Sarah Shahi attends the 2022 MTV Movie & TV Awards at Barker Hangar

Sarah Shahi was born Aahoo Jahansouzshahi on January 10, 1980 and raised in Euless, Texas, U.S. She is the daughter of Abbas Jahansouzshahi and Mahmonir Soroushazar, an interior designer, who divorced when she was ten. Her father’s family left two years before the Revolution. 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. Her mother was born in Spain, to an father and a Spanish mother.

June 6, 2022 | 6:07 pm