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Banafshe Hourmazdi was born in the Ruhr area in 1990. She played the flower girl in "Eine Kirche der Angst vor dem Fremden in mir" directed by Christoph Schlingensief at the Ruhrtriennale and the Berlin Theatertreffen in 2008/09. From 2009 to 2012 she studied acting at the Akademie für Darstellende Kunst Baden-Württemberg, followed by a master's degree in acting at the Zurich University of the Arts (2012-15). She took on the title role in the Swiss premiere of "Alice" a Tom Waits play at the Lucerne Theatre in 2013. In the same year she founded the theatre collective "Technocandy" with director Frederik Müller. Together they developed several plays and in 2014 the film "I Was Born To Make You Happy".
Hourmazdi performed several plays at the 'Körber Studio Junge Regie' and at the 'Fast Forward Festival' at the Staatstheater Braunschweig. Under the pseudonym "Bumsy LaBoum and Herrmann Herman" she appeared with Müller as a performance duo in Berlin nightclubs. In 2015, the two won the Newcomer Prize of the City of Vienna for their production "Meine Nase läuft" at Vienna's Theater Drachengasse. She has also appeared on stage at the Lucerne Theatre and the Munich Kammerspiele, among others. In 2018 she became a member of the ensemble of the Theater Oberhausen.
Since 2011 Hourmazdi has appeared in several short films. In 2015 she played a TV supporting role in an episode of the series "Kommissarin Lucas". She had a leading role in the web-comedy series "Der Wedding kommt" (2016).
Hourmazdi played her first leading role on the big screen in "Futur Drei" ("No Hard Feelings", 2019), as an Iranian refugee in Germany who becomes friends with the son of exiled Iranians and experiences an eventful summer with him and her brother. For this role Hourmazdi received the Götz-George Young Talent Award at the First Steps Awards 2019 together with her co-stars Benjamin Radjaipour and Eidin Seyed Jalali. "Futur Drei" was released in German cinemas in autumn 2020. In the same year she was seen in a supporting role in the culture-clash comedy "Matze, Kebab and Sauerkraut" (TV). She also appeared in a supporting role in Helena Hufnagel's feature film "Generation beziehungsunfähig", which is scheduled to start in 2021.
Banafshe Hourmazdi lives in Berlin.