Shohreh Aghdashloo
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05/10/1952
Tehran, Iran |
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| Although she was a well-known performer in her native Iran, she fled the country in 1978 after an acting workshop she was attending was closed by religious fundamentalist |
| With Touzie, she opened Drama Workshop '79, a Los Angeles-based theater company devoted to producing works in Farsi. |
| Returned to acting in the mid-'80s in a Farsi-language play and met the man who would become her second husband: actor, playwright and fellow Iranian expatriate Houshang Touzie. |
| Studied journalism in England, earning a B.A. in 1983. |
