Sarah Shahi

Sarah Shahi was born on January 10, 1980, in Euless, Texas, and raised there. She is the daughter of Mah Monir Soroush Azar, an interior designer, and Abbas Jahansouz Shahi, who divorced when she was ten. Her father is from Iran. Her mother was born in Spain, to an Iranian father and a Spanish mother. She has an older brother, Cyrus, and a younger sister, Samantha, who is a production assistant. Her father\'s family left Iran two years before the Iranian Revolution. Her father 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 birth name, Aahoo (Persian: آهو‎), means "gazelle" in Persian. \n', '

Shahi adopted Sarah as her name in second grade after hearing a song called "Sarah" because she was "tormented" by other children about her unusual birth name. At her father\'s behest, she…