Pouri Banayi (Persian: پوری بنایی‎‎; born on 11 October 1940, Arak, Iran) is an Iranian actress. She acted in more than 85 feature films between 1965 and 1979. During her years of acting before Iranian revolution, she cooperated with directors such as; Mehdi Reisfirooz, Samuel Khachikian, Masoud Kimiai, Farrokh Ghaffari, and Fereidoun Goleh. Her most memorable performances are in Iranian new wave films such as Masoud Kimiai's Qeysar in 1969 and in Fereydun Gole's The Mandrake.

She also acted in some foreign films such as Missile X: The Neutron Bomb Incident directed by Leslie H. Martinson in which she costarred with Peter Graves. In another film directed by Fereydun Gole, named The Moon and a Murmur (1977), she costarred with John Ireland and Mickey Rooney. Jean Negulesco chose her and Behrouz Vosoughi to play the roles of a couple in his last film The Invincible Six (1970). Jun'ya Sato, the Japanese director chose her for the lead actress in his 1973 adaptation of the manga, Golgo 13.

Biography

She was engaged to Behrouz Vosughi, but they didn't officially get married and Vosughi married Googoosh, Iranian singer and actress. Pouri's sister is Aki Banayi (Akram Banayi) . She is a singer and lives in Los Angeles.