---
name: "Isabella Nefar"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/isabella-nefar"
fi1m_id: "isabella-nefar"
imdb_id: "nm6040705"
tmdb_id: 1840837
roles: ["Actor"]
reviewed_on_fi1m: 3
average_fi1m_score: 68
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 3
updated: "2026-10-04T07:57:03.595810+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Isabella Nefar

## Identity

Isabella Nefar

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/isabella-nefar
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** isabella-nefar
- **IMDb ID:** nm6040705
- **TMDB ID:** 1840837
- **Same entity:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm6040705/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1840837

Actor.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Active:** 2019–present
- **Average Fi1m score:** 68, as actor, over 3 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 2010s 53 (1), 2020s 76 (2)
- **Score spread:** 1 at 80+, 1 at 60–79, 1 under 60
- **Lead roles:** 0 of 1 acting credits billed first or second
- **Genres:** Drama 3, Comedy 1, Crime 1, History 1
- **Screen time:** 4 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $1m across 1 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm6040705/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1840837

## Biography

Isabella Nefar is an Iranian-British actor. She trained at the Scuola Paolo Grassi in Milan and at LAMDA in London.

Her theatre credits include the title role in *Salomé* at the National Theatre, *Goats* at the Royal Court and *Jude* at Hampstead Theatre. Screen work includes *Waiting for the Barbarians* (2019), *Small City* (2021), *Profeti* (2023), *Reading Lolita in Tehran* (2024) as Yassi, and the BBC series *The Gold* (2023) as Bank Cashier Francesca-May. She is also known for the one-woman show *My English Persian Kitchen*, which sold out at the 2024 Edinburgh Festival Fringe and transferred to the Soho Theatre.

*Sources: imdb.com, bristololdvic.org.uk, broadwayworld.com.*

## On Fi1m (3)

- *Onwards and Sideways* (2026), Fi1m 72, as Bahar — [page](https://film.one/film/onwards-and-sideways.md)
- *The Gold* (2023), Fi1m 80, as Bank Cashier Francesca-May — [page](https://film.one/tv/the-gold.md)
- *Waiting for the Barbarians* (2019), Fi1m 53, as Star — [page](https://film.one/film/waiting-for-the-barbarians.md)

## Complete filmography (9)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Onwards and Sideways* (2026), as Bahar — Fi1m 72, [page](https://film.one/film/onwards-and-sideways.md)
- *Royally Screwed* (2026), as Franny
- *Cameraman* (2025), as Farzaneh
- *Reading Lolita in Tehran* (2024), as Yassi
- *The Gold* (2023), series, as Bank Cashier Francesca-May — Fi1m 80, [page](https://film.one/tv/the-gold.md)
- *Profeti* (2023), as Nur
- *Small City* (2021), as Zia
- *Waiting for the Barbarians* (2020), as Star — Fi1m 53, [page](https://film.one/film/waiting-for-the-barbarians.md)
- *National Theatre Live: Salomé* (2017), as Salomé

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