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.