Biography
Born in Teheran in 1967, Jasmin Tabatabai grew up in Iran and Germany. A trained musician, she had her break-through in feature film with Katja von Garnier’s commercially successful road movie BANDITS. Playing the boss of a women’s jail band, she became an idol for a whole new generation of young women. Tabatabai also composed the film’s hugely successful score that sold over 700,000 units, winning the “Golden Vinyl Record Award”.
The BANDITS score is said to be the biggest-selling European soundtrack ever. In the late 1990s, Tabatabai became an icon of German film, playing lead characters in Helmut Dietl’s LATE NIGHT SHOW or Xavier Koller’s Oscar-nominated Tucholsky-adaptation GRIPSHOLM. Her award-winning performance as a Persian lesbian posing as a heterosexual man in UNVEILED, distributed in the US by Wolfe Releasing, has made her a favourite at the 2006 German Film Awards, on a par with German actress du jour Nadja Uhl.
Journal Filmproduktion
Actress
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2020 |
Berlin - Schicksalsjahre einer Stadt (series) - narrator |
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Das Jahr 1999 - narrator (S04E10) |
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Das Jahr 1998 - narrator (S04E09) |
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Das Jahr 1997 - narrator (S04E08) |
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2019 |
Berlin - Schicksalsjahre einer Stadt (series) - narrator |
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Das Jahr 1994 - narrator (S04E05) |
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Das Jahr 1993 - narrator (S04E04) |
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Das Jahr 1992 - narrator (S04E03) |
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2007 |
Here's Looking at You, Boy - a.f. |
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The Making of 'Fay Grim' or: How Do You Spell Espionage? |
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2019 |
The Manchador |
2001 |
Pieces of My Heart (student film) |
1998 |
Help the Old (student film) |
1994 |
Clemi flüchtet |
1992 |
Welcher Film |
Guest
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2014 |
MDR um 4 |
2004 |
Harald Schmidt |
1999 |
Beckmann |
Volle Kanne |
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Wer wird Millionär? |
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1991 |
DAS! |
1979 |
NDR Talk Show |
1974 |
3nach9 |