Bahar Soomekh (Persian: بهار سومخ born March 30, 1975) is an Iranian-American Screen Actors Guild Award-winning actress and environmental activist. She began acting in the early 2000s, and is perhaps best known for her film roles in the films Crash (2004), Mission: Impossible III (2006), and Saw III (2006).
Soomekh was born in Tehran, Iran, to a devout Persian Jewish family. "Soomekh" is a common surname among the Iranian Jewish community and her...
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Bahar Soomekh (Persian: بهار سومخ born March 30, 1975) is an Iranian-American Screen Actors Guild Award-winning actress and environmental activist. She began acting in the early 2000s, and is perhaps best known for her film roles in the films Crash (2004), Mission: Impossible III (2006), and Saw III (2006).
Soomekh was born in Tehran, Iran, to a devout Persian Jewish family. "Soomekh" is a common surname among the Iranian Jewish community and her name, "Bahar", means "spring" in Persian. Soomekh's mother was from Tehran, and her father was from Hamadan. She moved with her parents and sister, Saba Soomekh, to Los Angeles, United States in 1979, to escape the Islamic Revolution of Iran. Bahar speaks fluent English, Persian, Spanish, and some Hebrew. She attended Sinai Akiba Academy, a Yeshiva, and Beverly Hills High School, where she played the violin in the school orchestra. She had played the violin for 13 years. Bahar got her degree in environmental studies at the University of...
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