# Mahnaz Afshar

Mahnaz Afshar (Persian: مهناز افشار; born June 10, 1977) is an Iranian actress. She gained wide recognition in the record-breaking film Cease Fire (2006). Afshar is one of Iran's highest-paid actresses, She has received various accolades, including a Crystal Cymorgh, two Hafez Awards and an Iran's Film Critics and Writers Association Award.

## Life and career

Afshar was born in Tehran, Imperial State of Iran. She graduated in natural science in high school. After graduation, one of her relatives who was the Theater Affairs Assistant in "Soureh" college introduced her to "Hannaneh" Art institute. Having studied video editions in the following years, she participated in the assembly job of "Ketāb-e Avval as a Golddigger" training materials, directed by Dariush Mehrjui.
Later on, she was invited by Shamsi Fazlollahi to act in a TV series called Gomshodeh (Lost) directed by Masoud Navabi, making her first official play in the TV industry. Her professional career continued by acting in a movie called "Doostan" (Friends) directed by Abdollah Eskandari. The film, however, was not released in movie theaters due to complications with the authorities regarding the story and morals of the film.
Her first official appearance as an actress in the cinema industry debuted in a work called "Shour-e Eshgh" (Passion of Love), which received positive reviews by audiences and critics of the time. Having gained substantial fame for her act, she later appeared in "Atash-bas" (Ceasefire), a major hit and "Salad-e Fasl" (Season Salad).
Afshar is one of the judges of Persia's Got Talent, a franchise of the British talent show Got Talent, which is aired on MBC Persia.

## Filmography
### Film

| Year | Title | Role | Director |
| 1999 | Friends | Sara | Ali Shah Hatami |
| 2000 | The Young Lions | Leila | Mohsen Mohseni Nasab |
| 2001 | The Passion of Love | Sahar | Nader Moghaddas |
| 2001 | Gray | Bita | Mehrdad Mir Fallah |
| 2002 | Gem | Neda | Asghar Hashemi |
| 2002 | A Girl in Cage | Narges | Ghodratollah Solh Mirzayi |
| 2003 | Poisonous Honey | Sharareh | Ebrahim Sheibani |
| 2004 | Coma | Maryam | Arash Moayerian |
| 2004 | 13 Cats on the Roof | Leila | Ali Abdolalizadeh |
| 2005 | Season Salad | Mehr Angiz | Fereydoun Jeyrani |
| 2005 | Aquarium | Shirin | Iraj Ghaderi |
| 2006 | Men at Work | Sahar | Mani Haghighi |
| 2006 | Cease Fire | Sayeh | Tahmineh Milani |
| 2006 | Who Killed Amir? | Marjan | Mehdi Karampour |
| 2006 | Trap | Nazanin | Sirous Alvand |
| 2007 | The Trial | Negar | Iraj Ghaderi |
| 2007 | The Boss | Tala | Masoud Kimiai |
| 2007 | Kalagh Par | Sara | Sharam Shah Hosseini |
| 2008 | Reflection | Nasim | Reza Karimi |
| 2008 | Invitation | Shaida | Ebrahim Hatamikia |
| 2008 | Shirin | Woman in audience | Abbas Kiarostami |
| 2008 | Tonight is the Moonlight Night | Sahar | Hadi Karimi |
| 2009 | The Day Goes and the Night Comes | Foujan Rahaei | Omid Bonakdar, Keyvan Alimohammadi |
| 2009 | Poopak and Mash Mashallah | Poopak | Farzad Motamen |
| 2010 | Pay Back | Sara | Tahmineh Milani |
| 2010 | Memory | Parichehr | Nader Tarighat |
| 2010 | Eve's Daughter, Adam's Son | Mina | Rambod Javan |
| 2010 | The Third Floor | Young Lady | Bijan Mirbagheri |
| 2011 | Fairy Tale | Sarvin | Fereydoun Jeyrani |
| 2011 | Felicity Land | Laleh | Maziar Miri |
| 2012 | A Simple Love Story | Gandom | Saman Moghaddam |
| 2012 | Wooden Bridge | Shirin | Mehdi Karampour |
| 2012 | The Snow on the Pines | Roya | Payman Moaadi |
| 2013 | No Where, No Body | Sanaz | Ebrahim Sheibani |
| 2013 | From Tehran to Paradise | Ghazal | Abolfazl Saffary |
| 2013 | Good to Be Back | Houri Yasaman | Dariush Mehrjui |
| 2014 | Metropole | Khatoon | Masoud Kimiai |
| 2014 | Alien | Sepideh | Bahram Tavakoli |
| 2014 | Teacher | Hedieh | Naser Saeidaf |
| 2015 | Sperm Whale | Rouya | Saman Moghaddam |
| 2016 | A House on 41st Street | Forough | Hamidreza Ghorbani |
| 2016 | Delighted | Tina | Abdolreza Kahani |
| 2017 | I Want to Dance | Maryam | Bahman Farman Ara |
| 2017 | Gilda | Gilda | Omid Bonakdar, Keyvan Alimohammadi |
| 2018 | Sperm Whale 2: Roya's Selection | Roya | Saman Moghaddam |
| 2018 | Axing | Niloufar | Behrouz Shoeibi |
| 2018 | Pig | Herself | Mani Haghighi |
| 2018 | Los Angeles Tehran | Ayda | Tina Pakrevan |
| 2019 | The Agitation | Darya | Fereydoun Jeyrani |
| 2019 | Suddenly a Tree | Mahtab | Safi Yazdanian |
| 2019 | Oath | Razia | Mohsen Tanabandeh |
| 2019 | Hotel New Moon | Noushin | Takefumi Tsutsui |
| 2019 | Kingslayer | Ayda | Vahid Amirkhani |
| 2019 | Blue Like the Color of the Sky | Herself | Amir Rafiee |

### Web

| Year | Title | Role | Director | Platform |
| 2015 | Love is Not Closed | Nafas | Bijan Birang | Video CD |
| 2016 | Romance | Gisou Barazandeh | Manouchehr Hadi | Video CD |
| 2018 | Golshifteh | Raheleh Golshifteh | Behrouz Shoeibi | Filimo |

### Television

| Year | Title | Role | Director | Notes | Network |
| 1998 | Lost | Sahar | Masoud Navabi | TV series | IRIB TV1 |
| 2013 | Red Hat | Herself | Iraj Tahmasb | TV program | IRIB TV2 |
| 2020–present | Persia's Got Talent | Judge | | Talent show | MBC Persia |