Shahla Riahi

Shahla Riahi (Persian: شهلا ریاحی‎, 7 February 1927 – 31 December 2019)[2] was an Iranian actress and film director.

Shahla Riahi
Shahla Riahi in 1970s
Born	Ghodratzaman Vafadoost 7 February 1927 Tehran, Iran
Died	31 December 2019 (aged 92) Tehran, Iran
Resting place	Behesht-e Zahra Cemetery
Occupation	Actress, director
Years active	1951–2000
Spouse(s)	Esmaeel Riahi ​ ​ (m. 1942; died 2010)​
Children	2
Parent(s)	Agha Sheykh Vafadoost (father) Zahra Asgari (mother)[1]

Born in Tehran, she started stage acting in 1944 and first appeared in cinema in Golden Dreams. In 1956 she became the first Iranian woman to direct a feature, with Marjan.[3] Her career as a film actress includes more than 72 features.[4][5][6]

Riahi died on 31 December 2019 at the age of 92.[7]

References

1. بیوگرافی کامل شهلا ریاحی به همراه عکس های کمتر دیده شده از آلبوم خانوادگی این بازیگر پیشکسوت
2. شهلا ریاحی درگذشت
3. "First Iranian female film director and actress Shahla Riahi in cinema". YouTube. 7 December 2012.
4. Cinema in Iran, 1900-1979 - Page 144 Mohammad Ali Issari - 1989 That same year, the first Persian feature film in the history of Iranian cinema was produced and directed by a Persian woman. The film was Marjan (proper name) , a 35mm , black-and-white film about 110 minutes long, produced and directed by Shahla, a well-known actress and singer. Marjan was the first production of Arya Film, established by Shahla the same year. The story, written for the screen by Mohammad Asemi, is about a tribe of gypsies that settles down near a village.
5. A Social History of Iranian Cinema, Volume 2: The Industrializing ... 0822347741 Hamid Naficy - 2011 Shahla also relates that when her movie, Marjan, did not do well, the producer forced her to cut in Mahvash's song‐and‐dance clips to spice it up and to change its depressing ending so as to bring in spec‐tators.
6. Corpus Anarchicum: Political Protest, Suicidal Violence, and the ... 1137264128 Hamid Dabashi - 2012 - Could spell the word “stone” on the blackboard And the sparrows flew away from the top of the old tree.5 The earliest record of an Iranian woman filmmaker looking through a camera dates back to mid-1950s. Historians of Iranian cinema consider Shahla Riyahi's Marjan (1956) as the first occasion when a woman was identified as a filmmaker. Shahla Riyahi was already a popular actress of stage and screen by the time she made Marjan, but masculinist historiography has twice ...
7. Sheikhi, Marjohn (1 January 2020). "Veteran Iranian actress Shahla Riahi passes away". Mehr News Agency. Retrieved 1 January 2020.

External links

• Shahla Riahi at IMDb