Forouzan
Acting • Born 1937-08-26 – Died 2016-06-24
Biography
Forouzan (also spelled Foroozan) was born in Bandar-e Anzali, Iran. Her real name was Parvin Kheirbakhsh. She started her career by dubbing films. Her first movie was Sahel-e Entezar. She acted in many popular Iranian films and also worked with visionary directors of the Mowj-e Now, such as Dariush Mehrjui (Dayere-ye Mina) and Ali Hatami (Baba Shamal). She started her cinematic career as a voice-over actress. In 1964 she starred in Siamak Yasemi's Sahele Entezar, but it was Ganje Qarun, another film by Yasemi, that made her very famous. She co-starred in this film with Fardin. After Ganj-e Qarun Fardin and Forouzan made a golden cinematic couple and co-starred in some of the highest-grossing films of the era, known as Persian Films or Film Farsi (in Persian: Filme Farsi). Persian Film was the popular genre of movies produced in Iran before the Iranian revolution of 1979. Siamak Yasemi, Iraj Ghaderi, Shapur Gharib and Fereydun Goleh were some of the other famous directors that she collaborated with. After the 1979 revolution Forouzan was banned from playing in movies and grew more and more isolated. She rarely conducted interviews and died on 24 January 2016 in Tehran. After Forouzan's death, Persian-language websites and forums dedicated posts and articles in her memory. Her popularity remained intact despite not having acted in a new film since 1978
Filmography
57 credits
Separate Beds
Movie • 1968
Mehri
Heydar
Movie • 1971
Aghdas
Hashem Khan
Movie • 1966
Bride of Bianca
Movie • 1969
Stab in the Back
Movie • 1977
Pari
Büyük Yemin
Movie • 1969
Ayşe
The Dagger
Movie • 1972
Banafsheh
Wada'an ya Faqr
Movie • 1969
Leila
The Luminescent Jewel
Movie • 1967
Shirin
A Man from the South of the City
Movie • 1970
Atash
Champion Shamsi
Movie • 1966
Shamsi (Shamsollah)
Tak Khal
Movie • 1969
The Star of the Seven Skies
Movie • 1968
Firoozeh
Shahrashoob
Movie • 1969
Shahrashoob
The Captain
Movie • 1973
Darya
Ghoroube botparastan
Movie • 1968
The Owner of Hell
Movie • 1970
Talaa
Actor's Wheel
Movie • 1967
Shirin
The Lover
Movie • 1972
Behjat Tighi
Baba Shamal
Movie • 1971
Shokat-ol-Molook
Ayyoob
Movie • 1971
Maryam (Shirin) / Shahin
Mojeze-ye ghalbha
Movie • 1970
That Man from Teheran
Movie • 1967
Real Sepehr's Fiancée
Croesus' Treasure
Movie • 1965
Shirin
Ten Dangerous Shadows
Movie • 1965
The Cycle
Movie • 1978
Zahra
Shokoh-e-javanmardi
Movie • 1968
Tahran Macerası
Movie • 1968
Shirin
Dalahoo
Movie • 1967
Khodahafez koochooloo
Movie • 1976
Sogoli
Movie • 1970
Sogoli
Sahel-e Entezar
Movie • 1963
Maryam
The Humans
Movie • 1964
Goli
The Bride of the Sea
Movie • 1965
Maryam
The Big Appointment
Movie • 1976
Shirin
Beauty on the Block
Movie • 1971
Nazi
The Pleasure of Sin
Movie • 1964
Sahar
Dancer of the City
Movie • 1970
Pari
Ghalandar
Movie • 1972
Eshrat
Behesth Door Nist
Movie • 1969
The Notorious
Movie • 1972
Badri
Ram Karadane Marde Vahshi
Movie • 1970
It's Written in the Stars
Movie • 1968
Zafar
Movie • 1972
Fati
Filmfarsi
Movie • 2019
(archive footage)
Yusuf and Zulaikha
Movie • 1968
Zulaikha
A Girl Is Going to Die Tonight
Movie • 1969
The Sorceress
Movie • 1972
Dokhtar-e Shaah-e Parian
Movie • 1969
Fereshteh
Fireworks of the City
Movie • 1972
Tehran, an Unfinished History
Movie • 2025
No Kidding, I'll Be Offended
Movie • 1966
Asal
Parizad (Fairy Child)
Movie • 1973
Parizad / Fari
The White Clove
Movie • 1973
Escapism
Movie • 1966
The Gate of Fate
Movie • 1967
The Seven Cities of Love
Movie • 1968