Shabnam Tolouei ( شبنم طلوعی ) is an Iranian actress, theatre director, and playwright. She has studied in the field of filmmaking in Tehran, at Bagh-Ferdos Film & Culture School and has been acting on stage since 1993. She won Best Actress twice in the 14th and 22nd International Fajr International Theatre Festival in Iran (1996 and 2004). Some of her most recent film appearances include roles in The Day I Became a Woman (2000), A House Built on Water (2003) and Goli Baraye Maryam (200
...4), but she is mostly known for her starring role as Munis in the 2009 Venice Festival Silver Lion award-winning Iranian film Women Without Men (2009) by Shirin Neshat. Shabnam Tolouei also played in Sepideh Farsi feature film Red Rose (2014) nominated for the Best Feature award at Chicago International Film festival 2014. She also played in a series called No Comment by Mehdi Mazloomi and another one titled Neyestan (Land of Reeds) by Mohammad Mokhtari.
Shabnam Tolouei (شبنم طلوعی) has been a Actor in some movies:
A House on Water is about that Dr. Sepidbakht runs over an angel one night while driving, and his fingers are deeply wounded after touching the angel. The next day at the hospital, the nurse informs him that a young unconscious boy has been brought to their ward by mistake. Dr. Sepidbakht has an encounter with Ms. Taleghani, one of his old colleagues with whom he used to have a romantic affair. Ms. Taleghani, who had left the hospital for a cancer treatment, complains about Dr. Sepidbakht's behavior. He confesses that he has felt weird after seeing the boy who knows the entire Quran by heart. His secretary, Jaleh, also complains to him about their past involvement and that she can never bear a child but he ignores her. He goes to visit his father at the retirement home and a sad conflict happens between them...
Dr. Sepedbakht informs his secretary that the passengers of a white Peykan have been following him for a while and he asks her for an address to have a burglar alarm installed. His son, Mani, who has been living abroad for 15 years, comes back to Tehran, but gets arrested at the airport for carrying drugs. Dr. Sepidbakht manages to bail him out but at midnight he realizes that his son is injecting himself with drugs. He decides to take him to clinic to quit but Mani escapes the clinic. While searching for his son, he accidentally sees Jaleh's father and finds out that she has not been in contact with them for a long time, and is living alone. Jaleh is in contact with Dr. Sepidbakht's pursuers and sends them to the person who installed his alarm and get the code from him. At the hospital, the doctor sees a colored string and follows it to the young boy's room. The boy wakes up and asks Sepidbakht to take him away. At the house, the boy confesses that he first started to read Quran to attract others' attention but then he started to enjoy it and memorized all of it out of passion. However, when his parents started taking him to different places and showing him off, he got scared and passed out. During the night, the doctor wakes up from the sound of the alarm and sees some people dressed in black. He hides the boy in the closet and goes downstairs, but is attacked and killed by the intruders. The boy approaches him, takes his head in his hands and says: "I am with you." In this film Shabnam Tolouei (شبنم طلوعی) collaborates with Bita Farahi (بیتا فرهی), Ezzatolah Entezami (عزتالله انتظامی), Hediyeh Tehrani (هدیه تهرانی), Jamshid Mashayekhi (جمشید مشایخی), Mehran Rajabi (مهران رجبی), Reza Kianian (رضا کیانیان), Roya Nonahali (رویا نونهالی), Behnaz Jafari (بهناز جعفری), Mohsen Ghazi Moradi (محسن قاضی مرادی), Mahmoud Kalari (محمود کلاری), Bahman Farmanara (بهمن فرمانآرا), Hossein Kasbian (حسین کسبیان), Parviz Abnar (پرویز آبنار), Abbas Ganjavi (عباس گنجوی), Farzam Manteghi (فرزام منطقی), Ahmad Pejman (احمد پژمان), Jalal Moayerian (جلال معیریان), Zhila Mehrjui (ژیلا مهرجویی), Amir Ghaffar Manesh (امیر غفارمنش), Mitra Mahaseni (میترا محاسنی)