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Mona Yousefi is a British actress, who gained widespread acclaim for her standout performance in her BBC show Going Native where she starred in multiple roles.

An unconventional start…

Mona landed her first directorial television debut with Mayhem Makers which aired on E4 and she managed to get commissioned without an agent or any industry connections. She tied a trailer tape of her show to a helium balloon and arrived at Channel 4 reception but was duly kicked out. Unperturbed, she climbed up the side of the building to the mail-room window where she paid the post room guy ten pounds to put the trailer onto the desk of the Head of Comedy… and so it began.

Hat Trick days ... The Female Borat

Mona then developed her own style of intricately creating personas in an Andy Kauffman-esque approach to character embodiment. She caught the attention of Hat Trick Productions who quickly picked her up as talent and here she found a nurturing environment for her creative work, leading to the optioning of her characters.   Among these personas were Tallah Khosravian, the Middle-Eastern businesswoman; Wakana Fukui, the Japanese Lolita girl; and the widow Natascha Leboushkin, a Russian social climber. These characters formed the foundation of Going Native, a groundbreaking project where Mona skillfully portrayed them in the real world under the unsuspicious guise of a genuine documentary.

Going Native produced by Hat Trick with Kayvan Novak as executive producer was commissioned by the BBC.  The show launched on BBC Three to to global rave reviews, whereby Mona was likened to Sacha Baron Cohen with the ubiquitous headline "The Female Borat".

Other roles 

Mona has since embraced a diverse array of roles in various TV and film productions, including alongside Jolyon Rubinstein and Heydon Prowse in all three series of the BBC's BAFTA winning comedy The Revolution Will Be Televised, Ryan Sampson's hybrid ITV show Glitchy and more recently featured in Tony Kaye's new movie The Trainer.

Training

Mona recently trained in acting at RADA, The Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, and has undertaken specialist training in the Meisner technique under the guidance of Scott Williams.  Prior to this, she received training in method acting from teacher Sam Rumbelow and further honed her skills in characters and theatre with the renowned Philippe Gaulier.

In addition to her acting training, Mona has completed a stunt training course at the British Action Academy under the guidance of Andreas Petrides, one of the UK's leading Action Directors, Stunt Coordinators, Fight Arrangers, and Stunt Performers.