Bahar Pars (; born 28 March 1979) is an Iranian-Swedish actress and director.

Early life

Pars was born in

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, Iran, and came to

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, Sweden in 1989 with her family after the war between Iran and

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. Between 2003 and 2007 she studied to become an actress at Teaterhögskolan in

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(nowadays Stockholms dramatiska högskola).

Career

Pars has had several roles in plays and also several films. She made her film debut in the 2006 film ''När mörkret faller''. In 2008 she performed the role of Nina in Farnaz Arbabi's ''Måsen'' at Backateatern. At Uppsala stadsteater, Pars played the title roles in the plays ''

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'' in 2010, the stage version of ''Låt den rätta komma'' in 2011, and ''

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'' in 2013, the latter directed by Farnaz Arbabi. In 2014, Pars acted in the

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s play ''Jag ringer mina bröder'' as the character Valerie, directed by Farnaz Arbabi at

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. In November the same year she performed the monologue play ''På alla fyra'' at Kilenscenen at Kulturhuset Stadsteatern. The newspaper ''Svenska Dagbladet'' reviewed Pars' performance favourably and described it as "she had total control of her ways of expressions". Outside of acting, Pars has also directed and been one of the creators ''Nyårsklockan'', in which fifteen female culture-personalities appear. In 2015, she was awarded the Medea Award with the citation "In her own personal way Bahar Pars widens the ways to play classical female roles and bring them into our present time". She had the leading role as Bertha in the play ''Marodörer'', written and directed by Jens Ohlin at the

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in 2015. Ahead of the 2016 Guldbaggen awards she was nominated in the category Best Supporting Actress for her role as Parvaneh in the 2015 film '' A Man Called Ove''.

Television

* 2008 ''Åkalla'' * 2008 ''Kungamordet'' (TV Mini Series) * 2010 ''Drottningoffret'' * 2010 ''Kommissarie Winter'' * 2014 ''Den fjärde mannen'' (TV Mini Series) * 2015 ''Arne Dahl: En midsommarnattsdröm'' * 2016 ''Finaste familjen'' * 2016 ''Vårdgården'' * 2016 ''Gåsmamman'' * 2017 ''Syrror'' * 2018 ''Conspiracy of Silence'' * 2018 ''Black Lake'' * 2022 ''Vi i Villa'' * 2023 ''Ingen Ängel''

Filmography

* 2004 ''Flickpingis'' (Short Film) * 2006 '' When Darkness Falls'' * 2009 ''Knäcka'' * 2009 ''Bebådelse'' (Short Movie) * 2009 ''Portofino: The Philippines'' * 2010 ''Fredlösa'' * 2010 ''Händelse vid bank'' * 2015 '' A Man Called Ove'' * 2015 ''Rinkebysvenska'' (Director & Writer) * 2016 ''Baby'' (Short Film) * 2016 ''Zon 261'' * 2017 ''Ariel'' (Short Film) * 2017 ''TurkKiosken'' (Director) * 2018 ''Operation Ragnarok'' * 2022 ''Maya Nilo (Laura)'' * 2022 '' The Year I Started Masturbating'' * 2022 ''KageFabrikken'' * 2023 ''Donkey Land'' (Director & Writer & Actress) * 2023 The Conference * 2024: ''

Handling the Undead ''Handling the Undead'' () is a 2005 horror novel by Swedish writer John Ajvide Lindqvist, translated into English in 2009. The book revolves around the unexplained reanimation of thousands of recently deceased people in Stockholm. The plot focu ...

References

External links

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Agentfirman Planthaber Kilden Mandic

Expressen intervju med Bahar Pars (Swedish)

SituationSTHLM intervju med Bahar Pars (Swedish)

Guldbaggen nominering - Bahar Pars (Swedish)
{{DEFAULTSORT:Pars, Bahar Living people 1979 births 21st-century Swedish actresses Iranian emigrants to Sweden Actors from Shiraz Refugees in Sweden Iranian refugees Swedish film actresses Swedish television actresses Swedish women film directors People from Trelleborg