---
name: "Marjane Satrapi"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/marjane-satrapi"
fi1m_id: "marjane-satrapi"
imdb_id: "nm2277869"
tmdb_id: 20659
wikidata_id: "Q126633"
roles: ["Director"]
born: "22 November 1969"
died: "4 June 2026"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "director"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-17T22:59:57.481687+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."
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# Marjane Satrapi

## Identity

Marjane Satrapi

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/marjane-satrapi
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** marjane-satrapi
- **IMDb ID:** nm2277869
- **TMDB ID:** 20659
- **Wikidata ID:** Q126633
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marjane_Satrapi, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q126633, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2277869/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/20659

Director. Born 22 November 1969 in Rasht, Iran. Died 4 June 2026.

## Details

- **Work:** Director
- **Born:** 22 November 1969, Rasht, Iran
- **Died:** 4 June 2026
- **Academy Awards:** 1 Oscar nomination
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marjane_Satrapi, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q126633, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2277869/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/20659

## Streaming the US now

- **Amazon Prime Video:** [*Persepolis*](https://film.one/film/persepolis.md) (87)

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## Fi1m on Marjane Satrapi

> Marjane Satrapi’s strongest filmmaking lets people be awkward, funny and wrong without making them impossible to care about. We recommend *Persepolis* warmly for that generosity, with a reservation about how often its brisk storytelling moves on too soon.

In *Persepolis* (2007), a face drawn with only a few lines can make a young girl’s lack of proportion understandable. Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud let Marjane take her own troubles seriously, even when there is greater suffering around her. They also allow us to see when she is being unreasonable. We laughed at her youthful self-importance because the film refuses to treat every embarrassment as proof that she is destined for something remarkable. That willingness to risk our disapproval makes her feel like someone whose company we have actually kept.

Satrapi began in features by adapting her own graphic memoirs with Paronnaud. They moved into live action together with *Chicken with Plums* (2011), another graphic-novel adaptation. *The Voices* (2014), an English-language dark comedy, then made a deliberate break from Iranian subjects. The Marie Curie biopic *Radioactive* (2019) moved further from her autobiographical beginnings. The later work could be uneven in tone, while *Radioactive* too often settled for familiar biopic habits; choosing a different kind of film did not always bring out her strengths.

The family scenes in *Persepolis* explain why that first collaboration remains the place to start. Satrapi and Paronnaud use the child’s incomplete understanding to make large events comprehensible, giving us people to care about before asking us to absorb their circumstances. The bold black-and-white animation retains the lines of her comics without leaving the faces stiff or remote. A few strokes are enough to make Marjane’s contradictions readable, and the humour allows us to feel affection for her without excusing everything she does.

The cost is haste. Some episodes in *Persepolis* end just as we want to spend longer with them, and the wider history can feel squeezed between the personal incidents. Satrapi and Paronnaud’s instinct for what a drawing can tell us is surer than their judgement of how long a passage needs. We would happily lose some incident to give those relationships more time. Start with *Persepolis*, especially if you prefer a coming-of-age story whose heroine can be a nuisance.

## Biography

Marjane Satrapi is a French-Iranian director, writer and graphic novelist. She co-directed and co-wrote the animated film *Persepolis* (2007) with Vincent Paronnaud, adapting her own autobiographical graphic novel of the same name.

Her other directorial credits include the live-action films *Chicken with Plums* (2011), also co-directed with Paronnaud and adapted from her graphic novel, *The Voices* (2014) and *Radioactive* (2020). She studied art in Strasbourg after earlier time in Vienna and Tehran.

Satrapi died in Paris in June 2026.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, hollywoodreporter.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Persepolis* (2007), Fi1m 87, Comic Book, Director, Story, Author — [page](https://film.one/film/persepolis.md)

## Complete filmography (9)

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

- *Dear Paris* (2024), Writer, Director
- *The Soloists* (2021), as Ava (voice)
- *Radioactive* (2020), Director
- *The Voices* (2014), Director
- *The Gang of the Jotas* (2013), as The Woman · Director, Screenplay
- *Chicken with Plums* (2011), Director, Comic Book, Writer
- *The French Kissers* (2009), as La vendeuse du magasin de musique
- *Persepolis* (2007), Director, Story, Comic Book, Author — Fi1m 87, [page](https://film.one/film/persepolis.md)
- *The Simpsons* (1989), series, as Marjane Satrapi (voice) — Fi1m 88, [page](https://film.one/tv/the-simpsons.md)

## Gallery

- ![Marjane Satrapi](https://film.one/media/person/99878/gallery-666782ffc187.jpg) Marjane Satrapi — Georges Bird, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3f/Marjane_Satrapi_Cannes_2008%28Cropped%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Iraninan-French writer Marjane Satrapi arriving at the Premios Pricesa de Asturias 2024 ceremony in Oviedo, Spain.](https://film.one/media/person/99878/gallery-af8abc16cdbd.jpg) Iraninan-French writer Marjane Satrapi arriving at the Premios Pricesa de Asturias 2024 ceremony in Oviedo, Spain. — Junta de Andalucía, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ea/Marjane-satrapi-premios-princesa-de-asturias.jpg/1280px-Marjane-satrapi-premios-princesa-de-asturias.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Marjane Satrapi in 2007 during an Italien premiere of her film Persepolis](https://film.one/media/person/99878/gallery-19c1ca632abd.jpg) Marjane Satrapi in 2007 during an Italien premiere of her film Persepolis — Giorgio Montersino, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7b/Marjane_Satrapi_%282007%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Marjane Satrapi présentant "The Voices" au Grand Action, le 11 octobre 2022.](https://film.one/media/person/99878/gallery-4f666bac4d0c.jpg) Marjane Satrapi présentant "The Voices" au Grand Action, le 11 octobre 2022. — ManoSolo13241324, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c8/Marjane_Satrapi_2022_2.jpg/1280px-Marjane_Satrapi_2022_2.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Marjane Satrapi](https://film.one/media/person/99878/gallery-20925f533fd0.jpg) Marjane Satrapi — Image via TMDB
- ![Marjane Satrapi](https://film.one/media/person/99878/gallery-baa52bf98217.jpg) Marjane Satrapi — Image via TMDB
- ![Marjane Satrapi](https://film.one/media/person/99878/gallery-f6ce00e473b8.jpg) Marjane Satrapi — Image via TMDB
- ![Marjane Satrapi during a premiere of her film Persepolis (2007)](https://film.one/media/person/99878/gallery-ac84225d419e.jpg) Marjane Satrapi during a premiere of her film Persepolis (2007) — Rama, CC BY-SA 2.0 fr, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/de/Marjane_Satrapi_mg_7514.jpg/1280px-Marjane_Satrapi_mg_7514.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Marjane Satrapi during a premiere of her film Persepolis (2007)](https://film.one/media/person/99878/gallery-7c163f19bc40.jpg) Marjane Satrapi during a premiere of her film Persepolis (2007) — Rama, CC BY-SA 2.0 fr, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/af/Marjane_Satrapi_mg_7519.jpg/1280px-Marjane_Satrapi_mg_7519.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)

## Awards

### Academy Awards — 0 won, 1 nominated

- 2008: Best Animated Feature (nominated), for *Persepolis*

### BAFTA Film Awards — 0 won, 2 nominated

- 2009: Best Animated Film (nominated), for *Persepolis*
- 2009: Best Film Not in the English Language (nominated), for *Persepolis*

### Other awards — 21 won, 4 nominated

- Knight of the Legion of Honour 2024: Knight of the Legion of Honour (won)
- Princess of Asturias Award for Communications and Humanities 2024: Princess of Asturias Award for Communications and Humanities (won)
- Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres 2022: Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres (won)
- Adamson Awards 2015: Adamson Awards (won), for *Persepolis*
- Officer of Arts and Letters 2015: Officer of Arts and Letters (won)
- Award Gato Perich 2008: Award Gato Perich (won)
- BIFA for Best Foreign Independent Film 2008: BIFA for Best Foreign Independent Film (nominated), for *Persepolis*
- César Award for Best Adaptation 2008: César Award for Best Adaptation (won), for *Persepolis*
- César Award for Best Film 2008: César Award for Best Film (nominated), for *Persepolis*
- César Award for Best First Film 2008: César Award for Best First Film (won), for *Persepolis*
- Independent Spirit Awards 2008: Best Foreign Film (nominated), for *Persepolis*
- European Film Award for Best Film 2007: European Film Award for Best Film (nominated), for *Persepolis*
- Jury Prize 2007: Jury Prize (won), for *Persepolis*
- Sutherland Trophy 2007: Sutherland Trophy (won), for *Persepolis*
- Urhunden Prizes 2007: Urhunden Prizes (won), for *Embroideries*
- Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres 2005: Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres (won)
- Peter Pan prize 2005: Peter Pan prize (won)
- Sproing Award 2005: Sproing Award (won)
- Urhunden Prizes 2005: Urhunden Prizes (won), for *Persepolis*
- Angoulême International Comics Festival Prize for Best Album 2004: Angoulême International Comics Festival Prize for Best Album (won), for *Chicken with Plums*
- Harvey Awards 2004: Harvey Awards (won), for *Persepolis*
- Max und Moritz Award for Best German-language Comic 2004: Max und Moritz Award for Best German-language Comic (won), for *Persepolis*
- Max und Moritz Award for Best International Comic Artist 2004: Max und Moritz Award for Best International Comic Artist (won), for *Persepolis*
- Prix France Info 2002: Prix France Info (won)
- Angoulême International Comics Festival Prize for First Comic Book 2001: Angoulême International Comics Festival Prize for First Comic Book (won)

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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