Exiled Iranian Filmmaker Bahman Ghobadi Urges Movie Academy To Include “One Representative From Exiled Artists” For Oscar Consideration

Stand-up comedy has never been the easiest of career choices, especially when you are not only female, but British Iranian. But from the age of 10, when she discovered she could make grown-ups cry with laughter, Shappi Khorsandi never doubted she was funny.

EXCLUSIVE: Aml Ameen (I May Destroy You), four-time Emmy nominee CCH Pounder (The Shield), Michael Potts (Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom), Bill Irwin (Legion), Da’Vine Joy Randolph (The United States vs. Billie Holiday), Gus Halper (Fear the Walking Dead), Johnny Ramey (Poz Roz), Carra Patterson (Turner & Hooch), and Adrienne Warren (The Woman King) have joined the cast of Rustin, the latest film directed for Netflix by George C. Wolfe.

Arian Moayed may be on “Succession,” one of the hottest shows on television — but that doesn’t really impress his mom.The Iranian-born actor, 41, who came to the US following the 1979 Iranian Revolution, says that his mother is most proud of her other son who is every immigrant parents’ dream: a doctor.“Even being in a show like ‘Succession’ my mom still leads with, ‘He’s a doctor,'” Moayed said leading into Sunday night’s season premiere on HBO.Moayed plays Stewie Hosseini, a private equity

Prince William offered a few kind words to Robert Irwin, the son of the late Steve Irwin.  The Duke of Cambridge told the 17-year-old conservationist that his dad, known best as the Crocodile Hunter, would be "very proud of you." "Honestly, I was a big fan of your dad [Steve Irwin] and I am so sorry he's not here," the 39-year-old said to Robert while on a video conference clip obtained by People magazine.  "It's no surprise that you're a fan of crocodiles as well.The family trait has continued

EXCLUSIVE: Hyperion has inked comedian, actor, and filmmaker Aristotle Athari, who has just joined Saturday Night Live this season as a featured player, for representation.

Cristiano Ronaldo has scored his 115th international goal – extending his incredibly impressive goalscoring record.

Christopher Vourlias Greece’s Argonauts Productions has boarded “Forough: A Lonely Woman,” a biopic about iconoclastic Persian poet Forough Farrokhzad by BAFTA-nominated director Tina Gharavi (“I Am Nasrine”), ahead of its presentation in the co-production forum of Rome’s MIA market.The film follows the short and controversial life of Farrokhzad, a feminist icon who in the 1950s and ‘60s found a way to tell her story in an Iranian society not yet ready for the uncomfortable truths of female

Bindi Irwin welcomed her first child, Grace Warrior Irwin Powell, back in March. And on Monday, the 23-year-old conservationist shared an adorable photo to Instagram of her little girl 'talking' to the family dog Piggy.

Manchester United forward Cristiano Ronaldo on Saturday made his 181st appearance for Portugal, bettering the European record previously held by Spain's Sergio Ramos.

When writer-director Asghar Farhadi (A Separation) set out to tell the story behind his new film A Hero, he had the idea of looking at the steep up-and-down trajectory of a man’s life caused by one supposedly small action. It received a five-minute standing ovation at its Cannes Film Festival premiere and won the Grand Prize.

Every so often, a film truly becomes banned, typically due to content that is so violent and/or sexual that censors are scared to allow the film to be shown to the public. Back in the late-‘70s, Iran banned the film “Chess of the Wind” not because it is so racy that it was a danger to the public, but instead because the film dared to show people morally unscrupulous people during a time when the theocratic country was scared of showing such three-dimensional people.

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Ready to role-play! Britney Spears and Sam Asghari jokingly introduced their first child together on Monday, September 27.

Anna Marie de la Fuente Uruguayan filmmaker Manuel Nieto’s social thriller “The Employer and the Employee,” starring Nahuel Pérez Biscayart (“Persian Lessons” and “BPM” (Beats Per Minute), comes to the San Sebastian Film Festival to close the Horizontes Latinos sidebar on Thursday, Sept. 23.