Shohreh Aghdashloo On Breaking Stereotypes For Middle Eastern Actors: “We Are Now The Newcomers”

Despite the rhetoric coming out of this year’s political campaigns, Middle Eastern actors are breaking through the stereotypes they have long experienced and are being cast in more substantial roles. Perhaps no one has endured/experienced this more over the years than Shohreh Aghdashloo, who has seen great actors who just happen to be Middle Eastern break out of the “terrorist” roles that they had long only been offered to find real work in primetime and features. Before being nominated for an Oscar in for 2003 for her brilliant turn in House Of Sand And Fog, she too was offered only terrorist roles. Read More…