After playing in Ridley Scott's Body of Lies (2008), she was banned from leaving her home country Iran in February 2008 on her way to
London to make a screen test for Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time (2010). The role she was set to audition for eventually went to English actress
Gemma Arterton. This was only reported six months later when she
actually could leave the country. She now lives in Paris, France.
Fluent in English, French, and Farsi. Some knowledge of Arabic and Kurdish.
Her underground rock band "Kooch" got the first prize at the 2nd Tehran Avenue Underground Rock Festival in 2003. Rock music and women singing are banned in Iran.