Tannaz Tabatabaei

Tannaz Tabatabaei (Persian: طناز طباطبایی; born May 10, 1983) is an Iranian actress. She has received various accolades, including two Crystal Simorgh for her performances in Drown (2020) and Without Her (2022) and two Iran's Film Critics and Writers Association Awards for The Voices (2009) and Villa Dwellers (2017).

Tannaz Tabatabaei
طناز طباطبایی
Tabatabaei at the 2020 Fajr Film Festival
Born	(1983-05-10) May 10, 1983 Tehran, Iran
Alma mater	Islamic Azad University, Central Tehran Branch
Occupation	Actress
Years active	2000–present

Early life

She has been active since 2000 acting in Cinema, TV-Series, and Theatre and started her occupation by passing Hiva-Film acting free classes she has chosen Zabih after a month but her first role as an actress in cinema was I Saw Your Dad Last Night, Aida by Rasul Sadr Ameli.

Tannaz shows her abilities by acting in Mive Mamnoue which was one of the main roles and she completed it in the best way for her role in Marham.

In 2009, she won an award for best supporting actress for her role as Negar in Sadaha.

In 2010, she presented for acting in two banned screening movies, Gozaresh yek jashn directed by Ebrahim Hatamikia and Parinaz directed by Bahram Bahramian.

In 2017, she won the award for best supporting actress for her role as Sima in Vilaeiha at the 11th Critics' Choice movie award for Best Iranian film.

She has also worked in music and painting except cinema.

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Director	Notes	Ref(s)
2004	Aida, I Saw Your Father Last Night	Tannaz	Rasul Sadr Ameli
2007	The Music Box	Miss Sa'adati	Farzad Motamen
	Four Finger	Marjan	Saeed Soheili
	Benighted	Maryam	Farzad Motamen
2008	Tehrani Boy	Leili Bidel	Kazem Rastgoftar
	Voices	Negar	Farzad Motamen	Nominated – Crystal Simorgh Fajr Film Festival Award for Best Supporting Actress Won – Iran's Film Critics and Writers Association Award for Best Supporting Actress
	Shirin	Herself	Abbas Kiarostami
2009	Mizak	Setareh	Hossein Ali Layalestani
	Tehran Tehran	Niloofar	Mehdi Karampour
2010	Salve	Maryam	Alireza Davood Nejad	Won – Iran's Film Critics and Writers Association Diploma Honorary for Best Actress
	Devoted	Gandom	Bahman Goudarzi
	The Report of a Celebration	Herself	Ebrahim Hatamikia
2011	Orange Suit	Herself	Dariush Mehrjui
2012	The 7th	Nazanin	Masoud Gharagozlo	Short film
2013	Hush! Girls Don't Scream	Shirin	Pouran Derakhshandeh	Nominated – Hafez Award for Best Actress Motion Picture
	The Last 50 Steps	Havzhin	Kiumars Pourahmad
2014	Resident of the Middle Floor		Shahab Hosseini
	Hard Makeup	Ladan	Hamid Nematollah
2015	Crazy Rook	Mandana	Abolhassan Davoudi	Nominated – Crystal Simorgh Fajr Film Festival Award for Best Actress
	Death of the Fish	Farideh	Rohollah Hejazi
	Twenty Weeks	Dr. Bahrami	Masoud Gharagozloo
2016	Arvand	Leila	Pouriya Azarbaijani
	Sound and Fury	Hana Sarafraz	Houman Seyyedi	Nominated – Crystal Simorgh Fajr Film Festival Award for Best Actress
	Delighted	Bahar	Abdolreza Kahani	Unreleased film
2017	Villa Dwellers	Sima	Monir Gheidi	Won – Iran's Film Critics and Writers Association Award for Best Supporting Actress
	Fairy Out of Wedluck	Hakimeh	Bahram Bahramian
2018	Millionaire of Miami	Mahsa	Mostafa Ahmadi
2019	Tala	Leila	Parviz Shahbazi
	Russian	Marjan	Amir Hossein Saghafi
2020	Drown	Parvaneh	Mohammad Kart	Won – Crystal Simorgh Fajr Film Festival Award for Best Supporting Actress Nominated – Iran's Film Critics and Writers Association Award for Best Supporting Actress
	Sun Children	Ali's mother	Majid Majidi	Cameo
2022	Without Her	Roya	Arin Vazirdaftari	Won – Crystal Simorgh Fajr Film Festival Award for Best Actress

Television

Year	Title	Role	Director	Notes	Network	Ref(s)
2000	The Sacrifice	Aminah	Abbas Moradiyan	TV series
2001	Youth		Saeed Soltani	TV series
2007	Pecker	Pegah	Farzad Motamen	TV film	IRIB TV1
	The Forbidden Fruit	Ghazaleh Fotouhi	Hassan Fathi	TV series	IRIB TV2
2009–2010	In the Eye of the Wind	Farangis	Masoud Jafari Jozani	TV series	IRIB TV1
2009	Open Parenthesis	Niki Golshahr	Kiumars Pourahmad	TV series, Nominated – Hafez Award for Best Actress Television Series Comedy
2013	The Red Hat	Herself	Iraj Tahmasb	TV program

Web

Year	Title	Role	Director	Platform	Ref(s)
2011	Frozen Heart	Shiva Ghaem Maghami	Mohammad Hosein Latifi	Video CD
2013	King of Ear	Gandom Shoja'at	Davood Mir Bagheri	Video CD
2022	Rebel	Tala Motallaee	Mohammad Kart	Filimo

Theatre

Year	Title	Director
2010	Lesson	Dariush Mehrjui
	A Little Higher	Arvand Dashtarai
2011	Tin Tin: The Secret of Mondas Castle	Arvand Dashtarai
2012	The Gardener of Death	Arvand Dashtarai
2016–2017	Love Letters from the Middle East	Kioumars Moradi
2018	Trauma	Afsaneh Mahian
2019	Crime and Punishment	Reza Servati
2022	300	Amir Jadidi

External links

• Tannaz Tabatabaei at IMDb
• Tannaz Tabatabaei on SourehCinema (in Persian)