Returned to acting in the mid-'80s in a Farsi-language play and met the man who would become her second husband, actor and playwright Houshang Touzie, a fellow Iranian expatriate
With Touzie, opened Drama Workshop '79, a Los Angeles-based theater company devoted to producing works in Farsi
A 25-year ban on her name in the Iranian media was lifted after her Oscar nomination for House of Sand and Fog (2003)
Voiced a character in the video game Mass Effect 2 (2010).
