A lovely young actress who was discovered by director Sadiq Barmak. At the time she was 13, working the Afghani streets of Kabul as a beggar to help feed the family. The director hired her to play the nameless girl turned boy "Osama" in the film Osama . She used her earnings to shelter her parents. Noticable for her beautiful smile, she is generally a shy, modest girl known for her giggles and blushes.
She studies at a school run by Aschiana, an Afghan relief agency for children.
She has used the money she made from Osama to buy her parents a four-bedroom, mud home in a poor part of Kabul.
Discovered wandering through the ruined capital, a child begging for food.
Her father owned a music shop which was destroyed by the Taliban.
She is an ethnic Tajik.
She is continuing to pursue acting as a career, appearing in four more films in the year after the release of "Osama."
The only film she had seen before starring in "Osama" was a pirated video tape of "Titanic."
She earned $14 for her role in "Osama," and later received a $4,000 prize from an international film festival in Seoul, South Korea.
I want to be an actress all my life. I want to grow as an actress. One,day, I even want to direct my own film. .
