Zar Amir-Ebrahimi

Zahra Amir Ebrahimi (; born 9 July 1981), known professionally as Zar Amir Ebrahimi, is an Iranian-French actress, producer and director. She rose to international prominence for her performance as journalist Arezoo Rahimi in the crime thriller Holy Spider (2022), for which she won the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress and Robert Award for Best Actress. Amir Ebrahimi is also a producer and host for the BBC and oversees a cultural program for the Persian branch of BBC World. In 2022, she appeared on BBC's 100 Women list as one of the world's inspiring and influential women of the year. Early life Zahra Amir Ebrahimi was born on July 9, 1981, in Tehran, Iran. She studied theater in Azad University and started her professional career by making short films. She speaks Persian, English and French fluently, and knows basic Arabic, German and Italian.