Veteran Iranian actress Shirin Yazdanbakhsh passes away

Veteran Iranian actress Shirin Yazdanbakhsh passed away at the age of 76.

Born in 1949 in Isfahan, the actress died after a brain stroke on Thursday.

She won Crystal Simorgh Award for the best supporting actress at the 28th edition of the Fajr International Film Festival for her role in ‘Please Do Not Disturb’ (2010).

She was also nominated for Crystal Simorgh Award for the best supporting actress at the Fajr International Film Festival for her roles in ‘Kissing the Moonlike Face’ (2012) and ‘Life and a Day’ (2016).

She had also acted in movies such as ‘Killer Spider’ (2020), ‘Gholamreza Takhti’ (2019), ‘Los Angeles Tehran’ (2017–2018), ‘Boarding Pass’ (2017), ‘Sara and Ayda’ (2017), ‘The Sis’ (2017), ‘A Special Day’ (2017), ‘Inversion’ (2016), ‘Avalanche’ (2015), ‘Closer’ (2015), ‘Melbourne’ (2014), ‘Snow’ (2014), ‘A Separation’ (2011), and ‘Snow on the Pines’ (2010).