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Aahoo Jahansouz "Sarah" Shahi[1] (Persian: آهو جهانسوز سارا شاهی; born January 10, 1980) is an American television actress and former NFL Cheerleader of Iranian and Spanish ancestry. She played Kate Reed in the USA Network legal drama Fairly Legal in 2011–12, Carmen on The L Word in 2008, and also starred as Sameen Shaw on the CBS crime drama Person of Interest.[2] She has also appeared as the main female role Det. Dani Reese in Life, and in a supporting role in Alias.[3]
Born Aahoo Jahansouz Shahi
January 10, 1980 (age 38)
Euless, Texas, U.S.
Citizenship American
Occupation Actress, model
Years active 1988–present
Spouse(s) Steve Howey (m. 2009)
Children 3
Sarah Shahi was born on January 10, 1980, in Euless, Texas, and raised there.[1] She is the daughter of Mah Monir Soroush Azar, an interior designer, and Abbas Jahansouz Shahi, who divorced when she was ten.[4] Her father is from Iran. Her mother was born in Spain, to an Iranian father and a Spanish mother.[5][6] She has an older brother, Cyrus,[7] and a younger sister, Samantha, who is a production assistant.[8][9][10][11][12] Her father's family left Iran two years before the Iranian Revolution.[13][14] Her father, who was working at the American Embassy in Iran, was slated for execution when the last Shah's regime collapsed in 1979, but was able to flee the country.[4] Her birth name, Aahoo (Persian: آهو), means "gazelle" in Persian.[6] She is a great-great-granddaughter of Fath-Ali Shah Qajar, who ruled Iran from 1797 to 1834,[4] by one of his wives, Begom Khanom, daughter of Hossein Qoli Khan Afshar, niece of Begom Khanom, daughter Emam Qoli Khan Afshar, through their son Jahansouz Shah.[1]
Shahi adopted Sarah as her name in second grade after hearing a song called "Sarah" because she was "tormented" by other children about her unusual birth name.[1] At her father's behest, she grew up speaking Persian, in addition to English. Shahi's parents began entering her in beauty pageants at the age of eight.[14] Shahi attended Trinity High School, where she was captain of the volleyball and basketball teams, and Southern Methodist University, majoring in English and Theater.[15] She was a member of Alpha Chi Omega during her time at SMU. Shahi won the Miss Fort Worth pageant in 1997.[16] Hoping to become an actress, she joined the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders (1999–2000) squad despite not having cheered before, and appeared on the cover of the squad's 2000 calendar. Later, she moved to Los Angeles.[1]
Shahi married actor Steve Howey on February 7, 2009, in Las Vegas. On July 8, 2009, she gave birth to their first child, son William Wolf Howey,[28] during an at-home water birth.[29] In January 2015, she announced that she was pregnant with twins.[30] On March 1, 2015, daughter Violet Moon and son Knox Blue were born during another home birth.[31]
Shahi was named number 90 on the Maxim magazine "Hot 100 of 2005" list, moving up to number 66 in 2006[32] and 36 in 2012.[33] She appeared on the cover of Maxim's 2012 'TV's Hottest Girls' Issue in October 2012.[34] She ranked number 5 on the AfterEllen.com hot list in 2007.[35]
Height: 1.6 m
Persian may refer to:
People and things from Iran, historically called Persia in the English language
Persians, the majority ethnic group in Iran, not to be conflated with the Iranian peoples
Persian language, an Iranian language of the Indo-European family, native language of ethnic Persians
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