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Nelofer Pazira

Actor, Producer, Writer, Director, Additional CreditsBorn January 1, 1973 (52 years)
Nelofer Pazira is an Afghan-Canadian filmmaker, actress, journalist, and author, born in 1973 in Hyderabad, India. She was raised in Kabul, Afghanistan, and lived through a decade of Soviet occupation before fleeing to Pakistan in 1989 and immigrating to Canada in 1990. She studied journalism and English literature at Carleton University and earned a master’s degree in anthropology, sociology, and religion from Concordia University. In 2001, she starred in the film “Kandahar,” based on her real-life attempt to find a childhood friend. She later co-directed “Return to Kandahar” and authored the memoir “A Bed of Red Flowers.”

Known For

  • Kandahar
  • This Is Not a Movie
  • Act of Dishonour
  • An vorderster Front: Die Wahrheiten des Robert Fisk

Filmography

2010
Act of Dishonour · as Mejgan
2005
2001
Kandahar · as Nafas

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