Shima Bakhtiari is a theater and cinema actress born in 1994 in Tehran. Her undergraduate education is theater stage and costume design and her master's degree is theater directing.

She has appeared in several theater and film performances as an actor. Her other activities include stage design, assistant director, and theater production.
She has completed her master's thesis in theater as the stage design of Alfred Jarry's Obo play based on Felix Walton's paintings and her master's thesis in theater direction as "Evaluation of the effectiveness of documentary theater in reducing the suicidal motivation of the audience".
Shima Bakhtiari has a teaching experience in "Teaching Child and Adolescent Acting" in the form of a workshop at the "Madrasa" Institute and teaching the individual recognition of the actor and personal behavior in the Azad University of Iran.
She has also participated in the following workshops:
Nasser Hosseini's acting workshop in October 2013
Hedayat workshop of Hamid Pourazari in 2016
Shahram Makri's short film making workshop