<Tr> <Th> Children </Th> <Td> </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Website </Th> <Td> www.sarahshahi.com </Td> </Tr> <P> Aahoo Jahansouz "Sarah" Shahi (Persian: آهو جهانسوز سارا شاهی ‎; born January 10, 1980) is an American television actress and former NFL Cheerleader of Iranian and Spanish ancestry . She played Kate Reed in the USA Network legal drama Fairly Legal in 2011--12, Carmen on The L Word in 2008, and also starred as Sameen Shaw on the CBS crime drama Person of Interest . She has also appeared as the main female role Det . Dani Reese in Life, and in a supporting role in Alias . In 2018 she stars in the series Reverie . </P> <P> 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 Bahai 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 is a Bahai, 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 birth name, Aahoo (Persian: آهو ‎), means "gazelle" in Persian. . She belongs to one of the major Bahai families . </P>

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