Azar Shiva

Biography

Azar Shiva was born in 1941, in the city of Tehran. She began her career working with Tehran Radio before later doing dubbing as a voice artist. Invited to work with Majid Mohseni, she shot her first film in 1962 titled "Song of the Village". In one decade, she acted in twenty one Iranian films, of the likes of "Sultan of Hearts" and "The Prostitute". Her career came to a close in 1972 with the rise of the Iranian Revolution, selling chewing gum as a form of protest at Tehran University for the way her film studio had commercialized the female body.

Known For

Aras Khan

The Golden Palace

Trees Die Standing

Hengameh

The Champion of Champions

King of Hearts

Three-Eyed Ruby

Prostitute

All Movies (21)

• Trees Die Standing1971 · as Grandmother
• Three-Eyed Ruby1970
• Eradatmand-e shoma, Ezraeel1970
• Prostitute1969 · as Atash
• Ghatelin ham Migeryand1969
• The Golden Palace1969
• Hengameh1968 · as Nahid
• Gol Agha1968
• King of Hearts1968 · as Setareh
• The Dark Days of a Mother1967
• The Rotation of the Firmament1967 · as Parvin
• Under the Blue Sky1967
• Runaway Groom1966 · as Mehri
• Gamecock1965 · as Parvin
• I Am A Mother1965 · as Azar
• The Champion of Champions1965
• The Law of Life1964 · as Golnar
• Parastuha be laneh barmigardand1964 · as Ali's Wife
• Aras Khan1963
• Forgiveness1962
• The Village Song1961