- Her father owned a music shop which was destroyed by the Taliban.
- She studies at a school run by Aschiana, an Afghan relief agency for children.
- She has used the money she made from Osama to buy her parents a four-bedroom, mud home in a poor part of Kabul.
- Discovered wandering through the ruined capital, a child begging for food.
- She is an ethnic Tajik.
- She is continuing to pursue acting as a career, appearing in four more films in the year after the release of "Osama."
- The only film she had seen before starring in "Osama" was a pirated video tape of "Titanic."
- She earned $14 for her role in "Osama," and later received a $4,000 prize from an international film festival in Seoul, South Korea.
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