Born in Tehran, Iran [1992] Nahal Dashti is an actor and director. She is a graduate of Film Direction from "Sooreh" Art University of Tehran. After entering the university in 2010, she also started acting professionally by means of theatre and also appeared in a number of short films, series and movies, but made her breakthrough by appearing in the home-video network series "Shahrzad" in 2015. She has appeared in the movies "Moorianeh" and "Hideaway", theaters "Hamletmachine", "Parastare Zaman", "The Kitchen", "Lolita", etc. Her most recent short film "Maple No.12", is also directed, written and produced by herself independently; this is the second short film she has made, the first being "Senses".Besides her university studies, she'd also participated in various movie-making and acting open courses and is also experienced in photography and short animations.