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Sahar Jafari Jozani

Sahar Jafari Jozani

Acting

Biography

Sahar Jafari Jozani lived in the United States until the age of 5 and then moved to Iran. Due to the separation of her parents, she was raised by her grandmother. She holds a degree in child psychology from Islamic Azad University. Sahar began her professional career in the arts by acting in her father’s film Shir-e Sangi (The Stone Lion) in 1986. She later worked as both a writer and actress in the television series Doosti Agency (Friendship Agency) and was nominated for the Crystal Simorgh award for Best Supporting Actress at the Fajr Film Festival in 1999 for her role in the movie Balogh (Maturity). Sahar Jafari Jozani gained more fame by acting in works by Mehran Modiri, including Noghte Chin (Dotted Line) in 2003 and Bagh-e Mozaffar (Mozaffar's Garden) in 2006. Among her other works, Sahar appeared in the television series Dar Cheshm-e Baad (In the Eye of the Wind) as the character Iran, and in the popular series Ghahve-ye Talkh (Bitter Coffee). She also starred in the feature film Iran Burger.

Known For

Bitter Coffee
4.8

The series begins with history teacher Nima Zande-Karimi (Siamak Ansari) realizing that his extensive research on Persian and world history is of little use to financing his day-to-day life. He is about to leave Tehran for good to go back to his hometown by the name of Darab, when he comes across young university student Roya Atabaki (Sahar Jafari-Jozani) who is researching for her final year dissertation, which is regarding the period 1198–1203, that is said to be a period of turmoil for Iran's ruling elite. Such turmoil that, very few books are available on that period for Roya's research. It is then that Nima receives an anonymous telephone call, which leads him to Niavaran Palace (currently a museum), where he is told to have a coffee and wait. The coffee (which is bitter) is ready and he duly drinks it, his sight becomes hazy, and when he manages to refocus he is in the year 1201 (1822 AD), and the story develops therein.

Bitter Coffee

2010Series