Lara Wolf

Lara Dalileh Wolf is an Iranian actress and singer born in Tehran and raised in Zurich. She is fluent in English, Farsi, and German and speaks some Italian and French. She holds an MSc in Psychology from the University of Zurich and is a graduate of the Lee Strasberg Theater & Film Institute in NYC. Lara is an original and current member of the Primitive Grace Theatre Ensemble, co-founded by David Zayas and Paul Calderon in NYC, where she has developed and work shopped her writing and continues honing her skills as an actress. Lara is best known for her role as the Judean Queen Berenice in the Peacock original series Those About To Die, starring Anthony Hopkins and directed by Roland Emmerich and Marco Kreuzpaintner. Before that, Lara guest starred as Princess Nour in ABC's Quantico. Lara also stars opposite Golshifteh Farahani in the film Reading Lolita In Tehran, based on the New York Times bestselling novel by Azar Nafisi and directed by Eran Riklis. Reading Lolita In Tehran won the Audience and Grand Jury Award at the Rome Film Festival. In the period film The Performance, directed by Shira Piven and starring Jeremy Piven and Robert Carlyle, Lara played a cabaret singer in Nazi-occupied Berlin. She was praised for her effortlessly transitioning between singing styles and languages. Lara thanks her multicultural upbringing between Tehran and Zurich for endowing her with a keen awareness of diversity, cultural similarities, and social injustices. She splits her time between the US and Europe.