Taslimi was born in 1950 in Rasht, the provincial capital of Iran’s northern Gilan province. Her father Khosro Taslimi was a movie producer and her mother Monireh Akhundnia was a highly popular film and theater actress. In 1955 her mother won an Iranian film festival award for best actress for her role in the movie “Bloody Moonlight,” but she died at the age of 29, before she could accept it. Taslimi, who was then less than six years old, went on stage to collect the award on behalf of her mother.
