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Bahar Soomekh

Highest Rated: 29% Saw III (2006)

Lowest Rated: 13% Just Like a Woman (2012)

Birthday: Mar 30, 1975

Birthplace: Tehran, Iran

Actress Bahar Soomekh. She was born in Tehran and moved to Los Angeles with her family in 1979, to escape the Iranian revolution. After graduating from U.C. Santa Barbara with an environmental studies degree, Soomekh had a corporate job for a few years, but studied acting feverishly until she could quit her job, and devote herself to her passion full-time. Her first parts came on television at the age of 27, on such crime dramas as "Without a Trace," and on two episodes of "JAG." She had her first big film role in the 2004 Academy Award-winning melodrama "Crash," as Dorri, a Persian daughter who provides a bridge from her father's native culture to their adopted one in the United States In 2006, Soomekh had another noticeable role in a big Hollywood film, as the translator to Philip Seymour Hoffman's Owen Davian, the dangerous weapons dealer and villain in the action-thriller "Mission: Impossible III." That same year, Soomekh landed a main character role in the third movie of the hugely successful "Saw" horror franchise, "Saw III," as Lynn Denlon, a doctor who is kidnapped and forced to deal with the evil will of Jigsaw, a.k.a. John, Mr. Saw himself. Soomekh would reprise the part in 2007, in "Saw IV." Nor forgeting her degree, Soomekh works for both Green Cross and the Rainforest Action Network (RAN), and started her own production company to make environemntal films.

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Highest rated movies

29% 71% Saw III
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13% 33% Just Like a Woman
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A Lousy 10 Grand
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Filmography

Movies

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13% 33% Just Like a Woman Soha (Character) - 2012
29% 71% Saw III Lynn (Character) $80.2M 2006
No Score Yet No Score Yet A Lousy 10 Grand Najah (Character) - 2004

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No Score Yet 81% CSI: Crime Scene Investigation Unknown (Guest Star) 2011
82% 87% Castle Unknown (Guest Star) 2011
0% 86% Miami Medical Unknown (Guest Star) 2010
No Score Yet 87% Ghost Whisperer Unknown (Guest Star) 2008
50% 100% Day Break Unknown (Guest Star) 2006
85% 77% The Unit Unknown (Guest Star) 2006
40% No Score Yet In Justice Unknown (Guest Star) 2006
90% 83% Bones Sahar Masruk (Guest Star) 2005
No Score Yet No Score Yet JAG Unknown (Guest Star) 2002 2004
No Score Yet 75% Without a Trace Unknown (Guest Star) 2002