Yara Shahidi

Actress

Birth Name: Yara Sayeh Shahidi

Birth Date: February 10, 2000

Age: 25 years old

Birth Place: Minneapolis, Minnesota

Awards

Child star Yara Shahidi accrued over a dozen screen credits to her name before she had even reached her teens. Born in Minneapolis, MN in 2000 to an African-American mother and Iranian father, Shahidi first appeared in front of the camera when she was just 6 weeks old.

After moving to California with her family, she landed her first on-screen role, aged 7, in an episode of "Entourage" (HBO, 2004-11). Two years later, Shahidi was cast in the leading role of Olivia Danielson, the daughter of Eddie Murphy's high-flying executive who takes her father into an imaginary world, in family-friendly comedy "Imagine That" (2009).

Following a five-episode stint as Jessica St. Clair's daughter Esther in a short-lived sitcom "In The Motherhood" (ABC, 2009)--the first of several projects in which she appeared alongside her younger brother Shaheed--Shahidi played the daughter of Samuel L. Jackson's black-ops officer in the suspense thriller "Unthinkable" (2010) and Angelina Jolie's young neighbor in the spy movie "Salt" (2011).

Shahidi then played the key role of champion butter sculptor Destiny in the satirical ensemble comedy "Butter" (2011) and Tyler Perry's daughter in the much maligned big-screen adaptation of "Alex Cross" (2012), before landing a recurring role as the President's daughter, Chloe Johnson, in the hit black sitcom "The First Family" (Syndication, 2012-15).

In 2013, Shahidi played the younger version of Kerry Washington's character, Olivia Pope, in several flashback scenes on the hit political thriller "Scandal" (ABC, 2012-). In 2014, she landed her first co-starring role in a television sitcom as the mercurial teenager Zoey Johnson in the Kenya Barris sitcom "black-ish" (ABC, 2014-).

Yara Shahidi

Actress

Birth Name: Yara Sayeh Shahidi

Birth Date: February 10, 2000

Age: 25 years old

Birth Place: Minneapolis, Minnesota

Awards

Credits

Live with Kelly and MarkStream

Peter Pan & WendyStream

Sitting in Bars with CakeStream

Sitting in Bars with CakeStream

Sherri

black-ish: A Celebration -- An ABC News Special

Becoming: Michelle Obama in Conversation

The Kids Tonight Show

Grown-ish from Freeform

Amend: The Fight for AmericaStream

PAW Patrol: The MovieStream

Between the World and MeStream

Wilmore

The Drew Barrymore ShowStream

Dear...Stream

Graduate Together: America Honors the High School Class of 2020

Thanks a MillionStream

Fearless

Access Daily

Tamron HallStream

Today With Hoda & Jenna

Desus & Mero

The Sun Is Also a Star

GMA Day

Shatterbox

Explained

Dirty Laundry

Oprah at the Apollo

Grown-ishStream

Grown-ishStream

SmallfootStream

Small Foot

Access

Access Live

Sister Circle

Black Girls Rock!

Live with Kelly and Ryan

Harry

To Tell the TruthStream

The Daily Show with Trevor NoahStream

The Late Show With Stephen ColbertStream

106 & Park Live From BETX

Black-ishStream

Black-ishStream

Hollywood Today Live

Bad TeacherStream

Late Night With Seth MeyersStream

The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy FallonStream

The Real

ScandalStream

The FinderStream

Alex CrossStream

Dish NationStream

The Marilyn Denis Show

ButterStream

The Talk

$#*! My Dad Says

Access Hollywood Live

In the MotherhoodStream

Lie to MeStream

Imagine ThatStream

Wizards of Waverly PlaceStream

etalk

Entertainment Tonight Canada

Cold CaseStream

The Ellen DeGeneres Show

Jimmy Kimmel Live!Stream

Family Guy

Family GuyStream

The View

Access Hollywood

Good Morning America