# Nikohl Boosheri

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{{Short description|Canadian actress}}
{{Use Canadian English|date=July 2013}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=August 2020}}
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| name               = Nikohl Boosheri
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| birth_date         = {{birth date and age|df=yes|1988|9|3}}<ref name="issue"/>
| birth_place        = Pakistan<ref name="issue"/>
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| citizenship        = Canada, Iran
| occupation         = Actress
| years_active       = 2010–present
| alma_mater         = [Simon Fraser University](/source/Simon_Fraser_University)<ref name="payvand.com">{{cite web|url=http://www.payvand.com/news/11/jul/1212.html|title=Circumstance A groundbreaking, sensual film about youth in search of freedom in Iran|publisher=PayVand.com|date=21 July 2011|accessdate=6 March 2012|archive-date=15 August 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180815045714/http://www.payvand.com/news/11/jul/1212.html|url-status=dead}}</ref>
| education          = [Performing Arts](/source/Performing_Arts)<ref name="payvand.com"/>
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'''Nikohl Boosheri''' ({{langx|fa|نیکول بوشهری}}) is an [Iranian](/source/Iran) actress with [Canadian citizenship](/source/Canada). She is best known for her role as Adena El-Amin on [Freeform's](/source/Freeform_(TV_channel)) ''[The Bold Type](/source/The_Bold_Type).''

==Biography==
Boosheri was born in [Pakistan](/source/Pakistan)<ref name="issue">{{cite web|title=NIKOHL BOOSHERI |url=https://issuemagazine.com/nikohl-boosheri/#/ |work=ISSUE Magazine |quote=BIRTH DATE: Sep 3 BIRTH PLACE: Pakistan |access-date=10 October 2019}}</ref> to [Iranian](/source/Iranian_peoples) parents while they were fleeing [Iran](/source/Iran) and moved to Canada when she was 2 months old. She has never been to [Iran](/source/Iran).<ref name="nytimes.com">{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/21/movies/circumstance-a-film-of-underground-life-in-iran.html?pagewanted=all|title=Living and Loving Underground in Iran|newspaper=New York Times.com|date=19 August 2011|accessdate=6 March 2012}}</ref> She speaks English and [Persian](/source/Persian_language).<ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.straight.com/movies/vancouvers-nikohl-boosheri-enters-taboo-world-iranian-lesbian-film-circumstance | title=Vancouver's Nikohl Boosheri enters a taboo world in Iranian lesbian film Circumstance | date=26 October 2011 | newspaper=The Georgia Straight | first=Michelle | last=da Silva | accessdate=7 July 2018 }}</ref>

== Filmography ==
===Film===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Year !! Title !! Role !! class="unsortable" | Notes
|-
| 2011 || ''[Circumstance](/source/Circumstance_(2011_film))'' || Atafeh Hakimi || Best Actress Award at [Noor Iranian Film Festival](/source/Noor_Iranian_Film_Festival)
|-
| 2013 || ''[Farah Goes Bang](/source/Farah_Goes_Bang)'' || Farah Mahtab ||
|-
| 2018 || data-sort-value="Wedding, The" | ''[The Wedding](/source/The_Wedding_(2018_Film))'' || Sara<ref>{{cite web|url=https://deadline.com/2017/08/nikohl-boosheri-sam-abbas-the-wedding-movie-lance-lim-elizabeth-crossing-movie-1202156389/|title=Nikohl Boosheri, Sam Abbas Star In 'The Wedding'|publisher=Deadline|date=25 August 2017}}</ref> ||
|-
| 2020 || ''[Alia's Birth](/source/Alia's_Birth_(2020_film))'' || Tess ||
|-
| 2021 || ''[See You Then](/source/See_You_Then_(film))'' || Julie ||
|-
|2025 || ''[Rule Breakers](/source/Rule_Breakers_(film))'' ||[Roya Mahboob](/source/Roya_Mahboob)|| 
|}

===Television===
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! Year !! Title !! Role !! class="unsortable" | Notes
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| 2010 ||  ''[Tower Prep](/source/Tower_Prep)''  || Assistant||Episode: "Snitch"
|-
| 2012 || ''[Continuum](/source/Continuum_(TV_series))'' || Laura Kellog ||Episode: "Laura"
|-
| 2013 || ''Futurestates'' || Sonia Elhami ||Episode: "Refuge"
|-
|2015 || ''[Seeds of Yesterday](/source/Seeds_of_Yesterday_(film))'' || Toni || Television film
|-
|2016 || ''[Supergirl](/source/Supergirl_(TV_series))'' || Kelly Sotto || Episode: "Changing"
|-
|2017–2021 || data-sort-value="Bold Type, The" | ''[The Bold Type](/source/The_Bold_Type)''|| Adena El-Amin ||Recurring role (season 1, 3–5), 14 episodes<hr> Main role (season 2), 8 episodes<ref>{{cite web|url=https://deadline.com/2018/01/the-bold-type-promoted-nikohl-boosheri-stephen-conrad-moore-season-2-premiere-1202248242/|title='The Bold Type' Ups Nikohl Boosheri & Stephen Conrad Moore to Regulars; Sets Season 2 Premiere|last=Petski|first=Denise|publisher=Deadline|date=18 January 2018|accessdate=24 January 2018}}</ref>
|-
|2018 || ''[Altered Carbon](/source/Altered_Carbon_(TV_series))'' || Nalan Ertekin || Episodes: "The Killers" and "In a Lonely Place"
|}

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
*{{IMDb name|3970988}}

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Category:Living people
Category:Actresses from Vancouver
Category:Canadian film actresses
Category:Canadian people of Iranian descent
Category:Iranian expatriates in Pakistan
Category:Film people of Iranian descent
Category:1988 births

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