Shohreh Aghdashloo, the Iranian-born star of The Stoning of Soraya M. and House of Sand and Fog, shares her horror over Iran’s barbaric decision to stone a woman to death for committing adultery.
Shohreh Aghdashloo was born in Tehran, Iran, on May 11, 1952. In the 1970s at age 20, she achieved nationwide stardom in her homeland of Iran, starring in some prominent pictures such as Gozaresh (1977) (The Report) directed by the renowned Abbas Kiarostami, which won critics awards at the Moscow Film Festival. During the 1978 Islamic revolution, Aghdashloo left Iran for England, earned a B.A. degree in International Relations.