Isabella Nefar

Isabella Nefar was an Iranian - British actress. Theatre credits include JUDE (Hampstead Theatre), Salomé (National Theatre); and Goats (Royal Court). Her film credits include Small City and Waiting for the Barbarians and television credits include Ransom, Aspirin, and Attori O Corsari.

Waiting for the Barbarians (2019)

At an isolated frontier outpost, a colonial magistrate suffers a crisis of conscience when an army colonel arrives looking to interrogate the locals about an impending uprising, using cruel tactics that horrify the magistrate.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Ciro Guerra
CAST:  Mark Rylance  •  Johnny Depp  •  Robert Pattinson  •  Gana Bayarsaikhan

At an isolated frontier outpost, a colonial magistrate suffers a crisis of conscience when an army colonel arrives looking to interrogate the locals about an impending uprising, using cruel tactics that horrify the magistrate.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Ciro Guerra
CAST:  Mark Rylance  •  Johnny Depp  •  Robert Pattinson  •  Gana Bayarsaikhan

National Theatre Live: Salomé (2017)

An occupied desert nation. A radical from the wilderness on hunger strike. A girl whose mysterious dance will change the course of the world. This charged retelling turns the infamous biblical tale on its head, placing the girl we call Salomé at the centre of a ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Yaël Farber
CAST:  Isabella Nefar  •  Raad Rawi  •  Lloyd Hutchinson  •  Olwen Fouéré

An occupied desert nation. A radical from the wilderness on hunger strike. A girl whose mysterious dance will change the course of the world. This charged retelling turns the infamous biblical tale on its head, placing the girl we call Salomé at the centre of a ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Yaël Farber
CAST:  Isabella Nefar  •  Raad Rawi  •  Lloyd Hutchinson  •  Olwen Fouéré

Profeti (2023)

PROPHETS is the story of an encounter and a confrontation between Sara, an independent Italian journalist who was kidnapped in Syria by ISIS while she was working on a war news report in 2015, and Nur, the young foreign fighter, wife to a soldier of the Caliphate ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Alessio Cremonini
CAST:  Jasmine Trinca  •  Isabella Nefar  •  Ziad Bakri  •  Omar El-Saeidi

PROPHETS is the story of an encounter and a confrontation between Sara, an independent Italian journalist who was kidnapped in Syria by ISIS while she was working on a war news report in 2015, and Nur, the young foreign fighter, wife to a soldier of the Caliphate ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Alessio Cremonini
CAST:  Jasmine Trinca  •  Isabella Nefar  •  Ziad Bakri  •  Omar El-Saeidi

Small City (2021)

A young street hustler from London and a drugs mule from Europe form an unlikely bond after a violent confrontation with a neighbourhood heavy.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Georgie Curran  •  Adriano Vilanova
CAST:  Eddie Thompson  •  Isabella Nefar  •  Yasen Atour  •  Mitchell Hunt

A young street hustler from London and a drugs mule from Europe form an unlikely bond after a violent confrontation with a neighbourhood heavy.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Georgie Curran  •  Adriano Vilanova
CAST:  Eddie Thompson  •  Isabella Nefar  •  Yasen Atour  •  Mitchell Hunt