Pegah Ahangarani
Pegah Ahangarani (; born 24 July 1984) is an Iranian actress and film director. She is the daughter of actress and film director Manijeh Hekmat and movie director Jamshid Ahangarani. She has acted in 11 Iranian feature films since 2001 and made one documentary. She started her cinematic career by starring in the movie "Singing Cat" (Kambuzia Partovi) in 1990 at the age of six. Her breakthrough film role was playing Tadai in the movie "The Girl in the Sneakers" for which she won the Best Actress award at the Cairo International Film Festival. Her next role was in  Women's Prison (2002, Manijeh Hekmat) which won the award for best film and screenplay in the sixth House of Cinema Ceremony. In 2001, along with Baran Kosari, she starred in the documentary "Our Times", which is about the presidential election. Arrests. 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. 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. 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".