Sonia Nassery Cole
Birthday: | Place of Birth: AfghanistanSonia Nassery Cole is an Afghan-born American filmmaker, author, and human rights activist. She fled Afghanistan as a teenager during the Soviet invasion and settled in the United States. At age seventeen, she wrote a letter to President Ronald Reagan, which led to a meeting at the White House. She later founded the Afghanistan World Foundation in 2002 to support women and children in Afghanistan. As a filmmaker, she directed “The Bread Winner,” “The Black Tulip,” and “I Am You.” Her film “The Black Tulip” was Afghanistan’s official submission to the Academy Awards. She lives in New York and Beverly Hills.
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Known For
Acting
Year
Title
Role
1997
Pterodactyl Woman from Beverly Hills
as Mystic Woman
1994
Art Deco Detective
as Irina Bordat
