Pooya Mohseni

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Known Credits

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Gender

Female

Birthday

01-Jan-1978

Age

(48 years old)

Place of Birth

Teheran, Iran

Also Known As
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Pooya Mohseni

Biography

Pooya Mohseni is an Iranian American actress, writer, filmmaker and Trans activist, born and raised in Tehran, Iran. She moved to New York in her teens, where she discovered her love of acting and story telling. She has guest starred on Primetime shows, like Law and Order : SVU , Falling Water and Madam Secretary and Big Dogs on Amazon Prime. She is the first middle eastern trans actor to play the role of judge on a prime time procedural. Her latest starring role in a feature is the lead role of Mari Walker's "See You Then", coming out in 2021. She is a graduate from the esteemed Maggie Flanigan Studio, and continues to build her resume of a wide range of characters, while exploring their humanity and fragility. She is fluent in Persian/Farsi and a transgender advocate, as well as a voice for immigrant and women's issues. She is also involved in writing and consulting on original LGBT stories to shed light on an otherwise under represented community.


Credits

Day 39 Day 39 (2015) Character: Zarmina
An inexperienced young soldier on his first deployment and a seasoned Ranger medic fight to save a young mother and her unborn child on the Afghan battlefield.
Luz Marina Luz Marina (2019) Character: Santana
A reality show star leaves her family's TV show fame and unknowingly joins a supernatural cult.
Stray Stray (2020) Character: Barrow
A virus eliminates all males. When a woman discovers something impossible, she risks the whole world's destruction to protect it.
Class A Class A (2019) Character: N/A
A short film that follows three LGBTQ, addicts, who battle their chosen drug personified in the flesh.
Deathless Deathless (2024) Character: Sara
A self-destructive porn star navigates immortality 10 years after people have mysteriously stopped dying.
Always Azizam Always Azizam (2025) Character: N/A
Mahsa, a transgender Iranian woman, agrees to meet her partner's family, hoping for their blessing and acceptance against all odds.
English English (2025) Character: Roya
The comedy unfolds in an Iranian classroom where adult English learners practice for their proficiency exam. As they leapfrog through a linguistic playground, their wildly different dreams, frustrations, and secrets come to light. Can they overcome the limits of language to discover what they really want to say.
Transit: A New York City Fairytale Transit: A New York City Fairytale (2022) Character: Kiran
A young man falls for a captivating woman and they embark on a passionate journey together - until, months into their relationship, she reveals that she is transgender.
The Arrival The Arrival (2023) Character: Jayce Fisher
Four strangers converge at a restaurant to investigate the son of the enigmatic DuPont family.
Beti Beti (2025) Character: Satna
The journey of Neha as she comes to terms with accepting a great loss & the grief that follows.
Veronica Veronica (2018) Character: Sarah
Veronica's seemingly perfect life is thrown in to chaos when she realizes that in order to be her most authentic self, she must become someone else...literally.
Brutal Colors Brutal Colors (2015) Character: Mysterious
Horror movie is a macabre story that tells us about a plastic artist named Brie who searches and tries to develop her mind inside her beautiful house. It keeps the darkest secrets and mysteries where beings from the beyond order her to commit crimes and something demonic is behind this?
After the Date After the Date (2017) Character: Emma
A short film about an unexpected romance between an aspiring photographer, Emma, and a charming stranger, Nate. The film shares the passion between a trans woman and her boyfriend. Emma recently relocated to Philadelphia in a bid to start her life anew. She meets Nate, while he struggles to overcome hurt from the past. The outside world tests their relationship, and Emma must make a stand in the face of oppression.
Chateau Sauvignon: terroir Chateau Sauvignon: terroir (2015) Character: Eartha
Chateau Sauvignon:terroir follows Nicolas, the isolated adolescent son of a ruined vintner family, who finds himself torn between obeying his boorish father and saving his ailing mother. When a doting woman and her indifferent son arrive for a wine tasting, Nicolas sees an opportunity to help his mother and prove his worth to his father. However, his wayward plan quickly takes a turn for the worse, putting his family’s secretive murderous ways in peril of being unearthed.
Let Me Go (The Right Way) Let Me Go (The Right Way) (2022) Character: Lady in Purple
A psychiatrist treats a young veteran whose sense of reality is fraying.
Bloody Slumber Party Bloody Slumber Party (2014) Character: Daisy
After Kelly broke up with Rick, her abusive boyfriend, her friends had a slumber party to cheer her up. As they are telling horror stories, there is a killer in the house coming for them.
Troy Troy (2022) Character: Jo
Troy has loud sex, 24/7. Troy shares a wall with Thea and Charlie. Troy is ruining their lives... or is he saving them? Troy is a darkly comedic tale about the unexpected consequences of unasked-for intimacy.
Human Theories Human Theories (2026) Character: N/A
Through forty interconnected vignettes, Human Theories is a comedic kaleidoscope exploring how people try, and often fail, to connect with one another in this weird world. Filmed over a year on location in New York City with a diverse ensemble cast of over 50 actors and non-actors, the film is an experimental love letter to the awkward struggle of modern city living.
Subways Subways (2014) Character: Stephanie
With a cast of over 100 and music by some of LGBT hip hop's most luminary indies, SUBWAYS: A REQUIEM IN FIVE STAGES chronicles a young gay man's journey through depression as he deals with tragic twists and taboo love.
Nightmare Radio: The Night Stalker Nightmare Radio: The Night Stalker (2023) Character: Eartha
A late-night radio DJ with a program where people call to tell her real horror stories, soon will find out how far an obsessed fan is willing to go.
See You Then See You Then (2022) Character: Kris Ahadi
A decade after abruptly breaking up with Naomi, Kris invites her to a dinner to catch-up on their complicated lives, relationships, and Kris' transition.
Theresa & Allison Theresa & Allison (2019) Character: The Mysterious Woman
After a one night stand turns disastrous, Theresa finds herself drawn into a world of inhuman savagery, all the while tempted by the beautiful and immortal Allison.
Thorp Thorp (2020) Character: Frannie
After fleeing Earth in the late 80s, an alien returns to his childhood home in search of his best friend. As he gets closer to finding her, his mysterious past gets closer to catching him.
Lapsis Lapsis (2021) Character: Noori Capahardi
In a parallel present, delivery man Ray Tincelli is struggling to support himself and his ailing younger brother. After a series of two-bit hustles and unsuccessful swindles, Ray takes a job in a strange new realm of the gig economy: trekking deep into the forest, pulling cable over miles of terrain to connect large, metal cubes that link together the new quantum trading market. As he gets pulled deeper into the zone, he encounters growing hostility and the threat of robot cablers, and must choose to either help his fellow workers or to get rich and get out.
Bound Bound (2025) Character: Yeva
To escape her overprotective drug-dealing stepfather, an introvert flees to NYC with her pet flying squirrel. After successfully reinventing herself through the help of some "found family," she realizes she must return home and confront her dark past, to truly be free.
Heather Heather (2024) Character: Heather
A womanizer is lured into a kinky encounter by a provocative woman, only to discover that she was once a victim that he terrorized in high school.
Terrifier Terrifier (2018) Character: Cat Lady
A maniacal clown named Art terrorizes three young women on Halloween night and everyone else who stands in his way.
When Death Calls When Death Calls (2012) Character: Lorraine Castro
Disc jockey Roxy Richards encourages her listeners to call in and share scary stories during a live broadcast on Halloween night: A psycho stalks an elementary school teacher, an adulterous one night stand goes horrifically awry, a young couple who decide to stay in find themselves in great danger, an engaged woman gets terrorized by a predatory monster that lives in the basement of her boyfriend's home, and a murdered housewife returns from the dead to torment her unfaithful husband. Meanwhile, Roxy receives an unsettling call from a mysterious person.
Remote Remote (2022) Character: Ramesh
Finding new cinematic language to express the desire for physical contact in our increasingly isolated, mediated, and highly consumer-driven environments, Remote follows the daily routines of a quarantined woman in her sealed-off, ultra-modern apartment, where she falls down a rabbit hole playing an inexplicable interactive game with a community of women from around the world.



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