Bahar Pars

Bahar Pars (born 1979) is a Swedish actress and director. Pars won the Medea-award för Actress of the year 2015, and she also received the STOCKmotion award for Best Film of the Year for the short film Rinkebysvenska which she had directed. She was nominated for a Guldbaggen award in the Best Supporting Actress category in 2016 for her role in the film A Man Called Ove.

Biography

Early life

Bahar was born in Shiraz, Iran, and came to Trelleborg, Sweden in 1989 after her family fled the war between Iran and Iraq. Between 2003 and 2007 she studied to become an actress at Teaterhögskolan in Stockholm (nowadays Stockholms dramatiska högskola).

Career

Pars has had several roles in plays and also several films. She made her film debut in the 2006 film När mörkret fallet. In 2008 she performed the role of Nina in Farnaz Arbabis Måsen at Backateatern. At Uppsala stadsteater Pars played the title roles in the plays Anna Karenina in 2010, the stage version of Låt den rätta komma in 2011, and Hedda Gabler in 2013.

In 2014 Pars acted in the Jonas Hassen Khemiris play Jag ringer mina bröder as the character Valerie, at Kulturhuset Stadsteatern. In November the same year she performed the monologue play På alla fyra at Kilenscenen at Kulturhuset Stadsteatern. The newspaper Svenska Dagbladet reviewed Pars' performance favourably and described it as "she had total control of her ways of expressions". Outside of acting, Pars has also directed and been one of the creators Nyårsklockan, in which fifteen female culture-personalities appear.

In 2015 she was awarded the Medea Award with the citation "In her own personal way Bahar Pars widens the ways to play classical female roles and bring them into our present time". She had the leading role as Bertha in the play Marodörer at Dramaten in 2015.

Ahead of the 2016 Guldbaggen awards she was nominated in the category Best Supporting Actress for her role as Parvaneh in the 2015 film A Man Called Ove.

Television

• 2008 Åkalla
• 2008 Kungamordet
• 2010 Drottningoffret
• 2014 Den fjärde mannen
• 2015 Arne Dahl: En midsommarnattsdröm
• 2016 Finaste familjen
• 2016 Vårdgården

Filmography

• 2006 När mörkret faller
• 2009 Knäcka
• 2010 Kommissarie Winter
• 2010 Fredlösa
• 2010 Händelse vid bank
• 2015 A Man Called Ove
• 2016 Zon 261