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Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Gender

Female

Birthday

1972-11-08

Place of Birth

Tehran, Iran

Vishka Asayesh

Biography

Vishka Asayesh was born on November 7, 1972 in Tehran. She is an Iranian actress, set designer and an art director. She obtained a degree in set design from the U.K. She is also a sculptor and has exhibited her art works at Etemad Gallery in Tehran in 2012. Vishka Asayesh is an Iranian actress, performer, art director, and sculptor. She became a household name following her portrayal of a female fatal in the epic hit TV series Imam Ali. She has been nominated 3 times for the best actress award of the Fajr Film Festival and won the Crystal Simorgh for best actress in a leading role in 2011 for No Men Allowed. This was the first time this award was bestowed to a female in a comedy role in the history of this festival. Her most successful films include No Men Allowed (2011), Sperm Whale (2015), Me and Sharmin (2017), The Good, the Bad & the Corny (2017), and Sly (2018). Her latest role is in The Badger (2020) and is a total shift from her comedy performances in recent years. Her stage performances include The Beauty Queen of Leenane (2013), a dramatic play written by Irish playwright Martin McDonagh, and Mississippi Dies Seated (2016), based on a play by Friedrich Dürrenmatt. Vishka was also nominated for the best leading actress award for her role in The Beauty Queen of Leenane by the 11th Iranian Theater Actor Festival. Sculpting is one of Vishka’s main passions apart from cinema and theater and she has already exhibited her art at Etemad and Assar galleries in Tehran and is currently working on her next exhibition due in 2020.

Known for

Next Door Neighbor

Next Door Neighbor

Divar Be Divar (2017) Divar be Divar is a Iranian comedy show made in the Persian year 1396, or the year 2017. The show contains 2 seasons with 48 episodes in season 1, and 17 episodes in season 2. This show is about 4 families who have lost their money due to buying apartments. While having no place to stay, they all move to one big house, but things became crazier then expected.

The Mokhtar Narrative

The Mokhtar Narrative

The Mokhtar Narrative is an Epic/History television series directed by Davood Mirbagheri, based on the life of Al-Mokhtar. Over 140 actors were cast in it. Mokhtar Saqafi was a Shiite Muslim leader who sets up a rebellion movement in 686 A.D in the town of Kufa to avenge the martyrdom of Hussain (grandson of Islamic Prophet Muhammad).

Blue Whale

Blue Whale

Armin is a gifted and introspective student of network security that spends most of his time on his newly established book publishing site.

Imam Ali

Imam Ali

series focusing on the life of Ali ibn Abi Talib, directed by Davood Mirbagheri and originally broadcast in 1992 in 22 episodes. It was subsequently released on DVD, with other editions including one with English sub-titles, and one dubbed into Urdu. The series covers the events before the caliphate of Ali ibn Abi Talib to his assassination in Kufa, Iraq.

To Each His Own Cinema

To Each His Own Cinema

Commissioned to mark the 60th anniversary of the Cannes Film Festival, "To Each His Own Cinema" brought together 33 of the world's pre-eminent filmmakers to produce short pieces exploring the multifarious facets of cinema and their perspective on the state of their chosen artform in the early 21st century.

The Innocent

The Innocent

Bahman Mardani after, 30 years, turns back to Iran to find out about a puzzle that made him left his country.

Once Upon a Time, Mars

Once Upon a Time, Mars

On the ground, Nasser, a down-on-his-luck petty criminal and perpetually losing bettor, is about to make the last and biggest gamble of his life. Until then, he must hide himself from the enemies who thirst for his blood... On Mars, Luna, the Earth-Mars lady and real estate consultant of the Martian residence, is busy with work and family life problems. He is waiting for a mysterious package that is going to reach him from the ground...

Dracula

Dracula

Kamran Kamerva is informed that his son has been arrested for setting up betting sites abroad and that agents will come to him soon. Upon hearing this news, Kamerva boarded his helicopter and ...

Shirin

Shirin

A hundred and fourteen famous Iranian theater and cinema actresses and a French star: mute spectators at a theatrical representation of Khosrow and Shirin, a Persian poem from the twelfth century, put on stage by Kiarostami. The development of the text -- long a favorite in Persia and the Middle East -- remains invisible to the viewer of the film, the whole story is told by the faces of the women watching the show.

The Snow on the Pines

The Snow on the Pines

Piano teacher Roya (Mahnaz Afshar) realizes that her marriage to Ali is in a deadlock when she discovers some of her husband's secrets. In the meantime she meets a young musician (Saber Abar) and has to make a painful choice.

The Badger

The Badger

The Badger is the story of a 40-year-old woman called Soodeh Sharifzadegan who faces a strange incident, right before her second marriage.

Pig

Pig

A serial killer is going around killing Iran's most beloved filmmakers. Hasan, a blacklisted filmmaker himself, is depressed and wonders: why isn't he being targeted?

Seven Days

Seven Days

The imprisoned Iranian women’s rights activist Maryam is allowed to meet her family for seven days. Her husband and children beg Maryam to flee with them instead of returning to prison but she has not yet made her decision.

Sly

Sly

Ghodrat Samadi wants to become a member of parliament, but he has a reputation for recklessness and taking arbitrary action. Deciding his best course of action is negotiating with assorted parties and politicians, none take him seriously until he's connected to a single, notorious incident.

Me and Sharmin

Me and Sharmin

The story of a young girl Tina who believes in her aunt's forecasts which is affecting all her life. She is not getting married, waiting for her hidden half Sharmin to come.