Black Mirror: Streamberry CEO Looked Familiar? Here's Where You've Seen the Actress Before
Leila Farzad is the name to put Mona Javadi's face to.
The first episode of Black Mirror's new season, Joan is Awful, hits close to home. However, as Streamberry's CEO Mona Javadi was explaining how her company's quantum computer creates infinite multiverse content using ordinary users' lives and putting celebrity faces on them using deep fake technology, you might have kept wondering where you had seen Mona Javadi's face before. Wonder no more: we're here to tell you everything there is to know about Leila Farzad.
She has a CV full of television roles, making her a household name in the UK and beyond. After graduating from Oxford with a Bachelor of Arts, Farzad pursued her lifelong dream of acting. Her first role was voicing Mummy Pony and Mummy Cat in Peppa Pig.
Farzad's first appearance on television was at age 26 when she took part in the sixth episode of the first season of Law & Order: UK, titled Paradise. Since then, she has played a great deal of one-off roles in popular British shows like Married Single Other, Twenty Twelve, Man Down, Cuffs and Innocent. She rose to fame with her first lead role in 2020's I Hate Suzie, a dramedy starring Doctor Who's Billie Piper.
In I Hate Suzie, Farzad plays Naomi Jones, the manager and friend of Piper's character Suzie, an actress dealing with the fallout after having some explicit photos of her leaked. The two-season series was a critical and rating success, earning Farzad a BAFTA nomination for Best Supporting Actress.
Other memorable projects you may have seen Leila Farzad in include The Fear Index, Avenue 5, and Better. In the BBC One crime drama Better, which was released in February this year, the actress plays the protagonist, DI Lou Slack, who undergoes a moral awakening after a painful event in her life and decides to atone for her sins and cut ties with a criminal boss she has been working for for two decades.
Now with the Black Mirror role, there is no doubt that we will be seeing more and more of Leila Farzad on our screens in the future.