Bahar Soomekh VS Nazanin Boniadi

Bahar Soomekh

Bahar Soomekh (Persian: بهار سومخ‎, born March 30, 1975) is an American actress. She is best known for her roles in Crash and the Saw franchise.Bahar...

Bahar Soomekh (Persian: بهار سومخ‎, born March 30, 1975) is an American actress. She is best known for her roles in Crash and the Saw franchise.Bahar was born in Tehran, Iran, to a devout Persian-Jewish family. She moved with her parents and sister, Saba Soomekh, to Los Angeles, California, United States in 1979 to escape the Iranian Revolution.] Soomekh attended Sinai Akiba Academy and Beverly Hills High School.Bahar later attended the University of California, Santa Barbara. She graduated in 1997 with a B.A. in environmental studies.

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Nazanin Boniadi

Nazanin Boniadi (; Persian: نازنین بنیادی‎, [nɑːzæˈniːn bonjɑːˈdiː]; born 22 May 1980) is an English actress and human rights defender. Born in Iran a...

Nazanin Boniadi (; Persian: نازنین بنیادی‎, [nɑːzæˈniːn bonjɑːˈdiː]; born 22 May 1980) is an English actress and human rights defender. Born in Iran and raised in London, she went to university in the United States, where she landed her first major acting role as Leyla Mir in the medical drama General Hospital (2007–2009) and its spin-off General Hospital: Night Shift (2007). Since then, she is best known for playing Fara Sherazi in the Showtime spy thriller series Homeland (2013–2014), Esther in the historical drama film Ben-Hur (2016), Clare Quayle in the Starz sci-fi thriller series Counterpart (2017–2018), and Zahra Kashani in the action thriller film Hotel Mumbai (2018). Boniadi was an Amnesty International spokesperson from 2009 to 2015 and has been a board member of the Center for Human Rights in Iran since 2015.

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