Actress & Award-Winning Human Rights Activist
Nazanin Boniadi: Biography at a Glance
- Nazanin Boniadi is an Iranian-born, SAG, and AACTA Award-nominated actress and renowned activist.
- Her TV and film credits include How I Met Your Mother, Homeland, Counterpart, and Hotel Mumbai. She stars in Amazon’s Lord of the Rings series.
- Nazanin, whose family fled Iran as political refugees when she was just a few weeks old, is an outspoken human rights and women's rights activist.
- She is an Amnesty International UK Ambassador and has partnered with the US arm of the non-profit since 2008 to campaign for the rights of disenfranchised populations across the world, with a focus on unjust conviction and treatment of Iranian youth, women, and prisoners of conscience.
- Her opinions have been published in global media outlets including The Washington Post, CNN, Defense One, and The New York Times.
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Nazanin Boniadi is a SAG and AACTA nominated, Iranian-born, British-American actress. She is also a renowned human rights and women’s rights activist, 2023 Sydney Peace Prize Laureate, Amnesty International UK Ambassador, Boroumand Center for Human Rights in Iran Board Member, a member of the steering committee for the World Movement for Democracy, as well as a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Her global speaking engagements have included addressing the UN Security Council; British, Canadian, and Australian Parliaments; German Bundestag; Munich Security Conference; World Economic Forum; Paris Peace Conference; Nobel Peace Prize Forum; Oslo Freedom Forum; Oxford Union; Georgetown University; George Washington University; and the University of Sydney.
