TEHRAN -- A brain tumor has forced Iranian actress Mahin Shahabi to leave the stage.

“She is in a poor physical condition and physicians are trying to cure her of the disease in her home,” said the Persian service of the Fars News Agency quoting her grandchild, who chose to remain anonymous.
Shahabi fell ill while acting in “Condition White”, a TV series currently being produced by Hamid Nematollah. She was admitted to Tehran’s Pars Hospital in late February and was released few weeks later. Afterwards, she was not able to continue her work with the TV series crew.
Shahabi, 73, began her career in radio shows in 1958. She began studying at the Anahita Art Center, an Iranian acting school.
She made her acting debut in “Jungle Adventure”, which was directed by Mehdi Mirsamadzadeh in 1959.
In 1969, she appeared in “The Cow”, a widely acclaimed film by a new wave Iranian director, Dariush Mehrjuii.
People mostly know her from her role in “The Mirror”, a popular Iranian TV series which IRIB broadcast in the 1980s.
Photo: Veteran Iranian actress of the stage and screen Mahin Shahabi is deeply affected after accepting a lifetime achievement award during the closing ceremony of the Seventh Women’s Theater Festival at Tehran’s City Theater Complex on July 2, 2008. (Fars/Hossein Salmanzadeh)