The all-round talent screened her fiction feature debut as a director at the Luxembourg City Film Festival: "I have Trine Dyrholm and Tim Roth in my first movie. I pinch myself." By Georg Szalai ...

Julie and Désirée Clary are courted by the brothers Joseph and Napoleon Bonaparte. Joseph marries Julie and Napoleon is affianced to Désirée. When Napoleon breaks the engagement and marries Joséphine ...

Forget the World Cup. Forget Harry and Meghan's bash. Forget the insane extremes in weather that will ultimately probably kill us all. Twenty-eighteen is all about Desiree Akhavan. Earlier this year, ...

Akhavan wrote this specific role for herself, after co-starring and co-directing in a web series, and that for this project, “it felt like the right time and the right story. I always knew I wanted to ...

She’s a bisexual, an Iranian-American, a second generation immigrant, a multi-hyphenate (actor-writer-director), a New Yorker with a line in neurotic anal-gazing worthy of Woody Allen, and she’s ...

DESIREE Akhavan has always lived life on the outside. Growing up in Brooklyn, she's the child of Iranian immigrants and identifies as a bisexual woman. Having wanted to work in the world of theatre in ...

In the spirit of Sundance, which kicked off this week in Park City, Paste had a chance to chat with one of the breakout stars of last year. Director, writer and leading lady Desiree Akhavan premiered ...

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