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Twenty-one years after coming to the United States, Shohreh Aghdashloo has her first leading role in an American movie. She left Tehran before the 1979 revolution, studied international relations in England, came to the States to tour with a political play and has remained in Los Angeles for 21 years, doing bit parts in movies and sitcoms and hitting the big time as Ben Kingsley's wife in "House of Sand and Fog," which won her an Oscar nomination in 2004 and a spot on the TV series "24" as a wealthy housewife who is also a terrorist. In the intense, electrifying "The Stoning of Soraya M.," which opened Friday in Washington and is based on a true story, the husky-voiced Aghdashloo plays an Iranian villager who stands up for her niece, who is accused of adultery and sentenced to death.
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