Sahba Keihani

Known for Acting

Biography

Sahba Keihani was born and raised in Tehran-Iran. Daughter to a lawyer father and her late professor mother, she has three younger brothers. Sahba found the love for acting at the age of five. At 16, she was acting, producing and writing for the children's theater at 'Tehran Cultural Center for Children'. In the same year she won the the second place of acting in a national theater competition. After graduating from high school, she decided to leave Iran for Europe to pursue her dream of becoming a free international artist. In 2012, in Belgium, Sahba directed and acted in the short film 'Shadow of the Stone', the story of which, condemns stoning to death of women in Islamic laws. The film won an award in WVN Film Festival in Los Angeles in 2014. In the same year, she moved to the US and was introduced to the work of Lee Strasberg. After completing the two year conservatory program at The Lee Strasberg Theatre & Film Institute, Sahba wrote and directed 'Station Mythah', which she believes was an opportunity to create an image of a part of her curiosity on the idea of multiverse. During her residence in Europe Sahba studied Commercial Sciences at ICHEC Brussels Management School. She is fluent in French and German, as well as English.