ABOUT SADAF TAHERIAN
Iranian actress who became the center of a cultural firestorm when, in 2015, she posted pictures of herself without a hijab to social media in protest of Iran's laws requiring the traditional garb. Her best-known works include films like 2013's No Where No Body.
She made her acting debut in the 2010 short film Filmi Kutāh Barāy-e Hamsaram.
In response to her act of protest, she was banned from acting by the Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance. Her photographs were also Photoshopped to include a hijab.
She was born in Tehran, Iran.
She co-starred with Bahram Radan in the 2015 family drama Ice Age.
