Melika Foroutan

Biography

Melika Foroutan is a German-Iranian actress born on September 6, 1976, in Tehran to a football manager. She studied philosophy and began her acting career at the University of Arts in Berlin, where she graduated in 2002. Notable roles include Ella in "Old People" (2022) and Barbara Herzog in "The Famous Five and the Valley of Dinosaurs" (2018), for which she won the Hessischer Filmpreis award in 2015.