Niki Karimi attending at International Crime and Punishment Film Festival in Istanbul
Niki Karimi (born November 10, 1971) is an actress, director, and screenwriter. She’s one of the most well known and successful Iranian artists. Expanding on her career as an actor, she wrote and directed the documentary To Have or Not to Have (2001). In 2001, she won her first award as a director in Rain film festival for her work To Have or Not to Have, which was produced by renowned Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami. Nominated at the 2005 Cannes Film Festival for her feature film directorial debut One Night (2005), she said that acting no longer satisfied her and she would like to direct more movies.
