Nazanin Boniadi

Nazanin Boniadi is a British actress and activist. Born in Tehran and raised in London, she went to university in the United States, where she landed her first major acting role as Leyla Mir in the medical drama General Hospital (2007–2009) and its spin-off General Hospital: Night Shift (2007). Since then, Boniadi has played Nora in the sitcom How I Met Your Mother (2011), Fara Sherazi in the spy thriller series Homeland (2013–2014), Esther in the historical drama film Ben-Hur (2016), Clare Quayle in the sci-fi thriller series Counterpart (2017–2018), Zahra Kashani in the action thriller film Hotel Mumbai (2018), and Bronwyn in the fantasy series The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power (2022–present).

22 May 1979

Born on the same birth date (22 May 1979): Maggie Q • Tihomir Dovramadjiev

Born on the same birth day (22 May): Bob Katter • Catulle Mendès • Fritz von Uhde • Julius Klinger • Laurence Olivier • Lucie Brock-Broido • Margaret Mee • Menzies Campbell • Michael Green (physicist) • Paul Vanden Boeynants • Sean Gunn

Born in the same month (May 1979): Abdulaziz al-Omari • Adolfo Bautista • Amanda Bauer • Andrea Pirlo • Arne Friedrich • Caroline Ouellette • Chris Masoe • Chris Young (pitcher) • Francis Lessard • Jean-François Gillet • Jens Bergensten • Jon Montgomery • Julián Speroni • Mariusz Lewandowski • Mauro Bergamasco • Mehmet Okur • Mile Sterjovski • Prince Carl Philip, Duke of Värmland • Rosario Dawson • Sayed Moawad • Scott Smith (fighter)