Yara Shahidi gained recognition for her starring role as the oldest daughter Zoey Johnson on the sitcom Black-ish and its spin-off series Grown-ish.
15 Facts About Yara Shahidi
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Yara Sayeh Shahidi was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, to Keri Salter Shahidi and Afshin Shahidi, a photographer.
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The Shahidi family moved to California for Afshin's work when Yara was 4 years old.
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Yara Shahidi is the older sister of child actor and model Sayeed Shahidi and they have a younger brother, Ehsan.
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Yara Shahidi is a common surname in Iran, of Muslim origin, which means "witness" in Persian.
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Yara Shahidi began her career when she was 6 years old, appearing in television commercials and print advertisements for companies such as McDonald's, Ralph Lauren, Target, GapKids, Disney, Guess Kids and The Children's Place.
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Yara Shahidi frequently worked with her mother and younger brother in various print and broadcast campaigns.
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Yara Shahidi made her cinematic debut in 2009, starring opposite Eddie Murphy in Paramount Pictures' Imagine That, for which she received a Young Artist Award nomination for the best performance in a feature film category.
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Yara Shahidi appeared in the Angelina Jolie action film Salt in 2010 as a next door neighbor.
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ABC announced in 2017 that Yara Shahidi would be headlining a Black-ish spinoff, titled Grown-ish, on its sister network Freeform.
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Yara Shahidi was ranked one of the best dressed women in 2018 by fashion website Net-a-Porter.
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Yara Shahidi was one of fifteen women selected to appear on the cover of the September 2019 issue of British Vogue, by guest editor Meghan, Duchess of Sussex.
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Yara Shahidi's activism was noticed by former first lady Michelle Obama, who wrote her a letter of recommendation to Harvard University.
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Yara Shahidi was given the opportunity by Teen Vogue to interview Hillary Clinton in 2017.
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In 2021, Yara Shahidi joined the Dior Stand with Women campaign.