# Tannaz Tabatabaei

Tannaz Tabatabaei (Persian: طناز طباطبایی; born May 10, 1983) is an Iranian actress. She has received various accolades, including two Crystal Simorgh for her performances in Drown (2020) and Without Her (2022) and two Iran's Film Critics and Writers Association Awards for The Voices (2009) and Villa Dwellers (2017). Tabatabaei earned three Hafez Award nominations for her roles in Drown, Rebel, and Without Her.

## Early life

She has been active since 2000 acting in Cinema, TV-Series, and Theatre and started her occupation by passing Hiva-Film acting free classes she has chosen Zabih after a month but her first role as an actress in cinema was I Saw Your Dad Last Night, Aida by Rasul Sadr Ameli.
Tannaz shows her abilities by acting in Mive Mamnoue which was one of the main roles and she completed it in the best way for her role in Marham.
In 2009, she won an award for best supporting actress for her role as Negar in Sadaha.
In 2010, she presented for acting in two banned screening movies, Gozaresh yek jashn directed by Ebrahim Hatamikia and Parinaz directed by Bahram Bahramian.
In 2017, she won the award for best supporting actress for her role as Sima in Vilaeiha at the 11th Critics' Choice movie award for Best Iranian film.
She has also worked in music and painting except cinema.

## Filmography
### Film

| Year | Title | Role | Director | Notes |
| 2004 | Aida, I Saw Your Father Last Night | Tannaz | Rasul Sadr Ameli | |
| 2007 | The Music Box | Miss Sa'adati | Farzad Motamen | |
| 2007 | Four Finger | Marjan | Saeed Soheili | |
| 2007 | Benighted | Maryam | Farzad Motamen | |
| 2008 | Tehrani Boy | Leili Bidel | Kazem Rastgoftar | |
| 2008 | Voices | Negar | Farzad Motamen | Nominated – Crystal Simorgh Fajr Film Festival Award for Best Supporting Actress Won – Iran's Film Critics and Writers Association Award for Best Supporting Actress |
| 2008 | Shirin | Herself | Abbas Kiarostami | |
| 2009 | Mizak | Setareh | Hossein Ali Layalestani | |
| 2009 | Tehran Tehran | Niloofar | Mehdi Karampour | |
| 2010 | Salve | Maryam | Alireza Davood Nejad | Won – Iran's Film Critics and Writers Association Diploma Honorary for Best Actress |
| 2010 | Devoted | Gandom | Bahman Goudarzi | |
| 2010 | The Report of a Celebration | Herself | Ebrahim Hatamikia | |
| 2011 | Orange Suit | Herself | Dariush Mehrjui | |
| 2012 | The 7th | Nazanin | Masoud Gharagozlo | Short film |
| 2013 | Hush! Girls Don't Scream | Shirin | Pouran Derakhshandeh | Nominated – Hafez Award for Best Actress Motion Picture |
| 2013 | The Last 50 Steps | Havzhin | Kiumars Pourahmad | |
| 2014 | Resident of the Middle Floor | | Shahab Hosseini | |
| 2014 | Hard Makeup | Ladan | Hamid Nematollah | |
| 2015 | Crazy Rook | Mandana | Abolhassan Davoudi | Nominated – Crystal Simorgh Fajr Film Festival Award for Best Actress |
| 2015 | Death of the Fish | Farideh | Rohollah Hejazi | |
| 2015 | Twenty Weeks | Dr. Bahrami | Masoud Gharagozloo | |
| 2016 | Arvand | Leila | Pouriya Azarbaijani | |
| 2016 | Sound and Fury | Hana Sarafraz | Houman Seyyedi | Nominated – Crystal Simorgh Fajr Film Festival Award for Best Actress |
| 2016 | Delighted | Bahar | Abdolreza Kahani | Unreleased film |
| 2017 | Villa Dwellers | Sima | Monir Gheidi | Won – Iran's Film Critics and Writers Association Award for Best Supporting Actress |
| 2017 | Fairy Out of Wedluck | Hakimeh | Bahram Bahramian | |
| 2018 | Millionaire of Miami | Mahsa | Mostafa Ahmadi | |
| 2019 | Tala | Leila | Parviz Shahbazi | |
| 2019 | Russian | Marjan | Amir Hossein Saghafi | |
| 2020 | Drown | Parvaneh | Mohammad Kart | Won – Crystal Simorgh Fajr Film Festival Award for Best Supporting Actress Nominated – Iran's Film Critics and Writers Association Award for Best Supporting Actress |
| 2020 | Sun Children | Ali's mother | Majid Majidi | Cameo |
| 2022 | Without Her | Roya | Arin Vazirdaftari | Won – Crystal Simorgh Fajr Film Festival Award for Best Actress |

### Television

| Year | Title | Role | Director | Notes | Network |
| 2000 | The Sacrifice | Aminah | Abbas Moradiyan | TV series | |
| 2001 | Youth | | Saeed Soltani | TV series | |
| 2007 | Pecker | Pegah | Farzad Motamen | TV film | IRIB TV1 |
| 2007 | The Forbidden Fruit | Ghazaleh Fotouhi | Hassan Fathi | TV series | IRIB TV2 |
| 2009–2010 | In the Eye of the Wind | Farangis | Masoud Jafari Jozani | TV series | IRIB TV1 |
| 2009 | Open Parenthesis | Niki Golshahr | Kiumars Pourahmad | TV series, Nominated – Hafez Award for Best Actress Television Series Comedy | |
| 2013 | The Red Hat | Herself | Iraj Tahmasb | TV program | |

### Web

| Year | Title | Role | Director | Platform |
| 2011 | Frozen Heart | Shiva Ghaem Maghami | Mohammad Hosein Latifi | |
| 2013 | King of Ear | Gandom Shoja'at | Davood Mir Bagheri | |
| 2022 | Rebel | Tala Motallaee | Mohammad Kart | Filimo |
| TBA | Brave | | Jamshid Mahmoudi | Filmnet |

## Theatre

| Year | Title | Director |
| 2010 | Lesson | Dariush Mehrjui |
| 2010 | A Little Higher | Arvand Dashtarai |
| 2011 | Tin Tin: The Secret of Mondas Castle | Arvand Dashtarai |
| 2012 | The Gardener of Death | Arvand Dashtarai |
| 2016–2017 | Love Letters from the Middle East | Kioumars Moradi |
| 2018 | Trauma | Afsaneh Mahian |
| 2019 | Crime and Punishment | Reza Servati |
| 2022 | 300 | Amir Jadidi |