Biographies: Cyrus Nowrasteh - Writer

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American film director and writer, born on September 19, 1956, in Boulder, Colorado, USA. He grew up in Madison, Wisconsin to a family of Iranian origins. He graduated from Madison West High School. He was a junior high school tennis champion. He enrolled at New Mexico State University on an athletic scholarship. He then joined the University of Southern California to enroll in the School of Cinematic Arts. He married Betsy Giffen Nowrasteh, and they have two children. He is known for the movie The Stoning of Soraya M. (2009).