Azar Fakhr (24 December 1940 - 29 March 2023) was an Iranian theater, cinema and television actress whose artistic career dates back to the 1960s and 1970s.

A theater graduate from the Faculty of Fine Arts of Tehran University, she acted in plays such as "Meeting with an Old Lady" written by Friedrich Dürrenmatt. She also appeared in the tv theaters "Iranian heritage", "Blue Window", "Mr. Gil's Magnificent Smile", and "Decline", all written by Akbar Raadi.

During her magnificent career, Fakhr acted in the works of famous artists such as Ali Nasirian, Hamid Samandarian and Abbas Javanmard.

Azar Fakhr started her cinematic career in 1970 with "Rape", a film written by Behzad Farahani and directed by Hamid Mesdaghi. Dying a Thousand Times (Jalal Mehraban), The Second Earthquake (Afshin Sherkat), An Aristocrat Beggar (Azizollah Bahadori) and Quarantine (Masoud Asadollahi) are among other films in which she had an appearance.

In 2017, Iranian Theater Forum honored her in its 14th festival. Fakhr's presence on television in the sixties is also significant. In those years, she played in "Divorce", a tv series directed by Masoud Asadollahi, "Old Legends" by Marva Nabili, Malek Jahan Khazaei and Barbad Taheri.

After the 1979 revolution, at the age of thirty-eight and at the height of her artistic career, Azar Fakhr left Iran for America and settled in the suburbs of San Francisco with Kamran Nozad, her husband and a famous Iranian actor. Nozad died in 2022 at the age of 86 in California, America.

Works

Cinema

     Tajavoz | Rape (1970)
     Dying a Thousand Times (1977)
     The Second Earthquake (1977)
     Gedaye Ashrafzadeh | Noble Beggar (1978)
     Quarantine (1982)

TV series

     Divorce (1356) dead end episode and divorce and loneliness episode
     Iranian Heritage (Teletheater; 1977)
     Blue Window (Teletheater)
     Ancient Iranian Legends (1977-78)