Pegah Ahangarani

Pegah Ahangarani (Persian: پگاه آهنگرانی‎; born July 24, 1984), is an Iranian actress and film director. She is the daughter of actress and director Manijeh Hekmat and movie director Jamshid Ahangarani. She has acted in 11 Iranian feature films since 2001 and made at least one documentary.^[1]

Filmography

• The Singing Cat (1991 - Directed by Kambozia Partoyi)
• The Girl in Sneakers (1999 - Directed by Rasul Sadr Ameli)
• Women's Prison (2002 - Directed by Manijeh Hekmat)
• Our Days (2002 - Directed by Rakhshan Bani-Etemad)
• Maxx (2005 - Directed by Saman Moghadam)
• Sweet Jam (2006 - Directed by Arezoo Petrossian)
• 3 Women (2008 - Directed by Manijeh Hekmat)
• Shirin (2008 - Directed by Abbas Kiarostami)
• Maritime silk road (2010 - Directed by Mohammad Bozorgnia)
• Vorood-e-Aghayan Mamnoo (2011 - Directed by Rambod Javan)^[2][3]
• Trapped (2012, Parviz Shahbazi)

Awards

• Best Actress Award, for The Girl in Sneakers, 23rd Cairo International Film Festival, Egypt, December 1999
• Best Performance Award, for The Girl in Sneakers, 14th Isfahan International Film and Video Festival for Children and Young Adults, Iran, October 1999
• Best Supporting Actress for Trapped, 31st International Fajr Film Festival 2013 ^[4]

Arrest

Ahangarani was arrested on 27 July 2009 in the wake of the turmoil after the 2009 presidential election, allegedly for her work in support of opposition candidate Mir-Hossein Mousavi.^[5] She was later released but arrested again on 10 July 2011 prior to her planned trip to Germany to report on the 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup for the Persian service of the German broadcaster Deutsche Welle.^[6] She was released from Evin Prison two weeks later on the equivalent of $84,000 bail after expressions of "outrage among foreign governments and human rights organizations".^[7]

Sources

• Farhangsara Awards
• Mini-biography in Persian

External links

• Pegah Ahangarani at the Internet Movie Database
• A review of The Girl in the Sneakers

References