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‘It’s Just a Matter of Time’

IRANIAN-AMERICAN ACTRESS Shohreh Aghdashloo may be most recognizable by her deep, easily identifiable voice as heard in projects such as The Flight Attendant, The Punisher, House of Sand and Fog (an Oscar-nominated performance) and HBO’s House of Saddam (for which she won an Emmy). The actress, who was born in Tehran, fled to England before the Iranian Revolution in 1979, when she was 25.

Aghdashloo recently talked to about the tumult in her home country after the September 13 killing of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini by the morality police for failing to properly wear a hijab. Iranian authorities said that the

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