Yara Shahidi was born on February 10, 2000 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA as Yara Sayeh Shahidi. She is an actress, known for Salt (2010), Black-ish (2014) and Alex Cross (2012).

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Older sister of actor Sayeed Shahidi.
Yara is Sophomore in High School this year. A student of the martial art form, Tang Soo Do, Yara has earned her black belt.
Is half African-American and half Iranian.
She is continuously learning how to speak, write, and read Persian.
Yara plans to become a Historian, specializing in world history, while continuing to pursue her love of acting.
Is a first cousin, once removed, of rapper Nas. Yara's maternal great-grandparents, Ella Mae and Charles Rufus Jones, were Nas's maternal grandparents.
Received the "Generation Next Award" at the 10th annual Essence Black Women In Hollywood event, February, 2017.
Friends with Rowan Blanchard.
On the NPR podcast "Code Switch," Shahidi described her heritage as "half-black, half-Iranian". She also described the meaning of her name, Yara Sayeh Shahidi: "the literal translation is: Yara means 'somebody close to your heart'; Sayeh means 'shadow'; and my last name, Shahidi, means 'witness.' My name means 'somebody close to your heart shadow witness.'".
She and her family moved to California because of her father's work.
In two different series she has played characters named Chloe Johnson and Zoey Johnson.

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