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Iranian Zar Amir Ebrahimi wins best actress at Cannes

Iranian actress Zar Amir Ebrahimi poses with her award after she won the Best Actress Prize at the Cannes Film Festival on Saturday [Patricia De Melo Moreira/AFP]

Iranian Zar Amir Ebrahimi, who lives in exile following a smear campaign about her love life, wept with joy as she won the Best Actress Award at the Cannes Film Festival.

Ebrahimi, 41, won for Holy Spider, in which she plays a journalist trying to solve the serial murders of prostitutes in Iran’s holy city of Mashhad.

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