Iranian-American actor, Oscar-nominated for House of Sand and Fog and known for The Expanse, who played Commodore Paris, commander of Starbase Yorktown, in Star Trek Beyond.
Shohreh Aghdashloo is an Iranian-American actor, born in Tehran in 1952. She received an Academy Award nomination for House of Sand and Fog (2003), won an Emmy for House of Saddam and is widely known as Chrisjen Avasarala in The Expanse.
In Star Trek Beyond (2016) she plays Commodore Paris, the senior officer at the vast Starbase Yorktown. Early in the film she discusses with Kirk his application for a vice admiral's post, and she sends the Enterprise into the nebula on Kalara's rescue mission. At the end she closes the files on Balthazar Edison and offers Kirk the promotion, which he declines.
Her scenes were added during additional photography to strengthen the film's framing story.