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 – 23 May 2001) was an Iranian actress and the mother of actor Atila Pesyani.

Career

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.

Selected filmography

• 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

External links

• 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