Jamileh Sheykhi

Jamileh Sheykhi
جمیله شیخی
Born	(1930-04-30)30 April 1930 Zanjan, Iran
Died	23 May 2001(2001-05-23) (aged 71) Tehran, Iran
Occupation	Actress
Children	Atila Pesyani
Relatives	Setareh Pesyani (granddaughter) Fatemeh Naghavi (daughter-in-law)

Jamileh Sheykhi (Persian: جمیله شیخی, 30 April 1930^[1] – 23 May 2001) was an Iranian actress and the mother of actor Atila Pesyani.

Career[edit]

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 had a distinguished screen appearance in Travellers (1991, Bahram Bayzai) and won the Best Actress award at the International Fajr Film Festival.^[2][3][4]

Selected filmography[edit]

• 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

References[edit]

External links[edit]

• Jamileh Sheikhi at IMDb
• Jamileh Sheykhi's photograph: [1] Archived 18 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine
• Photograph of Jamileh Sheykhi's grave: [2] Archived 18 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine

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