Jasmin Tabatabai

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Jasmin Tabatabai

Jasmin Tabatabai (Persian: یاسمین طباطبائی [jɒːsˈmiːn tæbɒːtæbɒːˈʔiː]; born June 8, 1967 in Tehran, Iran) is a German-Iranian singer, songwriter and actress.

Life and work

Jasmin Tabatabai's mother is German, and her father is Iranian. Jasmin Tabatabai was born and lived in Tehran until the 1979 Islamic Revolution, at which point she migrated with her mother to Germany. After her completion of school, she studied drama in the arts college in Stuttgart. Soon after that, she entered into the film industry and has since starred or co-starred in over forty films. She was discovered for the screen 1992 as main character in the Swiss feature film Children of the Open Road, what brought her the award as best actress at the Amiens Film Festival in France. During her early work as actress in Berlin, she co-founded the band Even Cowgirls get the Blues as singer and songwriter.

The 1997 German film Bandits exposed Jasmin Tabatabai to a larger audience. In addition to her acting role in the film, she also wrote and performed many of the songs for the soundtrack. The record for the film sold more than seven hundred thousand copies. She also voiced Megara in the German dub of Hercules.

Tabatabai's first album as a solo artist, Only Love, was released in 2002 along with the single After You Killed Me. Soon after she founded her own record label, polytrash. She also composed songs for the soundtrack of the 2004 movie Iron Jawed Angels together with the American singer Tico Zamora, whom she had married the year before.

Awards

1997 Bavarian Film Award, Best Film Score

Selected filmography

1992 Children of the Open Road
1997 Bandits
2000 Gripsholm
2000 No Place to Go
2005 Fremde Haut
2006 Atomised
2006 Four Minutes
2006 Fay Grim
2007 Blood and Chocolate
2008 Der Baader Meinhof Komplex
2009 Altiplano

Music

1997 Bandits soundtrack
2002 Only Love
2004 Iron Jawed Angels soundtrack
2007 Blood and Chocolate soundtrack
2007 I ran

Jasmin Tabatabai & David Klein Orchester

2011 Eine Frau

External links

Jasmin Tabatabai at the Internet Movie Database
Official homepage

Authority control	WorldCat VIAF: 7065427 LCCN: no2002088328 ISNI: 0000 0001 1467 029X GND: 135052475

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Name	Tabatabai, Jasmin
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Short description	German actor
Date of birth	June 8, 1967
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