Fereshteh Hosseini

Known for Acting

4/26/1997(Age 28)

Tehran, Iran

Biography

Fereshteh Hosseini (Persian: فرشته حسینی‎; born 26 April 1997) is an Iranian actress who was born in Tehran to an Afghan family and grew up in Iran. She is famous for acting in Rona, Azim's Mother, Parting, and The Frog series.

Known For (12 credits)

Movie

Cinema Jazireh

2025

Afghanistan under the brutal rule of the Taliban. After surviving her family’s massacre, Leila has just one goal in life: to find her son Omid. But in a country where being a woman means being less than nothing, her chances are desperately slim, and so she chooses an extreme and dangerous solution. She radically changes her identity and sets out on a path where even the slightest hesitation can mean death.

Movie

Hard Shell

2024

Leila, a young and talented tightrope walker, was banned from performing by the authorities. Since then, she has been working in her father's old circus. Samir is a teenager who falls in love with Leila and, instead of going to school, spends his days at the circus. At the same time, as political and economic problems in Iran deepen, the boy's father, Siamak, after many years of working in different jobs, gets a job as a foreman on a small donkey farm. When the animals start to disappear, he comes across terrible secrets and a web of corruption.

Movie

Dwelling Among the Gods

2024

A young Afghan woman comes to Belgrade at the height of the migrant wave and learns that her younger brother drowned in the river three weeks earlier. Then her struggle begins to bury him under her full name.

10.0

The Asphalt Jungle

2024

Hengameh needs money to save his brother's life. He takes a big risk to prepare this money and...

Movie

Won't You Cry?

2022

A man loses the ability to cry after the death of his younger brother. As he deals with grief and the separation from his wife, he tries to reconcile his job at a football website with depression and a lack of meaning in life.

1.0

Movie

Squad Of Girls

2022

The story shows a different point of view of Iraq's invasion since it's narrated by self sacrificing fearless women who reach the army fortress in order to bring back weapons and ammunitions to stand against the enemy.

6.8

The Frog

2020

Ramin plans a robbery on his childhood classmate Noori who has become a mysterious rich man and that's just a beginning of a brutal journey.

6.3

Movie

Yalda

2020

Maryam accidentally killed her husband Nasser and is sentenced to death. The only person who can save her is Mona, Nasser's daughter. All Mona has to do is appear on a TV show and forgive Maryam. But forgiveness proves difficult when they are forced to relive the past.

6.0

Movie

Seven and a Half

2019

There are seven stories of seven women. Though each has her own individual story, none had the chance of finding love having lost control of their destiny through either forced marriage or rape.

1.5

Movie

Tsunami

2019

This cinematic film addresses the competitive challenges faced by athletes and has been written jointly by Milad Sadr Amali and Ali Asghari.

5.8

Movie

Rona, Azim's Mother

2018

Azim, an afghan refugee, who works at the municipality at night, lives in Tehran along with his family. Being the head of entire family, he has to choose between his own life and his mother’s whom he has always claimed as the most important one in his life.

6.4

Movie

Departure

2016

Two young Afghans, Fereshteh and Nabi, are in love, but Fereshteh has to follow her parents and leave Afghanistan to find refuge in Iran. Nabi decides to illegally cross the border, find Fereshteh and take her through Turkey towards Europe and a better life.