---
name: "Soheila Golestani"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/soheila-golestani"
fi1m_id: "soheila-golestani"
imdb_id: "nm6262099"
tmdb_id: 1574748
wikidata_id: "Q20110998"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "8 December 1980"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-30T22:28:42.866181+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."
---

# Soheila Golestani

## Identity

Soheila Golestani

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/soheila-golestani
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** soheila-golestani
- **IMDb ID:** nm6262099
- **TMDB ID:** 1574748
- **Wikidata ID:** Q20110998
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soheila_Golestani, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q20110998, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm6262099/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1574748

Actor. Born 8 December 1980 in Tehran, Iran.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 8 December 1980, Tehran, Iran
- **Also known as:** سهيلا گلستاني
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soheila_Golestani, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q20110998, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm6262099/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1574748

## Streaming the US now

- **Disney+:** [*The Seed of the Sacred Fig*](https://film.one/film/the-seed-of-the-sacred-fig.md) (80)

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## Biography

Soheila Golestani is an Iranian actress and film director. Born on 8 December 1980 in Tehran, she studied theatre with a focus on stage design. She has appeared in films including *We Have a Guest* (2014) and *Two Dogs* (2021), and directed the 2015 feature *Two*.

Golestani gained international recognition for her leading role as Najmeh in Mohammad Rasoulof's *The Seed of the Sacred Fig* (2024). She received a Best Supporting Actress award at the Fajr International Film Festival in 2013 and a Best Performance nomination at the 2024 Asia Pacific Screen Awards for her work in the latter film.

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

## On Fi1m (1)

- *The Seed of the Sacred Fig* (2024), Fi1m 80, as Najmeh — [page](https://film.one/film/the-seed-of-the-sacred-fig.md)

## Complete filmography (13)

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

- *Noah's Daughter* (2025), Producer
- *The Woman in the Mirror* (2025), Supervising Technical Director
- *The Seed of the Sacred Fig* (2024), as Najmeh — Fi1m 80, [page](https://film.one/film/the-seed-of-the-sacred-fig.md)
- *Obituary* (2020), Producer
- *A Bigger Game* (2018), Actor
- *Two* (2016), Director, Writer
- *The Buffalo* (2015), Actor
- *Night, Outdoor* (2015), Actor
- *We Have a Guest* (2014), as Zeynab
- *Today* (2014), Actor
- *Forties* (2010), Actor
- *My Sin* (2009), Actor
- *Awakening for Three Days*, as soheila

## Gallery

- ![Soheila Golestani](https://film.one/media/person/4129270/gallery-12e420ab710a.jpg) Soheila Golestani — Fereidoon Ghorbani, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e6/Soheila_Golestani.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Soheila Golestani](https://film.one/media/person/4129270/gallery-d4a9aa885c98.jpg) Soheila Golestani — Image via TMDB
- ![Soheila Golestani](https://film.one/media/person/4129270/gallery-f91b6826fd7d.jpg) Soheila Golestani — Image via TMDB

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