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NAZANIN BONIADI

NAZANIN BONIADI

Actress, activist

Nazanin Boniadi is an Iranian-born, SAG, and AACTA Award-nominated actress and renowned activist. Her TV and film credits include How I Met Your Mother, Homeland, Counterpart, and Hotel Mumbai. She next stars in Amazon’s upcoming Lord of the Rings series. Nazanin, whose family fled Iran as political refugees when she was just a few weeks old, is an outspoken human rights activist. She is an Amnesty International UK Ambassador and has partnered with the US arm of the non-profit since 2008 to campaign for the rights of disenfranchised populations across the world, with a focus on unjust conviction and treatment of Iranian youth,...

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Nazanin Boniadi is an Iranian-born, SAG, and AACTA Award-nominated actress and renowned activist. Her TV and film credits include How I Met Your Mother, Homeland, Counterpart, and Hotel Mumbai. She next stars in Amazon’s upcoming Lord of the Rings series. Nazanin, whose family fled Iran as political refugees when she was just a few weeks old, is an outspoken human rights activist. She is an Amnesty International UK Ambassador and has partnered with the US arm of the non-profit since 2008 to campaign for the rights of disenfranchised populations across the world, with a focus on unjust conviction and treatment of Iranian youth, women, and prisoners of conscience. Her opinions have been published in global media outlets including The Washington Post, CNN, Defense One, and The New York Times.

Boniadi changed her career path from science and started pursuing acting in 2006. Her first major acting role was as Leyla Mir on the daytime drama General Hospital and its SOAPnet spin-off series General Hospital: Night Shift, making her the first contract actor to play a Middle Eastern character in American daytime television history.[citation needed] She is also the first actress born in Iran to ever be on contract on an American soap opera.[11]

She was nominated for an NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Actress in a Daytime Drama Series in 2008 for her role in General Hospital.[12]

Boniadi has also played supporting roles in several major Hollywood film productions, such as Charlie Wilson’s War (directed by Mike Nichols), Iron Man (directed by Jon Favreau), and The Next Three Days (directed by Paul Haggis).

She played Nora, a love interest for Neil Patrick Harris‘ character Barney Stinson, on the sixth season of the hit CBS show How I Met Your Mother.[13] She reprised this role during the show’s seventh and ninth seasons.

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