Iranian Zar Amir Ebrahimi, who lives in exile following a smear campaign about her love life, wept with joy as she won the best actress award at the Cannes Film Festival on Saturday. Ebrahimi, 41, won for "Holy Spider", in which she plays a journalist trying to solve the serial murders of prostitutes in the holy city of Mashhad."I have come a long way to be on this stage tonight. It was not an easy story," she told the audience at the awards ceremony.She said she had been "saved by cinema".
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