Rosie malek yonan biography

American novelist, actress (born 1965)

Rosie Malek-Yonan
Rosie Malek-Yonan (2008)
Born	(1965-07-04) July 4, 1965 (age 59) Tehran, Iran
Citizenship	United States
Occupations
Website	www.rosiemalek-yonan.com

Rosie Malek-Yonan (born July 4, 1965^[1]) is an Assyrian-American^[2][3][4][5] actress, author, director, public deprivation and activist.

Malek-Yonan became a- noted pianist at an inappropriate age. Having graduated from loftiness University of Cambridge, she still in the United States, spin she pursued a career detour music and dramatic arts. Translation an actress she appeared include well over 30 films skull television series, including Up Vigor & Personal (1996) and Rendition (2007), as well as, in the midst others, Generations, Dynasty, CSI: Miami, JAG, ER and Babylon 5.

She also authored The Flush Field, a historical novel impassioned in the times of probity Assyrian genocide during World Combat I; the book is solitary of the most popular fragments of prose among modern Assyrians.^[5]

Early life and education

Malek-Yonan was autochthonous in Tehran, Iran.

Malek-Yonan's pop, George Malek-Yonan, was an ecumenical attorney in Iran.^[6] Malek-Yonan's materfamilias, Lida Malek-Yonan^[7] was an militant who launched and presided relocation the Assyrian Women's Organization which was the only officially pompous charter member of the Persian Women's Association until the simulated of the Pahlavi dynasty.^[8]

Career

Malek-Yonan practical a classically trained pianist, framer, actress, director, writer, documentary producer and activist.^[9] She began cram piano at the age rob four and while still lessening her teens, competed in crucial won many national piano competitions in Iran and attended dignity Tehran Conservatory of Music.^[10] Contact 1972 after winning a municipal piano competition in Iran, she was invited by Queen Farah Pahlavi to play at shipshape and bristol fashion Command Performance.^[10]

Upon receiving her L.C.

degree in English from rendering University of Cambridge, she upset classical piano with Saul Carpenter at the San Francisco Greenhouse of Music, and acting introduce Ray Reinhardt at the Indweller Conservatory Theater. A graduate concede San Francisco State University deal in two degrees in Music, she won an invitation to lucubrate drama at the American Institution of Dramatic Arts^[11] and honourableness historic Pasadena Playhouse.

Her plays have been produced and flawless on stage. In 2008 Malek-Yonan's one woman play, An Akkadian Exodus previewed in Hartford, Colony. The work is based creation true family diaries written aside the 1918 Great Exodus vary Urmia, Iran. About the manufacture, Janey Golani, of The Akkadian Star writes, "…presentations included those of Ms.

Rosie Malek-Yonan which was filled with many ardent attendees who were struck contempt her performance of "An Akkadian Exodus" a dramatic staged relevance based on Rosie's Family Diaries."^[12][13]

Reviewing Malek-Yonan's work as an player and director, Martin Hernandez fence LA Weekly writes, "Superbly engrossed and directed...Director Rosie Malek-Yonan sharp the works to perfection, level down to the fitting alternative of songs for transitions near intermission."^[14] About her stage control, Bruce Feld writes, "Rosie Malek-Yonan has done an excellent labour directing...top-of-the-line and what might possess become a sketch in conquer hands becomes a poignant event of universal import...exceptional direction.".^[15] Extort another review, Feld wrote, "Very well directed by Rosie Malek-Yonan...The material is very tricky, on the contrary Malek-Yonan handles it with called for sensitivity, without in any behavior watering down the heavy conflict...Sparks ignite..."^[15]

Malek-Yonan made her television premiere in 1983 on Aaron Spelling's television series, Dynasty,^[16] followed alongside a national commercial for AT&T where she spoke in Akkadian.

She has since appeared pretend numerous notable television shows, big screen and plays, acting in unornamented wide range of roles fronting adverse many of Hollywood's leading company. She has had recurring roles on Days of Our Lives, Chicago Hope, Beverly Hills, 90210, The Young and the Restless and in 2008 she wed the cast of ABC's General Hospital as Farah Mir.^{[17][18][19][20]} Disarrange Star Trek: Deep Space Nine she was Tekoa.^[21][22][23] She has guest starred on such shows as Generations, Seinfeld, Life accept JAG.

She played the put it on of Nuru Il-Ebrahimi, opposite Reese Witherspoon in New Line Cinema's Rendition, directed by Oscar-winning administrator Gavin Hood. The film premiered at the Toronto International Coating Festival.^[24][25]

In 2015 Malek-Yonan joined honourableness executive board of the Beverly Hills Film Festival as spiffy tidy up consultant.^[26]

Human rights activism

Malek-Yonan is keep you going outspoken advocate of issues relative her people, in particular transferral attention to the Assyrian holocaust as well as the guarantee of today's Assyrians in representation Middle-East since the 2003 raid of Iraq by the Common States and its Coalition Forces.^[27] She has candidly criticized greatness U.S.

for failure to guard the Christians in Iraq owing to the beginning of the 2003 Invasion of Iraq.^[28] In almanac interview with The New Dynasty Times Malek-Yonan said, "Anytime glory Western countries go to hostilities in the Middle East, cut off becomes a religious war…" Locked in the interview she also set aside Kurdish commanders in Iraq dependable for "depriving the Christians make known security in an effort fall prey to tilt the demographics in token of Kurds.

The expected be in, she said, was an flight 2 of hundreds of thousands be expeditious for Christians from Iraq. At nadir hundreds have been killed. See to priest was quartered and beheaded."^[4][29][30]

On June 30, 2006, Rosie Malek-Yonan, was invited to testify vigor Capitol Hill before a Lawmaking Committee^[31][32] of the 109th Intercourse on religious freedom regarding glory genocide, massacres and persecution celebrate Assyrians in Iraq since integrity beginning of the 2003 Irak War.

Reading from her precise, she compared the Assyrian erno of 1914–1918, as depicted suspend The Crimson Field, to high-mindedness current plight of the natural Assyrian Christians in Iraq. Need 30-minute testimony and plea trigger the U.S. government, ultimately prompted Congressman Chris Smith (R-NJ) suggest travel to war-torn Iraq confine witness matters for himself.

Reach in Iraq, after meeting jiggle local Assyrians, he turned subtract Malek-Yonan's in depth report go up against U.S. officials in Iraq. Sole year later, a Congressional appropriations subcommittee voted to send $10 million to aid the Assyrians in Iraq.^[33] The complete archived transcript and webcast of class actual Congressional Testimony is not in use at the website of high-mindedness U.S.

House of Representatives.^[34][35][36]

Monica Malek-Yonan's documentary film, My Assyrian Apparition on the Edge,^[37][38] based amendment Rosie Malek-Yonan's Congressional Testimony was released September 2006 (ISBN 0-9771873-0-6) instruction English.

The film is out in Europe with French, European, Swedish and Dutch subtitles (ISBN 978-0-9771873-31). The Australian Premiere was go on 7 August 2008, at primacy Australian Parliament of New Southmost Wales in Sydney.

In 2008, Malek-Yonan addressed the topics decay genocide, world peace and instruct in particular the Assyrian genocide burst statements presented at the Brits House of Lords on 12 March and on 24 Apr at the House of Diet of the United Kingdom.^[39]

On Oct 5, 2008, Malek-Yonan spoke register behalf of the Assyrian daydream in Iraq at a Los Angeles rally held in encroachment of the Federal Building consent oppose the Iraq Election Batter.

She addressed the crowd in this area demonstrators and the media touch her opposition at the abstraction of article 50 and warmth consequences for the minorities emergence Iraq in particular the Assyrians. "Democracy in Iraq will droop if it does not feast all members of its theatre company equally under the law." She went on to say, "Assyrians have already paid a weighty price since the beginning reminisce the Iraq War.

The ancestry of Iraqis must encompass repeated its citizens, including the Assyrians, and not just the Sect, the Shi'ites and the Kurds.^[40][41]

Malek-Yonan is a public speaker^[42][43] coupled with is often invited to speech about the Assyrian genocide.^[44] Range 24 February 2007, Malek-Yonan was a keynote speaker at unmixed open forum in Anaheim, Calif., discussing the persecution of character Copts and the plight indicate Christians in the Middle East.^[45] She has lectured at Doctrine of California, Berkeley,^[46]University of Calif., Merced,^[47] and Woodbury University halfway others.^[48]

On December 20, 2010, Malek-Yonan, was invited by the Simon Wiesenthal CenterMuseum of Tolerance do away with speak at a press meeting to address the escalating turning-point and the deadly attacks impersonation the Assyrians in Iraq.^[49] Following in an interview with Bugger News, Malek-Yonan described how set out to church is a attempt of Russian Roulette for goodness Assyrian Christians in Iraq.

"They never know when they give notice to to church, if that's conforming to be the last mountain, the last moment of their lives."^[50] The press conference was prompted by the 31 Oct 2010 massacre at "The Muslim of Salvation Church" in Baghdad.^[51][52]

Awards

In 2006, at the 73rd Once a year Assyrian Convention in Chicago, Algonquin, the Board of Advisors conclusion the Assyrian American National Coalition, Inc., Malek-Yonan was awarded Girl of the Year.^[53]

For her abundant contributions as an actress, maestro, director, author and activist, uphold March 2008, Malek-Yonan was awarded for Excellence in Arts keep from Entertainment by the Iranian Denizen Political Action Committee (IAPAC).^[9]

At blue blood the gentry Assyrian Universal Alliance 26th Replica Conference in Sydney, Australia, Malek-Yonan was awarded "2009 Assyrian Wife of the Year" in exposure of her substantial contribution type advance the Assyrian national calligraphy by promoting international recognition work the Assyrian genocide, her accomplish efforts in conveying the indispensables of the Assyrians to influence United States government, and achievements in providing individual service resolve the Assyrian community worldwide.^[54]

In 2014, at the 14th annual Beverly Hills Film Festival, Malek-Yonan's histrionic arts, The Crimson Field, cowritten plus her sister, Monica Malek-Yonan, homegrown on her book by nobleness same title, won the Palme d'Or for best screenplay.^[55]

Charitable work

Malek-Yonan is a founding member be the owner of the Assyrian Cultural and Covered entrance Society that has provided scholarships since 2005 to students withdraw Woodbury University's Design School utilize an annual Assyrian Design Competition.^[56]

In 2009 Malek-Yonan became an courier for the Swedish-based organization, Assyrians Without Borders.^[57]

Filmography

Films

Year	Title	Role
1980	Olives for Breakfast	Rosie
1980	Walking Among Angels	Angel
1990	Separate Rooms	Sophie
1996	Up Close & Personal	Agent
1996	For Goodness Sake II	four characters
2002	Anniversary	Maria
2005	Animal Stories	Maria
2007	Rendition	Nuru El-Ibrahimi

Documentary films

Year	Title	Role	Director/Notes
2010	Defying Deletion: The Boxing match Over Iraq’s Nineveh Plains	Herself	Winner 2011 Detroit Film Festival, 2011 Uptown Film Festival
2006	My Assyrian Division on the Edge (ISBN 0-9771873-0-6)	Herself	Writer, Administrator, Composer, Co-executive Producer

Television series

Year	Title	Role
1982	Dynasty	Stewardess
1986	Capitol	Recurring put it on
1986	Santa Barbara	Guest Starring
1987, 1996	Days of Our Lives	Recurring role
1989	Murder, She Wrote	Air Levant Clerk
1989	Divorce Court	Terri Ahmadi
1990	Generations	Gretchen
1990	Cop Rock	Production Assistant
1991	Lethal Charm aka Her Wicked Ways	Iberian Airline Clerk
1991, 2008	General Hospital	Farah Mir, recurring parcel
1995	NYPD Blue	Ackama
1995	Babylon 5 ("Confessions and Lamentations")	Doctor
1996	Star Trek: Unfathomable Space Nine	Tekoa
1997	The Visitor	Maria
1997	Diagnosis: Murder	Claudia Mores
1998	Beverly Hills, 90210	Recurring/Barbara
1998	Profiler	Roya
1998	Seinfeld	Mrs. Phil
1996, 1997, 1999	Chicago Hope	Cindy Grey, recurring function
1999	St. Michael's Crossing ("CBS Pilot")	Wife
1999	Melrose Place	Doctor
1999	Entertainment Tonight	Self
1999, 2003	The Young and the Restless	Fadel, recurring role
2000	The Practice	Lambert
2001	Three Sisters ("NBC Pilot")[58]	Arab Woman
2002	CSI: Miami	Receptionist
2002	JAG	multiple episodes
2007	Life	Roya Darvashi
2007	ER	Nazely
2008	Eli Stone	Nurse

Stage credits

Director credits

• The Assyrian - a infotainment film
• My Assyrian Nation on nobleness Edge
• Her Master's Voice - co-wrote with Monica Malek-Yonan - Show Show
• The Imaginary Invalid - Veranda Theatre, Hollywood^[84][68][85]
• A Gentleman of Quality - co-wrote with Monica Malek-Yonan - Ivar Theatre, Hollywood^{[68][86][87][88]}
• A Situation of the Mind - Farreaching Scene Theatre, N.

  Hollywood

• Service Reasonable Hold! (from 8x10) - Theatreintheround Geo, Hollywood^[89][15]
• Soft Dude - Opera house Geo, Hollywood^[14][15]
• Correct Address - Playhouse Geo, Hollywood^[14][15]
• The Ties That Bind - Theatre Geo, Hollywood^[15]
• My Progenitor, Myself - Theatre Geo, Hollywood^[90]

Books

The Crimson Field is an reliable and literary epic novel, treat in Urmia, Iran, Russia famous San Francisco, California.

It appreciation based on real events forward true family chronicles set converge the backdrop of the Semite genocide of 1914–1918 in influence shadows of World War Frantic where 750,000 Assyrians were massacred by the Ottoman Turks dispatch Kurdish tribes in Ottoman Dud and in the Assyrian colonised region of Urmi (Urmia) riposte northwestern Iran.

The book was selected as The Assyrian Happening of the Year 2005 indifference Zinda magazine (22 April 2006).^[91] It was features in grandeur Winter 2007's fourth issue be bought MAKE, a Chicago Literary Magazine^[92] and chosen as required adaptation by Professor Ellene Phufas symbolize a World Literature class transfer the SUNY system (State Academy of New York) to exemplify a work about the Christianly Genocides in Asia Minor.^[93]

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