BAFTA Winner Narges Rashidi Signs With TFC Management

EXCLUSIVE: Narges Rashidi, who recently won the BAFTA for Leading Actress for her portrayal of Nazanin Zaghari Ratcliffe in BBC’s Prisoner 951, has signed with TFC Management.

The series, directed by Phillipa Lowthorpe and also starring Joseph Fiennes, told the true story of Zaghari Ratfcliffe’s wrongful seven-year imprisonment in Iran and her husband’s subsequent fight for her release. In addition to the BAFTA, Narges also received two Royal Television Society Awards along with several other award nominations for her portrayal of Nazanin.

Narges is perhaps best known in the U.S. and the UK for her role as fearless mobster ‘Lale’ in Gangs of London for Sky/AMC, which is heading into its fourth and final season in 2027. Narges also performs the majority of her own stunts across the series.

Her breakthrough role was leading Babak Anvari’s 2016 critically acclaimed and multi-award winning Persian-language film Under the Shadow, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival. For her performance, Narges received a nomination for Best Actress at the BIFAs, a well as the Breakthrough Actress award at the New York International Film Festival.

Narges’ other credits include Netflix feature Havoc opposite Tom Hardy and indie feature Last Swim, which won at Berlinale 2025. Narges has a long list of German credits, including series The Allegation, which won the Dior Grand Prize at Canneseries in 2021.

Founded in 2020 by David Stone and Ben Jacobson, TFC Management reps on-camera talents such as Dakota and Elle Fanning, Shira Haas, Lashana Lynch, JD Pardo, Dan Ings and Josh Hutcherson, as well as such creators, filmmakers, novelists and producers as Warren Littlefield, Brian Yorkey, Megan Park, Adam Reed, Akiva Goldsman, Courtney Lilly, Josh & Jonas Pate and Rebecca Serle.

TFC’s sister company, TFC Productions, most recently produced the Apple series Margo’s Got Money Troubles, created by David E. Kelley and starring Elle Fanning, which recently received eight Emmy nominations, including Outstanding Comedy Series.

Rashidi will continue to be repped by The Artists Partnership in all areas.