Afsaneh Bayegan (Persian: افسانه بایگان; born January 2, 1961) is an Iranian film and television actress and beauty pageant titleholder who placed 2nd Runner-Up at Miss Iran 1976.

[4] Bayegan's first acting experience came at the age of 11 when she starred in a short film titled Bugle, directed by Ali Alizadeh in 1972.

A year later, in 1985, she landed her first film role in The Lost, directed by Mehdi Sabbaghzadeh, and soon became one of the most prolific actresses of the 1980s in Iranian cinema.

Bayegan was nominated for Best Actress awards at the Fajr Film Festival for her roles in One Ticket for Two (1990), The Peculiar Sisters (1995), and Star Cafe (2005).

Bayegan took a brief hiatus from the film industry in the late 1990s and early 2000s, as she felt it was better to step back rather than compromise her standards.