Biography
Maryam Hamidi is an actor and writer. She studied drama at Queen Margaret University in Edinburgh after moving to Scotland at the age of 18.
As an actor she is known for the role of Leyla Brodie in the soap River City (2010–2014), the BBC receptionist in Wild Rose (2018), Sophia in The Last Bus (2021) and Dana Ashraf in Annika (2023). As a writer her credits include an episode of the second series of Vigil (2023), episodes of Silverpoint and Hollyoaks, and co-writing on the series Lockerbie: A Search for Truth (2025).
She has also written and directed short films including Bahar (2021) and is a playwright whose work includes Moonset (2023). Hamidi was named one of Screen International’s Rising Stars Scotland in 2024.
