Yara Shahidi
Yara Shahidi was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States on February 10th, 2000 and is the TV Actress. At the age of 24, Yara Shahidi biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, movies, TV shows, and networth are available.
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Yara Sayeh Shahidi (born February 10, 2000) is an American actress, model, and activist.
She came to prominence for her role as the oldest daughter Zoey Johnson on the sitcom Black-ish (2014–present) and its spin-off series Grown-ish (2018–present).
Imagine That (2009), Smallfoot (2018), and the lead role in The Sun Is Also a Star (2019).
Early life
Yara Sayeh Shahidi was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, to Keri Salter Shahidi and Afshin Shahidi, a photographer. Keri Salter, her mother, is of African-American and Choctaw descent, though her father, Afshin, is Iranian. Afshin was one of the principal photographers for Prince Afshin until his death in 2016. Prince Yara in his editing suit at Paisley Park can also be seen on the VIP Tour. When Yara was 4 years old, the family moved to California for Afshin's work. Sayeed Shahidi, the older sister of child actor and actress Sayeed Shahidi, has a younger brother, Ehsan, and they have a younger brother. Nas is a cousin of the rapper.
In Persian, Keri's mother describes her daughter's first name, Yara, means "Someone close to your heart." Shahidi is also a common surname in Iran, and Muslims are also of Muslim origins.
Shahidi graduated from Dwight Global Online School in 2017. Shahidi began college at Harvard University in 2018 with a plan to major in Interdisciplinary Sociology and African American Studies.
Career
She began working in television commercials and print ads for companies such as McDonald's, Ralph Lauren, Target, GapKids, Disney, Guess Kids, and The Children's Place. She used to work with her mother and younger brother in several print and broadcast campaigns.
Shahidi made her cinematic debut in 2009, starring Eddie Murphy in Paramount Pictures' Imagine That, for which she received a Young Artist Award nomination for her best performance in a feature film category. She appeared in the Angelina Jolie action film Salt in 2010 as a next door neighbor. Chloe Johnson, President William Johnson's daughter, appeared in the television series The First Family in 2012.
Shahidi appeared on ABC's prime-time comedy Black-ish as 14-year-old Zoey Johnson, beginning in September 2014. In December 2014, she received an NAACP Image Award in the category of 'Best Supporting Actress in a Comedy.'
In 2016, she began to model for New York's Women Management modeling firm in the hopes of gaining a platform for more women of color in diverse careers.
Shahidi will be headlining a Black-ish spinoff, dubbed Grown-ish by ABC in 2017 on its sister network Freeform. On January 3, 2018, the series premiered.
Net-a-Porter, a fashion website, ranked her as one of the top dressed women in 2018.
Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, was one of fifteen people chosen to cover British Vogue's September 2019 issue.
Shahidi and her mother formed 7th Sun Production Company in 2020 and signed an agreement with ABC Studios to produce shows. In the forthcoming Peter Pan & Wendy remake, she was cast as Tinker Bell. And will be included in the Apple TV+ anthology collection Extrapolations.