Jiah Khan

Jiah Khan's story lingers with me precisely because it was cut short. An American-born, London-raised young woman who chased a film career all the way to Mumbai, she had the boldness to bet everything on a dream in an industry that rarely favors outsiders. Three Hindi films across a few short years is a slim record, yet I read it as evidence of nerve rather than failure. Her death at twenty-five robbed us of whatever she might have become, and I find myself genuinely curious about the artist she was still becoming. Talent interrupted is its own kind of haunting beauty.

Name (English)

Jiah Khan

Name (Japanese)

ジア・カーン

Reading

じあ・かーん

Born

February 20, 1988 – June 3, 2013

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Pisces / Dragon

Origin

New York City, New York, United States

Occupation

actor / singer / model

• Official sitehttp://www.therealjiahkhan.com
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/jiahkhan/
• Xhttps://x.com/jiahkhan
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jiah%20Khan
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B8%E3%82%A2%E3%83%BB%E3%82%AB%E3%83%BC%E3%83%B3
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3595158

Tags

• New York
• actor
• singer
• model

Last updated

2026-06-17

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.