Mahtob Mahmoody, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Mahtob Mahmoody

Date of Birth: 04-Sep-1979

Place of Birth: Houston, Texas, United States

Profession: writer

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

Mahtob Maryam Mahmoody (Persian: ????? ?????? born September 4, 1979) is an American author who wrote the autobiographical memoir My Name is Mahtob, which depicts her perspective of her family's story when she and her mother, Betty Mahmoody, were held captive by her father, Sayyed Bozorg Mahmoody, in his country of birth, Iran, for a period of 18 months during the mid-1980s.
Her mother wrote her version of their story in her 1987 biography Not Without My Daughter, which was adapted into a 1991 feature film of the same name in which Mahtob was portrayed by Sheila Rosenthal and her parents were portrayed by Sally Field and Alfred Molina.