Bahar Pars () is an Iranian-Swedish actress and filmmaker. She has performed on stage and screen, and is best known for her supporting role in the 2015 film A Man Called Ove.
Bahar Pars was born in Shiraz, Iran, and moved to Trelleborg, Sweden, in 1989 with her family after the war between Iran and Iraq.
Between 2003 and 2007 she studied to become an actress at Teaterhögskolan in Stockholm (now Stockholms dramatiska högskola).
Pars has had several roles in plays and also several films. She made her film debut in the 2006 film När mörkret faller. In 2008 she performed the role of Nina in Farnaz Arbabi's MÃÂ¥sen at Backateatern. At Uppsala City Theatre, Pars played the title roles in the plays Anna Karenina in 2010, the stage version of LÃÂ¥t den rätta komma in 2011, and Hedda Gabler in 2013, the latter directed by Farnaz Arbabi.
In 2014, Pars acted in the Jonas Hassen Khemiris play Jag ringer mina bröder as the character Valerie, directed by Farnaz Arbabi at The House of Culture (Stockholm). In November the same year she performed the monologue play PÃÂ¥ alla fyra at Kilenscenen at Kulturhuset Stadsteatern.
She had the leading role as Bertha in the play Marodörer, written and directed by Jens Ohlin at the Royal Dramatic Theatre in 2015.
Pars a co-creator of NyÃÂ¥rsklockan, in which 15 female celebrities appear.
In 2015, she was awarded the Medea Award, with the citation "In her own personal way Bahar Pars widens the ways to play classical female roles and bring them into our present time".
In the 2016 Guldbaggen awards she was nominated in the Best Supporting Actress category for her role as Parvaneh in the 2015 film A Man Called Ove.