ZARI KHOSHKAM VETERAN IRANIAN FILM ACTRESS WIFE OF ALI HATAMI AND MOTHER OF LEILA HATAMI PASSED AWAY

ZARI KHOSHKAM VETERAN IRANIAN FILM ACTRESS WIFE OF ALI HATAMI AND MOTHER OF LEILA HATAMI PASSED AWAY

Zari Khoshkam, a veteran Iranian film actress, wife of Ali Hatami, and mother of Leila Hatami, passed away yesterday, May 17th, due to a stroke and cardiac arrest

Zari Khoshkam, also known as Zahra Hatami, was born on December 29, 1947, in Isfahan. She completed her studies in Tehran and London. She began her acting career in 1971 with the film “Adamak.” She gained recognition as an actress with her role in the film “A Cottage Across the River

In 1971, she married Ali Hatami (director). After the birth of her daughter (Leila Hatami), she took a break from acting for many years. She resumed her career in 1997 with the film Jahan Pahlavan Takhti

Her acting resume is as follows

Films

• Adamak
• A Cottage Across the River
• Alcoholic
• Rashid
• Man of a Thousand Smiles
• Repentance
• Tappali
• Suitor
• Jahan Pahlavan Takhti
• Tehran, the New Era
• Portrait of a Lady Far Away
• What Time Is It in Your World
• Flaming

TV Series

• Sultan Sahebgharan
• Hezar Dastan

In 2008, she received the Ali Hatami Award for Best Screenwriter of Thirty Years of Post-Revolution Iranian Cinema at the Second Celebration of the Critics and Writers Association

The funeral ceremony for this artist will be held on Saturday, May 18th, at 11 AM in the Artists’ Section of Behesht-e Zahra Cemetery

The IIMDB website expresses its heartfelt condolences on the passing of this veteran and renowned Iranian film actress, first to her only child, Ms. Leila Hatami, and Mr. Ali Mosaffa, and then to all members of the Iranian Cinema House