Narges Rashidi is an award-winning American-German actress of Iranian descent who made waves with her standout role in HBO/Sky’s explosive hit ‘Gangs of London’. She plays Lale, a strong, determined and deeply principled Kurdish heroin trafficker who uses her drug profits to support the Kurdish resistance. She has starred in all 3 series, the most recent of which was released in 2025.
2025 also saw her with a role in the Netflix thriller film ‘Havoc’, directed by Gareth Evans, who also directed her in the first series of ‘Gangs of London'. She played Helena, the ex-wife of Tom Hardy’s character, Detective Walker.
She has recently been filming the leading role of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe in a major new BBC 4-part drama about the British-Iranian charity worker who was falsely accused of spying and detained in Iran for six years.
Narges shot to prominence for her leading role in the 2016 BAFTA winning psychological thriller film ‘Under the Shadow’, which won her a number of awards on the Independent Film Circuit, as well as Best Actress nominations from BIFA and the National Film Awards. The film, which is set in post-revolution, war-torn Tehran in the 1980s, saw her play Shideh, a mother who fights to protect her daughter from an evil spirit that haunts their home. The film was selected as the British entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 89th Academy Awards.
She has had parts in many German TV shows and films, including a major role in the long running German police crime drama series ‘Never Too Late for Justice’ and she played the lead in the award-winning mini-series ‘Glauben’ (‘The Accusation'). Additional English-speaking credits include the 2019 Emmy-nominated Prime Video thriller series ‘Hanna’ and the 2022 Netflix film ‘I Came By’ which starred Hugh Bonneville.
Narges speaks English with an American accent. Her native language is German and she is fluent in Farsi due to her Iranian heritage. She can speak English with an Iranian/Persian accent, English with a German accent and English with an Arabic accent. She is a gifted linguist and has used Turkish, Arabic and Kurdish in her screen roles. Kurdish for her role in Gangs of London.
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