Shohreh Lorestani was born in Tehran but due to her father's job she spent her early and teenage years traveling around Iran. She was in love with acting from her childhood and studied Directing and Acting at the Tehran University Faculty of Performance Arts. She made her film debut with NeedShohreh Lorestani has been a Actor in some movies:
Under the Peach Tree is about that For years members of a strange family have been predicting their time of death in their sleep taking place at 5 PM. When
...an old man from the family has a dream about his time of death, he summons his son and puts a condition on his will otherwise they can not inherit his wealth... In this film Shohreh Lorestani collaborates with Fatemeh Motamed Aria, Iraj Tahmasb, Pourandokht Mahiman, Reza Arabi, Mozhgan Danesh Yusefi, Ayda Doost-dar, Hossein Doost-dar, Fereydoon Eskandari, Pouria Ghasemi, Mahtab Ghiasi, Siamak Rashedi, Atash Taghipour, Hamid Jebeli, Fardak Mir-Kiani, Farhad Nikpoor, Ali Asghar Shahbazi, Majid Modaresi, Hamid Modarresi, Mohammad Reza Aligholi, Aziz Saati, Hayedeh Safiyari, Mehrdad Mirkiani, Anita Chaparian, Naser Asaadi Azar, Kamal Javadi, Sasan Nakhaei, Meshkin Mehregan, Abtin Barghi, Freydoun Khooshabafard, Mitra Mahaseni.
The Day I Became a Man is about that In this coming-of-age story, Gerdafarid, a tenacious young man, learns to open up and finds himself along the way. This comedy brings an unexpected trip through Teheran and a series of misadventures to see him change, literally and figuratively, with the help of his father and his neighbor, into the man he will become. In this film Shohreh Lorestani collaborates with Nader Soleymani, Anahita Hemati, Mehrdad Khoshbakht, Seyed Amir Parvin Hosseini, Abtin Sahami, Naser Fakhri, Babak Kaydan, Majid Shahryari, Iman Omidvari, Yousef Sayadi, Halimeh Saeedi, Arman Mousapour, Arjang Amirfazli, Masoud Shahverdi, Farkhondeh Farmanizadeh, Hossein Alinejad.
Leily is With Me is about that Being a television cinematographer with financial problems and a half built flat does not seem to work out very well for Sadegh Meshkini. During Iran-Iraq war when loan was only given to those who had fought in the war or were going to do so, he is told to make a documentary about the Iraqi captives in the war zone in order to get the loan. Reluctant as he is, he finds no way of changing his fate and eventually has to give up. In this film Shohreh Lorestani collaborates with Parviz Parastui, Mehdi Faghih, Kamal Tabrizi, Hashem Attar, Mojtaba Rahimi, Reza Maghsoodi, Behnam Abtahi, Mahmoud Azizi, Behrouz Moavenian, Ali Ghaffari, Rahim Mehdikhani, Hasan Hoseinian.
Half for Me, Half for You is about that Finding someone with whom you can share all your secrets may seem like a wonderful dream, but for Pouneh and Sepideh, that is exactly what they've found. The very best of friends, Pouneh and Sepideh share many of the same interests and fashion sense, but questions about their respective families reveal they may have more in common than they first thought: namely their father Bahram. Now the burden of choice is on him, Bahram's siblings urging him to reveal the truth of his double marriage, while his daughters encourage him to keep the secret hidden. In this film Shohreh Lorestani collaborates with Nader Soleymani, Shaghayegh Farahani, Mohammad Reza Sharifinia, Behzad Rahim Khani, Merila Zarei, Farhad Aeesh, Ali Sartipi, Gholamreza Azadi, Soheila Golestani, Hassan Ayoubi, Arash Boroomand, Asghar Abdollahi, Vahid Nikkhah Azad, Tarlan Parvaneh, Alma Oskoei, Rojan Aryamanesh, Maryam Amir Jalali, Amir Tavassoli, Mahmood Moosavinejad, Afsaneh Samadzadeh.
The Need is about that Set in Tehran during the aftermath of Ayatollah Khomeni's death, 'The Need' depicts the life of young, fatherless Ali as he attempts to enter manhood. Struggling to balance his work with his home life, Ali works as a laborer by day and studies by night to spare his vulnerable mother the need to support his schoolwork. When he is offered a lucrative placement in a printing works, he realizes this could be his ticket out of his menial construction job. However, he is not the only one vying for the position, and a bitter rivalry soon ensues between Ali and his eager competition, someone who has as much to gain, and lose, as Ali himself. In this film Shohreh Lorestani collaborates with Reza Radmanesh, Alireza Davoudnejad, Parviz Abnar, Mohammad Reza Aligholi, Yadollah Najafi, Hossein Maleki, Amir Hossein Ghasemii, Amir Molaei, Shojaoddin Habibian, Hossein Ghaffari, Mohammadreza Mouyini, Ezzatollah Solhju Mehraban, Ali Suri, Mohammadreza Davoudnejad, Tarahom Fathi, Ali Akbar Ghazinezam, Ahmad Kalantari, Namdar Moshiri, Mohammad Gholami, Amirali Vajedsamiei, Hossein Mir Aghai, Mohammad Yoosefi.
Iran Burger is about that This film is about a fictional village in Iran and two candidates that are competing for people's votes in a local election. In this film Shohreh Lorestani collaborates with Ahmad Mehranfar, Ali Nasirian, Hamid Goudarzi, Mohammadreza Hedayati, Niousha Zeighami, Esmaeel Khalaj, Gohar Kheirandish, Fathollah Jafari Jozani, Mohsen Tanabandeh, Masoud Jafari Jozani, Mohammad Hadi Karimi, Touraj Mansouri, Nima Jafari Jozani, Hadi Kazemi, Mahin Navidi, Hassan Zahedi, Asghar Nejad-Imani, Mirtaher Mazloumi, Amir Abedi, Bahram Afshari, Siavash Cheraghipour, Sirous Meymanat, Arashk Rafiei, Mansoor Nobakht, Fariba Motekhases, Sahar Jafari Jozani, Sadegh Tavakoli.
Pay Back is about that Ziba and three of her prison cohorts, recently released from a Tehran prison, settle in an out of town doctor's house posing as house sitters and embark on a get rich quick scheme. Ziba's plan for the women is a scam involves kidnapping unsuspecting male drivers them after one of the women uses her feminine guiles posing as a pedestrian. The women then kidnap and extort money from the men at gunpoint. Meanwhile, Sara battles drug addiction, while another's sister's abusive husband fights with her and threatens the whole scheme. The women seek a kind of moral justice but will they persevere in a man's world? In this film Shohreh Lorestani collaborates with Ahmad Mehranfar, Akbar Abdi, Gholam Hossein Lotfi, Hamed Behdad, Ladan Mostofi, Mahnaz Afshar, Reza Attaran, Mehdi Faghih, Mohammad Reza Sharifinia, Elsa Firouz Azar, Tahmineh Milani, Mastaneh Mohajer, Alireza Zarrindast, Mohammad Nikbin, Eshagh Khanzadi, Naser Cheshmazar, Bahareh Afshari, Jalal Moayerian, Siavash Tahmoures, Keyvan Moghaddam, Abdollah Abdi Nasab, Hossein Dadashpour.
Other films are:
The Deportees, Chocolatie, Don't Be Shy, Checkmate, The Deportees 2, Shameless, Gohar Kheirandish a Filmography, The Refugee, Mr. Shadi's Mission, Rings of Marriage, Centipede, The Lightning, Hangover Time, The Red Tails, Bibi Khatoon, Pocket Full of Money, The Black Pearl, Centipede 2, Apachi, Azhdar, September 24th, Residential Camp, Ashoob, Gordale & Auntie Ghoul, Mahboobeh, A Controversial Birthday, Goat Slaughter, A Simple Event, A Woman from the Back Alley, Under One Roof, Belief in Tranquility
