I just cannot get enough of Shoreh Aghdashloo, lead actress in the brilliant new film, The Stoning of Soraya M. An excerpt from a great article about her in today's New York Post:

"Back there they are inhuman. My 16-year-old niece and a few friends were listening to a Michael Jackson record. She was found out and jailed. Given 60 lashes just for possessing the Michael Jackson record. When I heard, I was on the verge of a nervous breakdown.

"In 2003, my brother was jailed in Tehran for one and a half years just because I was in a demonstration much like the one tonight. He was a doctor who took care of war patients for three years. We thought they'd never touch him. Never do anything to him. Six a.m. the morning after the demonstration I participated in, they invaded his house. He is now out and lives in San Diego."

Is she not fearful there may again be reprisals against other family members?

"I have nobody else there except my mother who is 82 and won't leave because, she says, 'I need to visit your father's grave.' She is too old for them to bother with."

And Shohreh's hopes for someday?

Read the rest of the article here and fall in love yourself. What a stud...hope her amazing performance turns into an Oscar nod, as some are already speculating.