Jasmin Tabatabai

Jasmin Tabatabai (Persian: یاسمین طباطبائی [jɔːsˈmiːn tæbɔːtæbɔːˈiː] ), born June 8, 1967 in Tehran, Iran, is a German-Iranian singer, songwriter and actress.

Life and Work

Jasmin Tabatabai was born and lived in Tehran until the 1979 Islamic Revolution, at which point she migrated with her mother to Germany. After her completion of school, she studied drama in the arts college in Stuttgart. Soon after that, she entered into the film industry and has since starred or co-starred in over forty films. During her early work as actress in Berlin, she co-founded the band "Even Cowgirls get the Blues" as singer and songwriter.

The internationally successful 1997 German film "Bandits", exposed Jasmin Tabatabai to a larger audience. With this movie, where she played a prisoner on the run, she gained critical acclaim as actress as well as for the soundtrack, written and performed mostly by her. The record for the film sold more than seven hundred thousand copies. Her first album as a solo artist, "Only Love", was released in 2002 along with the single "After You Killed Me". Soon after that, she founded her own record label, "polytrash", providing for her need of creative freedom. She also composed songs for the soundtrack of the 2004 movie Iron Jawed Angels together with the American singer Tico Zamora, whom she had married the year before.

Awards

*1997 Bavarian Film Award, Best Film Score [http://www.bayern.de/Anlage19170/PreistraegerdesBayerischenFilmpreises-Pierrot.pdf]

Films

* 1997 "Bandits"
* 1999 "Late Show"
* 2001 "Moonlight Tariff"
* 2005 "Fremde Haut"
* 2006 "Elementarteilchen"

Music

* 1997 Bandits soundtrack
* 2002 Only Love
* 2004 Iron Jawed Angels soundtrack
* 2007 Blood and Chocolate soundtrack

External links

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* [http://jasmintabatabai.de Offical homepage]
* [http://jasmin-tabatabai.com Fanpage (German/English)]