Melika Foroutan

Melika Foroutan, born 6 September 1976 in Tehran to football manager Bahman Foroutan,^[1] initially studied philosophy, English and history in Cologne from 1995 to 1998. She then enrolled in the acting class at the University of Arts (UdK) in Berlin, where she graduated in 2002. In the three following years, she was part of the company at the Schauspielhaus Leipzig.

She had breakout roles in 2006 with the drama Wut ("Anger") and as police officer Silvia Henke in the critically acclaimed TV show KDD – Kriminaldauerdienst. In 2015 she was awarded best actress at the Hessischer Filmpreis for her role in Louise Boni.

The 70th Filmfest Berlin featured Foroutan in the title role of the film Pari, directed by Siamak Etemadi in the Section Panorama. When Iranian Pari arrives in Athens with her husband, her son is not at the airport as planned. Pari sets off in search of him and gets deeply caught up in the fabric of this foreign city.

As of January 2013, Foroutan was living in Berlin with a male partner from Dortmund.^[2]

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