Yara Shahidi is an American actress. She was born on February 10, 2000, in Minneapolis, Minnesota, to Keri Salter and Afshin Shahidi.

Yara graduated from Dwight Global Online School. Starting in 2018, she began college at Harvard University with a plan to major n interdisciplinary Sociology and African American Studies.

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. She was ranked one of the best dressed women in 2018 by the fashion website, Net-a-Porter.

Is Yara Shahidi a Nigerian?

Yara Sayeh Shahidi was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, to Keri Salter Shahidi and Afshin Shahidi, a photographer.

Her mother, Keri Salter, is of mixed black and Native Choctaw heritage, whereas her father Afshin is Iranian. The family moved to California for Afshin’s work when Yara was 4 years old.