Aahoo Jahansouzshahi, known professionally as Sarah Shahi, is an American actress and former model.
21 Facts About Sarah Shahi
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Sarah Shahi played Carmen on The L Word in 2005, Kate Reed in the USA Network legal drama Fairly Legal, and Sameen Shaw on the CBS crime drama Person of Interest.
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Sarah Shahi was born Aahoo Jahansouzshahi on January 10,1980 and raised in Euless, Texas, US She is the daughter of Abbas Jahansouzshahi and Mahmonir Soroushazar, an interior designer, who divorced when she was ten.
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Sarah Shahi's mother was born in Spain, to an Iranian father and a Spanish mother.
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Sarah Shahi's parents began entering her in beauty pageants at the age of eight.
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Sarah Shahi was a member of Alpha Chi Omega during her time at SMU.
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Sarah Shahi was named number 90 on the Maxim "Hot 100 of 2005" list, moving up to number 66 in 2006 and 36 in 2012.
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Sarah Shahi appeared on the cover of Maxims 2012 'TV's Hottest Girls' Issue in October 2012.
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Sarah Shahi played Farah in the second season of Sleeper Cell, and appeared in HBO's The Sopranos in 2007, in the Season 6b episode "Kennedy and Heidi" as Sonya Aragon, a stripper and college student who spends a weekend with Tony after a death in his family.
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In October 2009, Sarah Shahi landed the lead role in the USA Network pilot, Facing Kate.
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Sarah Shahi was cast as a recurring love interest for Taylor Kinney's character Lt.
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Sarah Shahi was cast in the recurring role of Sameen Shaw on Person of Interest, making her first appearance in the second season episode "Relevance", which aired in February 2013.
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In May 2013, CBS President Nina Tassler announced that Sarah Shahi would be added as a series regular for its third season.
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Sarah Shahi played the daughter of Sylvester Stallone's character in the 2012 action film Bullet to the Head.
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Also in May, Sarah Shahi resumed her appearances as Shaw on Person of Interest, until June 21,2016, when the show ended.
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Sarah Shahi starred in the new TV series Reverie in 2018, but it was cancelled after one season.
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In 2019, Sarah Shahi joined the cast of Showtime's City on A Hill as recurring character Rachel Behnam, an investigator for the district attorney.
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Sarah Shahi plays Billie, a housewife struggling to remain a devoted wife and mother when tempted by an old flame and the freer days of her youth.
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Sarah Shahi married actor Steve Howey on February 7,2009, in Las Vegas.
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Sarah Shahi studied karate in her youth becoming a 1st dan black belt in Shorin-Ryu karate.
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The lawsuit claimed Sarah Shahi mocked her Islamic customs of dress and fasting.