Sarah Shahi
Shahi in 2010, photo by Prphotos
Birth Name: Aahoo Jahansouz Shahi
Place of Birth: Euless, Tarrant, Texas, U.S.
Date of Birth: January 10, 1980
Ethnicity:
*75% Iranian
*25% Spanish
Sarah Shahi is an American actress and model. She is known for her roles in the films Shades of Ray, AmericanEast, Static, Bullet to the Head, Road to Paloma, Hangman, Bad Therapy, and Black Adam, and on the series The L Word, Life, Fairly Legal, Person of Interest, and Sex/Life.
Her birth name, Aahoo, means “gazelle” in Farsi. Her father, Abbas Jahansouz Shahi, is of Iranian descent. Her mother, Mah Monir Soroush Azar, an interior designer, was born in Spain, to an Iranian father and a Spanish mother. Sarah has three children with her former husband, actor Steve Howey.
Her father’s family left Iran two years before the Iranian Revolution. After the Revolution, her father, who was working at the American Embassy in Iran, was slated for execution, but fled the country. Sarah was raised speaking Persian, and competed in beauty pageants as a child.
About her upbringing, Sarah has stated:
[Euless]’s a tiny little town and a charming place to grow up. But every boy I liked never liked me back. To be beautiful in Texas, you had to be blonde and blue-eyed and have a name like Ann. Aahoo was a little weird for them.
Sarah is said to be a great-great-granddaughter of Fath-Ali Shah Qajar of the Qajar Dynasty, who ruled Iran from 1797 to 1834, by one of his wives, Begom Khanom. Begom was a daughter of Hossein Qoli Khan Afshar, niece of Begom Khanom, daughter of Emam Qoli Khan Afshar, through their son Jahansouz Shah.
Source: Sarah talks about her background – https://www.youtube.com
Looks Asian
Asian???? Where though?????? She looks Italian or Jewish.
Is not Irán in Asia? i really don’ t understand how there is an Asían looks when the continente is very diverse.
There’s different types of Asian. Which ones are you talking about? There’s East Asians, South Asians, and Southeast Asians.
She doesn’t look like any of them, btw.
“It’s a tiny little town and a charming place to grow up. But every boy I liked never liked me back. To be beautiful in Texas, you had to be blonde and blue-eyed and have a name like Ann. Aahoo was a little weird for them.”
I guess that’s why your stage name is Sarah.
Correction:
Iranians are not arabs. They are Persians
The text doesn’t say she’s Arab.
‘She is the daughter of Mah Monir, an interior designer, and Abbas Jahansouz Shahi. Her father is from Iran, and her mother is from Spain.[4]”
Monir is mother’s surname which is also Iranian.
Sarah must have meant her mother’s country of origin is Spain.
We all mistook for ethnicity :)
Sarah is most likely full Persian/Iranian
yah there all arabs xD
Nope you freaking dumb closed-minded person. Arabs are Arabs and Persian are Persians. Arabs and Persians ARE NOT RELATED. GO GET EDUCATED.