neagheen
actor
podcast host
university founder
Neagheen Homaifar is an Iranian-American actor, podcast host, and founding member of a university. She graduated with honors from Harvard where she studied Social Studies and Spanish.
Some of Neagheen’s television credits include NBC/Peacock, FOX, and Apple Studios. She recently starred in “Before Dawn, Kabul Time,” a short film executive produced by Lena Waithe premiering at Tribeca Festival and qualifying as a For Your Consideration film at the 95th Academy Awards for Best Live Action Short.
Neagheen made her theatre debut at Signature Theatre in 2023 in the production of “Selling Kabul,” a Pulitzer Prize finalist.
Neagheen was also the co-host of an award-winning weekly comedy podcast, "Best Friends Back, Alright!” with Mythical Entertainment.
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What People Are Saying
“Neagheen Homaifar embodies the varying levels of loss that come from living in a society forced to turn on one another - the evolution of her character as the situation spirals is entrancing and heartrending, and Homaifar deftly carries the difficulties of the role with an earnest and believable ease.”
— Broadway World
“Neagheen Homaifar as Leyla must by turns show herself to be the upbeat, loyal friend while pursuing a dangerous mission to protect her family. It’s as if Homaifar walked in off the street, a blithering socially clueless chatterbox taking up her friend’s (and the audience’s) time — until she reveals being both the toughest and most desperate.”
— DC Theatre Arts