Sepideh Moafi was nominated for her first Emmy Award for her role as Dr. Baran Al-Hashimi on The Pitt, a strong-willed doctor who blazes into the second season of the medical series and tries to take charge of the emergency room.
The Emmy nomination itself is a dream, but so is earning it for this complex character, says Moafi, who has heard from many fans about the resonance they feel with Al-Hashimi, whether it be due to the revelation of the character living and working with a seizure disorder, her Iranian and Iraqi heritage or the way in which she consistently has to stand up to Noah Wiley’s Dr. Robby, who she is meant to temporarily replace as head of the E.R.
“I can’t imagine a more ideal world, show, character to have this sort of recognition with,” Moafi said shortly after the nominations were announced Wednesday. “Playing this woman who carries so many worlds, so many of which I can identify with in my own way, and, that I’ve heard over the last several months, so many people identify with, whether it’s with her chronic disease, her chronic illness, people with disability, people who are mixed race, people who are from the Middle East or Africa, women in medicine who are in similar positions and have to deal with certain male counterparts,” Moafi said.
