Mozhan Marnò

Mozhan Marnò
Born	May 3, 1980 Los Angeles, California
Residence	Brooklyn, New York
Alma mater	Columbia University (BA) Yale University (MFA)
Occupation	Actress, writer, director
Height	5 ft 9.5 in (177 cm)
Website	mozhan-marno.com

Mozhan Marnò (born May 3, 1980) is an American film and television actress of Persian descent.

Personal life

Marnò was born in Los Angeles. She was educated at Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts. She received her BA in French and German comparative literature from Barnard College of Columbia University and her MFA in Acting from the Yale School of Drama. She currently resides in Brooklyn, New York.

Career

Marnò played the title role in the 2008 film The Stoning of Soraya M., about a woman whose husband falsely accuses her of adultery, resulting in her death by stoning.

In addition she has had roles in a number of television series including The Paul Reiser Show, The Glades, Hung, The Mentalist, Bones, The Unit, Medium, K-ville, and Standoff. Marnò also appeared in the Untitled John Wells Medical Drama Pilot, which was not aired. She also stars in Ana Lily Amirpour's directorial debut, A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night, produced by Elijah Wood, under his company, The Woodshed.

Marnò also directs and writes screenplays. Her first feature-length screenplay, When the Lights Went Out, was a quarter finalist for the Nicholl Fellowship, a finalist at the Nantucket Screenwriter's Colony, Sundance Screenwriter's Lab, and won third prize at the Cinequest Film Festival Screenwriting Competition. She has adapted When the Lights Went Out as a play and it received its first production at New York Stage & Film in July 2013 starring Laura Innes from ER.

Marnò's short film, Incoming, which she wrote and directed, was accepted to the Noor Iranian Film Festival, LA SHORTS FEST, the Asians on Film Festival, and the DC Asian Pacific American Film Festival.

She can be seen as reporter Ayla Sayyad on seasons two and three of the acclaimed Netflix series House of Cards, and as Mossad agent and assassin Samar Navabi, in seasons 2 and 3 of The Blacklist.

In 2011, Marnò voiced Mirabelle Ervine, a Breton mage and Master Wizard of the College of Winterhold, in the critically acclaimed video game The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim.

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2007	Charlie Wilson's War	Refugee Camp Translator #2
2008	August	Ashley
2008	Traitor	Leyla
2008	The Stoning of Soraya M.	Soraya M.	Nominated—Satellite Award for Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture
2009	StereoLife	Gwendolyn Leeds	Short film
2010	Gimme Shelter	Abby	Television film
2010	Apples	Lucky	Short film
2014	A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night	Atti

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2006	The Unit	Protocol Chief	Episode: "Security"
2006	Standoff	Agnacia	Episode: "Life Support"
2007	Shark	Maria Lutrova	Episode: "Gangster Movies"
2007	K-Ville	Jodi Mazetta	Episode: "Ride Along"
2009	Bones	Azita Jabbari	Episode: "A Night at the Bones Museum"
2009	Medium	Rachel	Episode: "The Devil Inside, Part 2"
2009–2011	The Mentalist	Nicki Weymouth	2 episodes
2010	The Glades	Renee LeFleur	Episode: "Cassadaga"
2010	Hung	Samara	Episode: "The Middle East is Complicated"
2011	The Paul Reiser Show	Zeba	2 episodes
2012	In Plain Sight	Charlotte	Episode: "Sacrificial Lamb"
2012	Ringer	Marguerite	Episode: "P.S. You're an Idiot"
2014–2015	House of Cards	Ayla Sayyad	11 episodes Nominated—Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series
2014	Madam Secretary	Roxanne Majidi	Episode: "Pilot"
2014–present	The Blacklist	Samar Navabi	50 episodes

Awards and nominations

Year	Association	Category	Nominated work	Result
2009	Satellite Awards	Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture	The Stoning of Soraya M.	Nominated
2015	Screen Actors Guild Awards	Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series	House of Cards	Nominated

External links

• Mozhan Marnò at the Internet Movie Database
• Official website