FrameThrower · Actors · Golshifteh Farahani
Golshifteh Farahani
3 films · 188 frames · top-billed in 3 · 2011–2018
Born 10 July 1983 · Tehran, Iran
Golshifteh Farahani (گلشیفته فراهانی) was born on 10th July 1983 and is an international Iranian actress. Golshifteh Farahani started her acting career in theatre at the age of 6. Since then she has played in more than 40 films, many of which have been screened or awarded at international festivals. Amongst her famous Iranian films are Bahman Ghobadi's Half Moon, Dariush Mehrjui's Santoori , Rasool Mollagholipour's M for Mother and Asghar Farhadi's About Elly. Starring in Ridley Scotts Body of Lies (2008), alongside Leonardo Di Caprio and Russel Crowe, Golshifteh Farahani became the first Iranian to act in a major Hollywood production.…
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 3 films · 188 frames · top-billed in 3 · 2011–2018
- Knight of the National Order of Merit2021
- Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
How their films are shot
Measured across 188 frames from the 3 films we hold. This is the look of the work Golshifteh takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 3 films we hold, 47% of their frames are day, 44% low key — the look of the work Golshifteh takes.
Time of day
Lighting
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Mood
Films in the library
Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.
A reference database for filmmakers
FrameThrower is a fully machine-searchable film database and visual reference library — all 188 frames from Golshifteh Farahani's 3 films, and 5,000+ films besides, indexed frame by frame and readable by AI. Search it in plain language, from a reference image, or by colour; call it from an API, an MCP server or an SDK. It's the reference layer for making the next movie.