Jasmin Tabatabai

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Jasmin Tabatabai
یاسمین طباطبائی
Jasmin Tabatabai.jpg
Jasmin Tabatabai in 2006
Born (1967-06-08) 8 June 1967 (age 57)
NationalityGerman
OccupationActor
Years active1992–present
Spouse
(m. 2003;div. 2008)
Partner Andreas Pietschmann (2007–present)
Children3

Jasmin Tabatabai (Persian : یاسمین طباطبائی [jɒːsˈmiːntæbɒːtæbɒːˈʔiː] ; born 8 June 1967 in Tehran, Iran, is a German actress and singer.

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Biography

Jasmin Tabatabai's mother is German, and her father is Iranian. She was born and raised 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.

Career

She was discovered for the screen 1992 as main character in the Swiss feature film Children of the Open Road, what brought her the award as best actress at the Amiens Film Festival in France. During her early work as actress in Berlin, she co-founded the band Even Cowgirls Get the Blues as singer and songwriter. [1]

The 1997 German film Bandits exposed Jasmin Tabatabai to a larger audience. In addition to her acting role in the film, she also wrote and performed many of the songs for the soundtrack. The record for the film sold more than seven hundred thousand copies. She also voiced Megara in the German dub of Hercules.

Tabatabai's first album as a solo artist, Only Love, was released in 2002 along with the single After You Killed Me. Soon after she founded her own record label, polytrash. She also composed songs for the soundtrack of the 2004 movie Iron Jawed Angels together with then-husband Tico Zamora.

Personal life

Jasmin Tabatabai with her partner Andreas Pietschmann at the Berlinale 2017 MJK30681 Jasmin Tabatabai and Andreas Pietschmann (Berlinale 2017).jpg
Jasmin Tabatabai with her partner Andreas Pietschmann at the Berlinale 2017

In December 2001, Tabatabai met American musician Tico Zamora. [2] On 3 December 2002 she gave birth to their first and only child, a daughter named Angelina Sherri Rose. [3] [4] She and Zamora married on 1 June 2003 and separated by summer 2006. Their divorce was finalized in 2008.

She has been in a relationship with actor Andreas Pietschmann since summer 2007. They have two children: a daughter, Helena Leila (born 5 July 2009), [5] and a son, Johan Anton (born 13 August 2013). Tabatabai and Pietschmann reside in Berlin. [6]

Awards

Partial filmography

Music

Jasmin Tabatabai & David Klein Orchester

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References

  1. "Jasmin Tabatabai: "Musik ist meine Religion"". November 19, 2017.
  2. "Jasmin Tabatabai - News archive, December 2007". jasmin-tabatabai.com. Retrieved 2019-10-23.
  3. "Jasmin Tabatabai - News archive, January 2003". jasmin-tabatabai.com. Retrieved 2019-10-23.
  4. "Jasmin Tabatabai - News archive, December 2002". jasmin-tabatabai.com. Retrieved 2019-10-23.
  5. "Jasmin Tabatabai - News archive, July 2009". jasmin-tabatabai.com. Retrieved 2019-10-23.
  6. dpa bzw. Online-Magazin Stern