Princess Soraya(1932-2001)
Soraya Esfandiary, second wife of Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, acted in
one film: an Italian film cut in three parts directed by Michelangelo
Antonioni called The Three Faces (1965) ("Three Faces of a Woman"). This
was shot a few years after Soraya (who couldn't have children) and
the Shah had divorced. Despite a promising debut, she did not pursue
an acting career. She wrote her memoirs published in French under the
title "Le Palais des solitudes" in the 1990 which included a reprint of her
first biography and a recent novel, "Princesse d'argile". Ever since her
divorce, Soraya has essentially mingled in the circles of the European Gotha.
