Taraneh Alidoosti is an Iranian actress. She is best known internationally for her role in
The Salesman (2016), which won the Best Foreign Language Film Award at the 89th Academy Awards. In a poll conducted among 130 film critics by
Sanate Cinema magazine, she was voted the best Iranian movie actress of the decade. In 2012, a similar poll by the
Film magazine also chose her as the best actress of the decade. Recently, she has been arrested by the Islamic Republic authorities for her support of the protests against the government.