Azita Ghanizada (Actor)

Reviews of Azita Ghanizada Movies

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Movies starring Azita Ghanizada have generally received mixed reviews and hold an average score of 56%.

Our Friend - released in 2019 - is Azita Ghanizada's highest rated movie, with a score of 67% based on 25 reviews.

The lowest rated film from Azita Ghanizada is Complete Unknown - released in 2016 - with a score of 49% based on 84 reviews.

Actor Biography

Azita Ghanizada is an Afghan American actress in the United States who has appeared in a number of television series. She was born in Kabul, Afghanistan, her family fled her native country to the US and were granted asylum to remain. She was raised in Northern Virginia and is the middle child of two sisters.

Ghanizada began her on-air camera career being featured in several National Commercials. In the Laura Neri film A Kiss on the Nose (2004), Ghanizada played the lead role of Chiara, a performance for which she received a film festival best actress nomination. Her television guest-starring roles include How I Met Your Mother, Entourage, Veronica Mars, The Wedding Bells, NUMB3RS, Bones, Psych and Castle. She most recently had a supporting role in the science fiction action film Blood Shot (2009), and the independent comedies, "You, Only Better" (2009).

In 2008, Ghanizada joined the cast of the General Hospital prime-time spin-off General Hospital: Night Shift for season 2 as Dr. Saira Batra, a specialist in holistic medicine. In 2009, Ghanizada played Kelly, a Prada sales girl on HBO's Entourage (season 6, episode 2) and joined the cast of the television pilot Tough Trade from Weeds creator Jenji Kohan, and executive producer T Bone Burnett.

Azita Ghanizada has acted in films with Dakota Johnson, Rachel Weisz, Aya Cash and Kathy Bates.

Azita Ghanizada has worked with these film directors: Joshua Marston, Gabriela Cowperthwaite and Jeff Rosenberg.