Bahar Pars (Persian: بهار پارس) is an Iranian-Swedish actress and filmmaker. She has performed on stage and screen, and is best known for her supporting role in the 2015 film A Man Called Ove.
Early life and education
Bahar Pars was born in Shiraz, Iran, and moved to Trelleborg, Sweden, in 1989 with her family after the war between Iran and Iraq.
Between 2003 and 2007 she studied to become an actress at Teaterhögskolan in Stockholm (now 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 faller. In 2008 she performed the role of Nina in Farnaz Arbabi's Måsen at Backateatern. At Uppsala City Theatre, 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, the latter directed by Farnaz Arbabi.
In 2014, Pars acted in the Jonas Hassen Khemiris play Jag ringer mina bröder as the character Valerie, directed by Farnaz Arbabi at The House of Culture (Stockholm). In November the same year she performed the monologue play På alla fyra at Kilenscenen at Kulturhuset Stadsteatern.
She had the leading role as Bertha in the play Marodörer, written and directed by Jens Ohlin at the Royal Dramatic Theatre in 2015.
Pars a co-creator of Nyårsklockan, in which 15 female celebrities appear.
Awards
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".
In the 2016 Guldbaggen awards she was nominated in the Best Supporting Actress category for her role as Parvaneh in the 2015 film A Man Called Ove.
Television
2008 Åkalla
2008 Kungamordet (TV Mini Series)
2010 Drottningoffret
2010 Kommissarie Winter
2014 Den fjärde mannen (TV Mini Series)
2015 Arne Dahl: En midsommarnattsdröm
2016 Finaste familjen
2016 Vårdgården
2016 Gåsmamman
2017 Syrror
2018 Conspiracy of Silence
2018 Black Lake
2022 Vi i Villa
2023 Ingen Ängel
Filmography
2004 Flickpingis (Short Film)
2006 When Darkness Falls
2009 Knäcka
2009 Bebådelse (Short Movie)
2009 Portofino: The Philippines
2010 Fredlösa
2010 Händelse vid bank
2015 A Man Called Ove
2015 Rinkebysvenska (Director & Writer)
2016 Baby (Short Film)
2016 Zon 261
2017 Ariel (Short Film)
2017 TurkKiosken (Director)
2018 Operation Ragnarok
2022 Maya Nilo (Laura)
2022 The Year I Started Masturbating
2022 KageFabrikken
2023 Donkey Land (Director & Writer & Actress)
2023 The Conference
2024: Handling the Undead
Agentfirman Planthaber Kilden Mandic
Expressen intervju med Bahar Pars (Swedish)
SituationSTHLM intervju med Bahar Pars (Swedish)
Guldbaggen nominering - Bahar Pars (Swedish)