Iranian-American Actress Gets Fed Up With Hollywood’s Racism

So she decides to do something about it.

By Jamilah King Jan 23, 2014

Ever get tired of seeing your favorite Middle Eastern actors relegated to roles that only deal with the War on Terror? Because they surely are.

Kathreen Khavari is a public-health-professional-turned actress who was fed up with Hollywood’s racism, so she decided to do something about it. In this six-minute short — in which Khavari plays 11 different characters — a woman goes through a serious identity crisis wondering if she’s a terrorist after watching an episode of "Homeland."

"This film came to fruition because I was sick of getting sent out for mostly terrorist roles, which my agent at the time believed was all I could play," Khavari told Colorlines in an e-mail.