# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/nazanin-boniadi
# Generated: 2026-08-14T22:32:41.022Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/nazanin-boniadi"
name: "Nazanin Boniadi"
slug: "nazanin-boniadi"
description: "Nazanin Boniadi is a British actress and activist. Born in Tehran and raised in London, she attended university in the United States, where she landed her first major acting role as Leyla Mir in the soap opera General Hospital (2007–2009) and its spin-off General Hospital: Night Shift (2007). Since then, Boniadi has played Nora in the sitcom How I Met Your Mother (2011), Fara Sherazi in the spy thriller series Homeland (2013–2014), Esther in the historical drama film Ben-Hur (2016), Clare Quayle in the sci-fi thriller series Counterpart (2017–2018), Zahra Kashani in the action thriller film Hotel Mumbai (2018), and Bronwyn in the first season of the fantasy series The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power (2022)."
tagline: "British-Iranian actress"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Nazanin_Boniadi_speaking_in_a_conversation_on_women%E2%80%99s_rights_in_Iran_at_the_Georgetown_Institute_for_Women%2C_Peace_and_Security_-_5_December_2018_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
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  isoCode: "GB"
category:
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  slug: "actors"
profileType:
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birthDate: "1980-05-22"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump