Career
Hashemi spent her childhood in southern Tehran. She has acted in several films including The Night of the Hunchback, The Brick and the Mirror. She also directed some films, like The Gamble (1971 film).
In the film The Brick and the Mirror (director Ebrahim Golestan), Hashemi plays a taxi driver named Hashem who finds a baby in the back of his cab, left by a woman in a black chador (Forough Farrokhzad).