Azar Shiva
Acting • Born 1934-06-23
Biography
Azar Shiva was born in 1941, in the city of Tehran. She began her career working with Tehran Radio before later doing dubbing as a voice artist. Invited to work with Majid Mohseni, she shot her first film in 1962 titled "Song of the Village". In one decade, she acted in twenty one Iranian films, of the likes of "Sultan of Hearts" and "The Prostitute". Her career came to a close in 1972 with the rise of the Iranian Revolution, selling chewing gum as a form of protest at Tehran University for the way her film studio had commercialized the female body.
Filmography
21 credits
Three-Eyed Ruby
Movie • 1970
The Village Song
Movie • 1961
Trees Die Standing
Movie • 1971
Grandmother
Prostitute
Movie • 1969
Atash
The Rotation of the Firmament
Movie • 1967
Parvin
The Champion of Champions
Movie • 1965
King of Hearts
Movie • 1968
Setareh
Ghatelin ham Migeryand
Movie • 1969
Hengameh
Movie • 1968
Nahid
The Golden Palace
Movie • 1969
Eradatmand-e shoma, Ezraeel
Movie • 1970
Parastuha be laneh barmigardand
Movie • 1964
Ali's Wife
Forgiveness
Movie • 1962
Aras Khan
Movie • 1963
The Law of Life
Movie • 1964
Golnar
I Am A Mother
Movie • 1965
Azar
Gamecock
Movie • 1965
Parvin
Runaway Groom
Movie • 1966
Mehri
Under the Blue Sky
Movie • 1967
The Dark Days of a Mother
Movie • 1967
Gol Agha
Movie • 1968