Hollywood star Michael Sheen and comedian Shaparak Khorsandi have backed our winter appeal with Comic Relief to support refugees and the homeless, hailing the “courage, resilience and strength” of those “forced to flee” their homes and reminding us of the harsh winter months they face “without the necessities we take for granted”.
Khorsandi was born in Iran and came to London with her parents initially for a year or two but ended up staying because it was too dangerous for her father, a poet, to return after the Islamic Revolution. It followed a joke he composed that was seen as critical of the regime.
