She won the Best Supporting Actress in a TV Mini-Series or Movie award at the 2009 Emmy Awards for her performance as Sajida in the HBO mini-series House of Saddam.
In 2008, she was a member of the honorary board at The Black & White Gala, a star-studded event focusing on raising funds for the Barack Obama election campaign.
Shohreh: (On Iran) Their repressed Muslim government hates the fact that I am an actress. But they still all see my movies, even though my films are not allowed to be shown there. But everything's under the table. Everyone sells on the black market. They get pirated copies, and then someone copies the copies.