Portrait of Iranian actress Yekta Nasser

iFilm English Website invites you to read some lines about the path Yekta Nasser took to emerge as a shining star in Iran’s filmmaking industry.

The cunning antagonist desperate to be loved in ‘The first Night of Peace’ started her career as a teenager. In pursuit of quenching her passion for acting, she found her way to a number of acting agencies and took her very first role in a TV series titled ‘The Bougainvillea’.

Since then she appeared in a number of works recorded for TV, but none of them gained her fame.

In 2000, her part in Hamid Labkhandeh’s ‘Stay with Me’ changed the game for her in a way that she emerged as a young promising actress.

In 2001, she took her debut role in a cinematic work titled ‘Saghi’ and appeared on the silver screen.

Yekta reached the pinnacle of her career by the role in a movie titled ‘Someone Wants to Talk to You’. The part won her a Crystal Simorgh award for the Best Actress in a Supporting Role at the 30th edition of the Fajr Film Festival in Iran.

The talented actress has appeared in several TV series such as 'Edge of Darkness', 'The First Night of Peace', 'The Daughters of Eve' and 'The Old Road'.

She has also taken part in various movies, including 'Murder Online', 'Someone Wants to Talk to You', and 'I Am Not Salvador'.

Nasser’s personal life:

She was born on November 3, 1978, in a small family of 5. Her father was an army officer and her mother was a housewife.

She studied Environmental Engineering at the university.

In 2015, the young actress tied the knot with Manouchehr Hadi, who is a famous filmmaker in Iranian TV and cinema. The two have a daughter named Sofia, who has taken a lot after her mother.

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