Mina Khosrovani

Mina Khosrovani (; born May 23) known professionally as Mina Kavani, is an Iranian-French actress. She is best known for her role in No Bears (2022), which won the Special Jury Prize at the 79th Venice International Film Festival. Early life and career Mina Kavani was born in Tehran. Brought up into an artistic family, and niece of the well-known film and play director Ali Raffi, she graduated from Conservatoire Supérieur National d'Art dramatique of Paris (CNSAD). Fascinated by acting from an early age, she started participating regularly at her uncle's rehearsals at the age of twelve. At sixteen she made her debut in the play It Doesn't Snow in Egypt under the direction of her uncle and on the stage of Tehran's City Theatre, inaugurating her carrier in Iran as an actress in theatre. She soon had pieces such as: Othello (Desdemona), Antigone (Antigone), La Musica and J'étais dans ma maison et j'attendais que la pluie vienne. She has collaborated with some of Iran's most crucial film and theatre directors. At the age of twenty-three, she moved back to Paris and entered the Conservatoire National Supérieur as part of the Jean Damien Barbin's class, during the time in which Daniel Mesguich was the director.