Jamileh Sheykhi

Jamileh Sheykhi جمیله شیخی

Born	Jamileh Sheykhi May 19, 1930 Tabriz, Iran
Died	May 23, 2001(2001-05-23) (aged 71) Tehran, Iran
Occupation	Theatre and film actress
Height	1.65 m (5 ft 5 in)

Jamileh Sheykhi (Persian: جمیله شیخی ‎‎, May 19, 1930 – May 23, 2001) was an actress and mother of actor Atila Pesyani.

Career

She made her stage debut in 1957 and began film acting with Shipwreck (1975, Nosrat Karimi). As a pioneer and veteran character actress of Iranian theatre and cinema, she performed in a number of films with reputable directors. Sheykhi has a distinguished screen appearance in Travellers (1991, Bahram Bayzai) and won Best Actress at the International Fajr Film Festival.

Selected filmography

Visa
The Little Bird of Happiness, 1987
Mosāferan (Travellers), 1992, directed by Bahram Bayzai
Leila, 1996, directed by Dariush Mehrjoui
Kaghaz-e Bi Khatt (Unruled Paper), 2001, directed by Naser Taghvai

External links

Jamileh Sheikhi at the Internet Movie Database
Jamileh Sheykhi's photograph:
Photograph of Jamileh Sheykhi's grave:

Crystal Simorgh Best Actress

None (1983)
None (1984)
Parvaneh Massoumi (1985)
None (1986)
None (1987)
Parvaneh Massoumi (1988)
Roya Nonahali (1989)
Rogheyeh Chehreh-Azad (1990)
Farimah Farjami (1991)
Jamileh Sheykhi (1992)
Fatemeh Motamed-Arya (1993)
Fatemeh Motamed-Arya (1994)
Mina Lakani (1995)
Fatemeh Goudarzi (1996)
Golchehreh Sajadiye (1997)
Anis Shakouri (1998)
Hedieh Tehrani (1999)
Mitra Hajjar (2000)
Soraya Ghasemi (2001)
Taraneh Alidoosti (2002)
Niki Karimi (2003)
Gohar Kheirandish (2004)
Fereshteh Sadre Orafaee (2005)
Hedieh Tehrani (2006)
Baran Kosari (2007)
Hengameh Ghaziani (2008)
Leila Hatami (2009)
Negar Javaherian (2010)
Vishka Asayesh (2011)
Hengameh Ghaziani (2012)
Hanieh Tavassoli (2013)
Merila Zarei (2014)
Baran Kosari (2015)
Parinaz Izadyar (2016)

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