Mehri Mehrnia

Mehri Mehrnia — Biography

In a career of some fifty years, Iranian actress Mehri Mehrnia, born Fatemeh Marmouzian, appeared in more than forty films. She worked in cinema, theatre and television, and her roles included maids and elderly women; in 2006 her contribution to Iranian cinema was honoured at a ceremony in Tehran.

She was born in Alasht in Mazandaran, attended school up to the sixth grade and then left to sing and perform. Her first film work was Amin Amini's Babysitter (1953). In the 1960s she was seen in A Traveler from Heaven (1963), The Bride and Rural songs (1964), Brick and Mirror (1964) and Ferhat ile Şirin (1970). In the 1970s she appeared in A Man for Rent and Reza Haft-Khat (1972), playing the maid Kobra in the former. The 1980s brought The Inner Beast (1983), Otoboos (1985), Dust Devil (1986) and The Grand Day (1989), in which she played Gol Agha's mother. The Rose (1990), The Way and the Wayless (1991), Dear Wednesday (1993), Kolah Ghermezi and Pesar Khaleh (1994) and The Blue Veiled (1995) came later, and in 2001 she appeared in the series The Miracle of Marriage.

She died in Tehran on 18 February 2009 and was buried in the artists' section of Behesht-e Zahra.