ACTRESS/WRITER/
SCRIPT SUPERVISOR
ACTRA
ABOUT ME
Shiva Safari is a Canadian actress with Iranian, Italian and Russian heritage. Having spent her childhood in Switzerland, her adolescence in Italy and her adult life between UAE and Canada, Shiva is a versatile world citizen who speaks fluently English, French, German, Swiss German, Italian and Farsi. Acting and performance have been her life long passions. As a child and adolescent she participated in numerous public majorette showcases, jazz dance events as well as musical and shadow theatre performances.
Current Projects:
Leading Dan/TV Show - a comedy series following the life of Danny, a superstar child actor, who gets a manny. Proof of Concept and Pitch Package available upon request.
Sam/Script - A Psychological Thriller Feature Film a la Joker meets The Sixth Sense.
Dreams Are My Reality/Script - A dramedy featuring Maryam, Persian with a tumultuous past and an accent, not your typical Hollywood leading lady but a fantastic acting coach who wants nothing more than to have her own acting career.
CURRENT PRODUCTIONS
What I'm Working On
IN MY MIND
Psychological Thriller Feature Film Script:
After realising she has been living the last 3 years of her life heavily medicated in a mental institution, a woman trapped in a fantasy world must get to grips with reality to be allowed to see her son again. But the spectre of her “best friend” keeps drawing her back into her unravelling mind.
LEADING DAN
Comedy Series Proof of Concept:
A talented, entitled child star is placed under the care of a desperate, failed writer-turned-manny, and now these polar opposites need to work together to survive the calamity of ‘the biz’.
DREAMS ARE MY REALITY
Dramedy Feature Script:
Maryam is one of the best acting coaches in Hollywood but she wants nothing more than to have a successful acting career herself. Can she overcome discrimination and the barriers to success in Hollywood?
