2016 in Tehran. After Forouzan's death, Persian-language websites and forums dedicated posts and articles in her memory. Her popularity remained intact despite not having acted in a new film since 1978
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2019
Filmfarsi
Movie (archive footage)
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1978
The Cycle
Movie Zahra
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1977
Stab in the Back
Movie Pari
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1976
Khodahafez koochooloo
Movie
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1976
The Big Appointment
Movie Shirin
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1973
The White Clove
Movie
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1973
The Captain
Movie Darya
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1973
Parizad (Fairy Child)
Movie Parizad / Fari
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1972
The Dagger
Movie Banafsheh
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1972
Zafar
Movie Fati
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1972
The Lover
Movie Behjat Tighi
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1972
Ghalandar
Movie Eshrat
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1972
Notorious
Movie Badri
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1972
The Sorceress
Movie
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1972
Fireworks of the City
Movie
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1971
Heydar
Movie Aghdas
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1971
Baba Shamal
Movie Shokat-ol-Molook
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1971
Ayyoob
Movie Maryam (Shirin) / Shahin
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1971
Beauty on the Block
Movie Nazi
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1970
A Man from the South of the City
Movie Atash
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1970
Sogoli
Movie Sogoli
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1970
Dancer of the City
Movie Pari
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1970
The Owner of Hell
Movie Talaa
- 1970
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1970
Mojeze-ye ghalbha
Movie
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1969
Shahrashoob
Movie Shahrashoob
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1969
Wada'an ya Faqr
Movie Leila
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1969
Dokhtar-e Shaah-e Parian
Movie Fereshteh
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1969
Büyük Yemin
Movie Ayşe
- 1969
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1969
Behesth Door Nist
Movie
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1969
Bride of Bianca
Movie
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1969
Tak Khal
Movie
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1968
Yusuf and Zulaikha
Movie Zulaikha
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1968
The Star of the Seven Skies
Movie Firoozeh
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1968
Separate Beds
Movie Mehri
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1968
The Seven Cities of Love
Movie
- 1968
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1968
Ghoroube botparastan
Movie
