Nazanin Boniadi
Actress Award-winning Human Rights Activist
Nazanin Boniadi is an Iranian-born, SAG, and AACTA Award-nominated actress and renowned activist. Her TV and film credits include How I Met Your Mother, Homeland, Counterpart, and Hotel Mumbai. She next stars in Amazon’s upcoming Lord of the Rings series. Nazanin, whose family fled Iran as political refugees when she was just a few weeks old, is an outspoken human rights activist. She is an Amnesty International UK Ambassador and has partnered with the US arm of the non-profit since 2008 to campaign for the rights of disenfranchised populations across the world,
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Nazanin Boniadi is an Iranian-born, SAG, and AACTA Award-nominated actress and renowned activist. Her TV and film credits include How I Met Your Mother, Homeland, Counterpart, and Hotel Mumbai. She next stars in Amazon’s upcoming Lord of the Rings series. Nazanin, whose family fled Iran as political refugees when she was just a few weeks old, is an outspoken human rights activist. She is an Amnesty International UK Ambassador and has partnered with the US arm of the non-profit since 2008 to campaign for the rights of disenfranchised populations across the world, with a focus on unjust conviction and treatment of Iranian youth, women, and prisoners of conscience. Her opinions have been published in global media outlets including The Washington Post, CNN, Defense One, and The New York Times.
Her advocacy work has taken her to the German Bundestag, the UK Parliament, and the US Capitol. The Program for Torture Victims awarded Nazanin their 2014 City of Second Chances Award. In 2018, she was selected by People Magazine as one of their “25 Women Changing the World.” In 2020, she received the Freedom House Raising Awareness Award, and the Ellis Island Medal of Honor, and was selected for membership by the Council on Foreign Relations. She is fluent in English and Persian.
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An Evening with Nazanin Boniadi
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Lord of the Rings' Nazanin Boniadi Teases Character's "Inner Lioness" | E! News
Nazanin Boniadi and Anupam Kher Interview: Hotel Mumbai
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