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- Ana Bayat is the award-winning playwright, creator and actor of the critically-acclaimed multilingual show "Mimi's Suitcase" (recipient of the Neda Nobari Foundation Grant in Innovative Arts and nominated for a Freedom of Expression Amnesty International Award at 70th Edinburgh Festival Fringe) with over three decades of experience in theatre, film, voiceover and language/dialect coaching worldwide.
Following in her father's footsteps, Ana trained in the Stanislavski system by studying with direct students of the master himself before embarking for England where she completed further studies in acting, stagecraft, language, literature, linguistics, translation and film. Thanks to her multicultural upbringing, Ana is fluent in Spanish, UK and US English, French, Persian, and proficient in German, Italian and Catalan. An accomplished multilingual linguist with a unique, interactive and creative style of dialect coaching, Ana actively coaches A-list actors to find their character's voices when approaching new accents and languages. Her latest collaboration resulted in Glenn Close speaking a seamless Persian in the series Tehran, season 2, on Apple TV+.- IMDb Mini Biography By: JR King - Anahita Ghazi Bayat (aka Ana Bayat) is an international multilingual actress based in California, USA. Encouraged by her actor father, Nader Bayat, Ana started studying acting and working professionally on stage and camera since the mid 1980s, establishing herself as a strong on-camera presence in Iranian cinema prior to embarking for England where she underwent a second rigorous conservatory training at Birmingham School of Speech and Dramatic Arts.
Ana holds a B.A. Honors in Linguistics and an M.A. in Film and, when not acting, dedicates her time to voice over work and language consulting.
In addition to UK and US English, Ana is fluent in Persian, Spanish and French and can get by in German, Italian and Catalan.- IMDb Mini Biography By: Representative - Ana Bayat is the creator of the critically-acclaimed multilingual show Mimi's Suitcase (nominated for an International Amnesty Freedom of Expression Award, named "a hidden gem" at 70th Edinburgh Festival Fringe and recipient of the Neda Nobari Foundation grant in Innovative Arts).
Following in her father's footsteps, Ana trained in the Stanislavski system by studying with descendants of the master's direct students before embarking for England where she attended conservatory training at Birmingham School of Speech and Dramatic Arts and pursued higher education degrees in Language and Linguistics and Film.
Alongside her career in theatre, film and voiceover, Ana is an accomplished dialect coach with over 30 years of experience teaching languages worldwide. She is also a lecturer at Saint Mary's College of California and consults on a variety of projects including language and accent coaching, translation and subtitling as well as teaching acting and voiceover workshops.- IMDb Mini Biography By: JR King
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