Soraya Esfandiari-Bakhtiari

Soraya Esfandiary-Bakhtiari's story moves me more than any film could. Famed for her beauty and married to the Shah of Iran, she was cast out in 1958 for being unable to bear an heir, discarded by the machinery of state for something entirely beyond her control. The cruelty of that still lands hard. What I respect is what came after: rather than vanish into exile as a footnote to a king, she tried to author her own life in European cinema. It rarely brought her the acclaim of her royal years, but the attempt itself reads as quiet defiance against a fate she never chose.

Name (English)

Soraya Esfandiari-Bakhtiari

Name (Japanese)

ソラヤー・エスファンディヤーリー・バフティヤーリー

Reading

そらやー・えすふぁんでぃやーりー・ばふてぃやーりー

Born

June 22, 1932 – October 26, 2001

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Cancer / Monkey

Origin

Isa ibn Maryam Hospital, Iran

Occupation

film actor / actor

Awards & achievements

• Order of Isabella the Catholic‎
• 1955 Grand Cross Special Class of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
• Order of the Pleiades

• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soraya%20Esfandiary-Bakhtiary
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%BD%E3%83%A9%E3%83%A4%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%82%A8%E3%82%B9%E3%83%95%E3%82%A1%E3%83%B3%E3%83%87%E3%82%A3%E3%83%A4%E3%83%BC%E3%83%AA%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%83%90%E3%83%95%E3%83%86%E3%82%A3%E3%83%A4%E3%83%BC%E3%83%AA%E3%83%BC
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q225993

Tags

• film actor
• actor

Last updated

2026-06-17

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