Shahla Safia Zamir was born in 1948 in Capital.Her father, Ali Safi Zamir, was a local director in the Ministry of Transport, and her mother, Kobra Bahmani Tabari, was a primary school teacher.Marjan completed her primary education at Alvand High School. At the age of 12, she was a teenage reporter for “Etelaat Koodkan”, a weekly published magazine for teenagers. At the same time she was a narrator for the magazine’s weekly TV program.After graduating from high school, she married Mehdi Ali-Mohammadi, (a radio and dubbing narrator). This brought her a daughter, Poopak.