Forouzan
Born: 1937-08-26 in Bandar-e Anzali, Iran
Died: 2016-06-24
Known For: Acting
Biography
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
Filmography
2019
- Filmfarsi as (archive footage)
1978
- Posht o khanjar
- The Cycle as Zahra
1976
- The Big Appointment as Shirin
- Khodahafez koochooloo
1973
- The Captain as Darya
- The White Clove
- Parizad (Fairy Child) as Parizad / Fari
1972
- The Lover as Behjat Tighi
- Ghalandar as Eshrat
- Zafar as Fati
- The Dagger as Banafsheh
- The Notorious as Badri
- The Sorceress
- Fireworks of the City
1971
- Baba Shamal as Shokat-ol-Molook
- Beauty on the Block as Nazi
- Heydar as Aghdas
- Ayyoob as Maryam (Shirin) / Shahin
1970
- Dancer of the City as Pari
- Sogoli as Sogoli
- The Owner of Hell as Talaa
- A Man from the South of the City as Atash
- Mojeze-ye ghalbha
- Ram Karadane Marde Vahshi
1969
- Büyük Yemin as Ayşe
- Shahrashoob as Shahrashoob
- Wada'an ya Faqr as Leila
- Dokhtar-e Shaah-e Parian as Fereshteh
- Tak Khal
- Bride of Bianca
- Behesth Door Nist
- A Girl Is Going to Die Tonight
1968
- Tahran Macerası as Shirin
- Yusuf and Zulaikha as Zulaikha
- Ghoroube botparastan
- Separate Beds as Mehri
- The Star of the Seven Skies as Firoozeh
- Shokoh-e-javanmardi
- It's Written in the Stars
1967
- That Man from Teheran as Real Sepehr's Fiancée
- The Gate of Fate
- Dalahoo
- Actor's Wheel as Shirin
- The Luminescent Jewel as Shirin
1966
- Hashem Khan
- Escapism
- No Kidding, I'll Be Offended as Asal
- Champion Shamsi as Shamsi (Shamsollah)
1965
- Ten Dangerous Shadows
- Croesus' Treasure as Shirin
- The Bride of the Sea as Maryam
1964
- The Pleasure of Sin as Sahar
- The Humans as Goli
1963
- Sahel-e Entezar as Maryam