Yara Shahidi

What strikes me about Yara Shahidi is how she carried Zoey Johnson from Black-ish straight into Grown-ish without ever letting the character feel like a spinoff afterthought. Growing up on screen from those early film roles in the late 2000s into a leading sitcom run is a hard balance, and she pulled it off while heading to Harvard, which tells me she never bought into the idea that you pick either school or stardom. The Max Mara Face of the Future nod in 2023 fits the pattern. To me she reads as someone deliberately building a long, deliberate career rather than chasing a quick moment.

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Name (English)

Yara Shahidi

Name (Japanese)

ヤラ・シャヒディ

Reading

やら・しゃひでぃ

Born

February 10, 2000 (age 26)

Origin

Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States

Occupation

actor / film actor / television actor / model

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Aquarius / Dragon

University

Harvard University

Awards & achievements

• 2023 Max Mara Face of the Future Award

• Official sitehttps://www.yarashahidi.com/
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/yarashahidi/
• Xhttps://x.com/YaraShahidi
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yara%20Shahidi
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%A4%E3%83%A9%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B7%E3%83%A3%E3%83%92%E3%83%87%E3%82%A3
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q453620

Tags

• Minnesota
• actor
• film actor
• television actor

Last updated

September 18, 2026

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.