The most successful Persian Actresses In Hollywood

 Bahar Soomekh was born on March 30, 1975 in Teh., to a Persian Jewish family. She is the daughter of Manijeh and Hamid Soomekh, who owned a women’s high fashion company. She has a sister, Saba Soomekh. The family moved to Los Angeles in 1979, to escape the Iranian revolution. She attended a yeshiva, Sinai Akiba Academy, and Beverly Hills High School, where she played the violin in the school orchestra. She majored in environmental studies at the University of California at Santa Barbara. Soomekh began working at a corporate job, and took acting classes at night, before quitting her job to pursue a full-time acting career.Where you probably recognize her from: Saw III and Mission Impossible III
Interesting fact: Was one of People magazine’s 100 Most beautiful people in the world in 2006