Maryam Palizban
Maryam Palizban () is an Iranian film and stage actress. She graduated in performing arts and theatre studies at Tehran University-Faculty of fine arts in 2004 and got her Ph.D. degree at the Free University Berlin, Germany in 2014. She has been a research fellow on Performing martyrdom in ta'ziya as Shi'a Theatre-Ritual: "Martyrs on the Stage" within the project "Figurations of the Martyr in Near Eastern and European Literature” from 2012 to 2014 at the Center for literary and cultural research Berlin (). Her KHK (Käte Hamburger Kollegs) project is entitled "The Theatrical Space of Beliefs, Transcendence  and Immanence in Roman-Catholic and Shi'a-Islam: From Napoli to Rasht". She played a leading part in "Deep Breath", for which she was nominated as best actress by the Cinema Academy, 21st Fajr International Film Festival. Other Iranian movies in which she appeared are "Fat Shaker" (2013) and "Lantouri" (2016).