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Actress
Birth Name: Yara Sayeh Shahidi
Birth Date: February 10, 2000
Age: 26 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-).
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Actor Guest Producer Director Writer Music All CreditsThe Great American Baking Show: Celebrity Summer
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ContestantReality2023Live with Kelly and MarkStream
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ActorTinker BellMovie202365%Sitting in Bars with CakeStream
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Executive ProducerMovie202377%Sherri
GuestTalk2022black-ish: A Celebration -- An ABC News Special
SelfShow2022Becoming: Michelle Obama in Conversation
SelfShow2022The Kids Tonight Show
GuestTalk2021Grown-ish from Freeform
ActorShow2021Amend: The Fight for AmericaStream
SelfDocuseries2021100%PAW Patrol: The MovieStream
VoiceKendra WilsonMovie202182%Between the World and MeStream
ActorMovie202095%Wilmore
GuestTalk2020The Drew Barrymore ShowStream
GuestTalk2020Dear...Stream
SelfDocuseries2020100%Graduate Together: America Honors the High School Class of 2020
ActorShow2020Thanks a MillionStream
SelfReality2020Fearless
VoiceMelanieMovie2020Access Daily
GuestTalk2019Tamron HallStream
GuestTalk2019Today With Hoda & Jenna
GuestShow2019Desus & Mero
GuestShow2019The Sun Is Also a Star
ActorNatasha KingsleyMovie2019GMA Day
GuestNews2018Shatterbox
DirectorShow2018Explained
NarratorShow2018Dirty Laundry
GuestShow2018Oprah at the Apollo
GuestShow2018Grown-ishStream
ActorZoey JohnsonSeries2018Grown-ishStream
Executive ProducerSeries2018SmallfootStream
VoiceBrendaMovie201876%Small Foot
ActorBrendaMovie2018Access
GuestShow2017Access Live
GuestShow2017Sister Circle
GuestTalk2017Black Girls Rock!
ActorShow2017Live with Kelly and Ryan
GuestTalk2017Harry
GuestTalk2016To Tell the TruthStream
GuestGame Show2016The Daily Show with Trevor NoahStream
GuestTalk2015The Late Show With Stephen ColbertStream
GuestTalk2015106 & Park Live From BETX
HostShow2015Black-ishStream
ActorZoey JohnsonSeries201492%Black-ishStream
VoiceZoey JohnsonSeries201492%Hollywood Today Live
GuestShow2014Bad TeacherStream
Guest StarSeries201456%Late Night With Seth MeyersStream
GuestTalk2014The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy FallonStream
GuestTalk2014The Real
GuestTalk2013ScandalStream
Guest StarYoung Olivia PopeSeries201293%The FinderStream
Guest StarSeries2012Alex CrossStream
ActorJanelle CrossMovie201211%Dish Nation
GuestTalk2011The Marilyn Denis Show
GuestShow2011ButterStream
ActorDestinyMovie201135%The Talk
GuestTalk2010$#*! My Dad Says
Guest StarSeries20100%Access Hollywood Live
GuestShow2010In the MotherhoodStream
Guest StarSeries200916%Lie to MeStream
Guest StarOliviaSeries2009Imagine ThatStream
ActorOlivia DanielsonMovie200942%Wizards of Waverly PlaceStream
Guest StarOliveSeries2007etalk
GuestShow2006Entertainment Tonight Canada
GuestShow2005Cold CaseStream
Guest StarSeries2003The Ellen DeGeneres ShowStream
GuestTalk2003Jimmy Kimmel Live!Stream
GuestTalk2003Family Guy
Guest VoiceLittle GirlShow1999Family GuyStream
Guest VoiceLittle GirlSeries1999The ViewStream
GuestTalk1997Access HollywoodStream
GuestNews1996Good Morning America
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November 16, 2021 Freeform Announces ‘Grown-ish’ Season 4 Return, Series Premiere for ‘Single Drunk Female’
May 14, 2021 ‘Black-ish’ Renewed for 8th and Final Season at ABC
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September 30, 2020 ‘black-ish’ Promo Teases Animated Special & More Coming in Season 7 (VIDEO)
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December 26, 2019 Opinion
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June 20, 2019 TV Insider Podcast at ATX TV Festival: Phylicia Rashad, Yara Shahidi & Melissa Fumero
September 18, 2018 ‘grown-ish’ Season 2: Chloe Bailey, Halle Bailey & Luka Sabbat Upped to Series Regulars
January 23, 2018 Q&A
‘grown-ish’ Star da’Vinchi Talks Playing Cash Mooney and His Future With Zoey
January 18, 2018 Freeform Renews ‘grown-ish’ for Season 2
January 3, 2018 Roush Review: New Series ‘grown-ish’ Teaches Zoey Johnson Quite a Few Life Lessons
January 2, 2018 Yara Shahidi Says ‘black-ish’ Spinoff ‘grown-ish’ Is ‘More Cultural’ Than Sociopolitical in Its Issues
September 27, 2017 ‘Black-ish’ Creator Teases How New Family Dynamics Test the Johnsons in Season 4
May 19, 2017 Yara Shahidi to Headline Freeform’s ‘black-ish’ Spinoff ‘college-ish’
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March 9, 2017 International Women’s Day 2017: How TV’s Top Female Stars Celebrated
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