
Roya Nownahali
Acting
Biography
Roya Nownahali is an actress of theater, cinema, and television who was born in 1963 in Tehran, Iran. After completing her studies, she was first featured in Khosro Sinai's "Yar dar Khaneh" movie. She won the Crystal Simorgh for Best First Role Actress in Fajr Film Festival for "The Marriage of the Blessed" directed by Mohsen Makhmalbaf. She also became famous with the role played in Mehdi Fakhimzadeh's "Sleep and Awake" television series. She has also been featured in "A Piece of Bread" by Kamal Tabrizi, "The House On Water" by Bahman Farman Ara and "Confessions of My Dangerous Mind" directed by Hooman Seyyedi.
Known For

A romantic historical drama set around and after the 1953 Iranian coup d'état.
Shahrzad

It is the story of a family on the first of September 1941, which undergoes changes during the occupation of Iran by the Allies.
Once Upon a Time in Iran

Summary of the story: Turan, who is known as Natasha (with the spectacular performance of Roya Nonhali) and is a professional criminal, returns to Iran after many years. He started an armed robbery with Abdallah Panlang, who had a history of criminal activity and had abandoned it for many years. After a while, Abdallah's son was arrested and in an armed robbery, his son-in-law was injured by the police, and Natasha was also Abdallah. forces him to kill his wounded son-in-law...
Sleep and Awake

Alborz Shams, a resident of Germany, returns to Iran for the death of his father, but in Iran everyone calls him Farhad Babaei and no one remembers him, not even his love Sara.
Queen of Beggars

Gard Zani series is the story of the fate of Baran and Nima on their wedding night, which changed with the release of a criminal named Shahrokh, which led to the revelation of many family secrets about them and each member of their families.
The Beheading

A hundred and fourteen famous Iranian theater and cinema actresses and a French star: mute spectators at a theatrical representation of Khosrow and Shirin, a Persian poem from the twelfth century, put on stage by Kiarostami. The development of the text -- long a favorite in Persia and the Middle East -- remains invisible to the viewer of the film, the whole story is told by the faces of the women watching the show.
Shirin

Spanning 18 years in an Iranian women's prison, this follows two women: the new prison warden, a tough as nails devout Muslim who has served in the army on the Iraqi front, and a young midwife, Mitra, who is serving her sentence for killing her mother's abusive husband. In the early years, Mitra is repeatedly punished as the warden tries to break her. This includes punishment for delivering a baby in the prison cell while all of the prison staff has taken shelter during an Iraqi bombing. The warden's attitude starts to change after 8 years, when Mitra tries to protect a new inmate from rape at the hands of her older cellmates. When the baby comes back in 1991 as a 17 year old delinquent, Sepideh, the warden respects Mitra enough to protect the girl.
Women's Prison

Between Dreaming and Awakening, an Iranian drama series whose story revolves around gangs that sponsor the drug trade in Iran, where senior police officers confront them after they pose a real threat to the country's youth. It shows a complicated story about police trying to drag these traders into the trap, so interesting events take place in a dramatic context in which the features of the conflict between the forces of good and evil appear, and the series is a light police comic type, which gives the impression of the difficulties facing the policemen of the dangers and obstacles surrounding the policeman and his family in the same time.
Sleep and Awake
Night Light narrates the activities of a secret intelligence base that, upon discovering a terrorist operation, embarks on a complex path of identifying and neutralizing networks of infiltration and sabotage; where the trail of threats crosses borders and reaches the country's infrastructure and security layers.
Roshanaeie Shab

After 22 years, Aziz decides to return to his hometown, to sell some family possessions, including the house where he was born. But for his astonishment, the place is now a small restaurant, run by four women, one of them a girl whom he once dated. Attieh, the girl, tries to convince him not to sell the place by, instead of telling him a story a day as Sheherazade, cooking him a delicious dish every day.
The Fish Fall in Love

The life of a single mother living in Tehran gets unsettled by the visit of her enstranged sister.
On a Friday Afternoon

Niloofar is a twelve-year-old girl whose dream is to read and write, but she lives in a village where education is only for boys. Her mother, a well-known midwife, insists that Niloofar become her apprentice. While assisting her mother during a delivery, Niloofar meets a feminist woman who undertakes to teach her in secret. Unfortunately, in exchange of a palm tree field, Niloofar's father promises her in marriage to an older man once she becomes a woman. Horrified by this notion, Niloofar does everything in her power to postpone her first periods. Eventually, the inevitable occurs. HOwever, Niloofar, who is determined to keep her freedom as long as possible, arranges to conceal the fact from her family for another two years until the truth can no longer be hidden. Then, rather than live in a marriage without love, Niloofar runs away with her friend. Shocked, her family considers itself dishonored and sends her step-brother to track her down
Niloofar

When the resident singer at a venue that hosts weddings and funerals abruptly quits his job, a young, charming new singer (Hamed Behdad) is hired. Unexpectedly, a romantic relationship begins to develop between him and older, widowed woman who also works at the venue, though neither is immediately aware of the other’s emotions. The romance that ensues creates as much chaos as it does tenderness. This is a star-studded and incredibly entertaining ride.
It Happened at Midnight

A man wakes up and doesn't remember anything...
Confessions of My Dangerous Mind
This series is told from the perspective of five thieves and two police officers. In two episodes, the story of the bank robbery is told from the perspective of Dr. Shams and Major Niazi and their analysis, and in four episodes, the story is told from the perspective of the thieves.
Zaviye Haftom

Death surrounds Bahman, a director who hasn't made a film in 24 years (he can't get past the censors). He's working on a documentary, for Japanese TV, on Iranian burial practices. On the anniversary of his wife's death, a hitchhiker tells him a story of spousal abuse and infant mortality, he discovers that someone has been buried in his plot next to his wife, and he needs the help of his attorney, a well-connected fixer. He dreams of death, even as he investigates it for his film. His niece's husband, a well-known writer, fails to return home; he searches hospitals for an unclaimed body. His heart disease is flaring up. Is he prepared for death? Is that all that's left?
Smell of Camphor, Fragrance of Jasmine

A lonely wife is helping her hopeless husband who is living his last days of his life because of cancer . Romantic relationship between them plus having her mother in law around causing drama & surreal narration . Unfortunately we've lost our director because of cancer just a couple of months after finishing our project .
Nimrokh-ha

Taher Mohebi is a well-known writer who, after witnessing a violent murder, breaks down and spends three years in a mental institution. After release he is told that things are just as they were before, but his relentless hallucinations make him want to return to the institution.
Tale of the Sea

In a small valley, riders pursue and kill a man. A horse thief, so his assassins claim. But for his ten year old son Issa, the disappearance of his father causes an avalanche of problems. With the family name stigmatized, Issa is bullied by the other children in the village. While his mother fights to clear her husbands name, Issa is left to his own devices. But unexpectedly, his solitude gives birth to his freedom, his real passion, horses.
Sanam

Story About A Girl who Want's to Move To Italy But Family Matters Diverts Her To Another Way