Nazanin Boniadi is many things. Actor. SAG Award nominee. Activist. Council on Foreign Relations Term Member. And now, she can add Academy Member to the list.

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced its newest class of members Wednesday, marking only the second round of invitees since the nearly 90-year-old institution launched an initiative to double the number of women and minorities in its ranks. In response to the #OscarsSoWhite controversy, the Oscar-granting Academy issued 774 invitations to new members. Of these invitations, 39% are women and 30% are people of color. With the new members, the share of women and people of color in the academy now stand at 28% and 13%, respectively.

The Tehran, Iran born Boniadi is in esteemed company, joining the ranks of newly invited Academy Members, Kristen Stewart, Gal Gadot, John Cho, Chris Pratt, Elle Fanning, Jordan Peele and many other stars. The Academy also extended invitations to other Iranian actors, including Leila Hatami and Golshifteh Farahani.

With television and movie appearances in Homeland, Zoolander 2, Passengers, Scandal and many more, she’s been hot demand. Boniadi recently appeared in the 2016 MGM-Paramount remake of BEN-HUR, playing the female lead role of Esther opposite Jack Huston, Morgan Freeman and Toby Kebbell. We will see her again on the big screen later this year, playing the role of “Zahra” in the Anthony Maras directed movie, “Hotel Mumbai“.