Alias - Jenny/Sarah Shahi Appreciation #9 ~ Currently stealing the spotlight in "Black Adam"

**Big Head want Dolly** · 11-10-2022, 09:45 AM

Welcome to the Jenny/Sarah Shahi Appreciation Thread!

Character Facts

Jenny is a 20 year old woman who worked with Will Tippin at his newspaper job. She and Will had been in a relationship for a year before Will broke up with her after being kidnapped by Jack Bristow. She got angry and quit being Will's assistant.

Season(s): 1
First Episode: So It Begins
Last Episode: Page 47
Status: Alive
Affiliation(s): Los Angeles Newspaper
Portrayed by: Sarah Shahi
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Sarah Shahi Facts

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Mini Bio: Sarah Shahi was born on January 10, 1980 as Aahoo Jahansouz in Euless, Texas, to an Iranian father and Spanish mother. She is a former NFL cheerleader and a descendant of a 19th-century Persian Shah. She attended Trinity High School and Dallas Southern Methodist University, studied opera and majored in English. As a teenager, she won several beauty contests, and took first place in the Miss Fort Worth USA pageant in 1997. She joined the Dallas Cowboys cheerleaders and was part of the 1999-2000 squad. While working as an extra on the set of Dr. T & the Women (2000), she met director Robert Altman, who encouraged her to move to Hollywood to pursue a career as an actress.
She is best-known for her role as the Mexican-American DJ "Carmen de la Pica Morales" in the Showtime series, "The L Word" (2004), which she joined in its second season and for her portrayal of ISA agent Sameen Shaw on the sci-fi TV show "Person of Interest" (2011). Shahi gave birth to her 1st son, William Wolf in 2009 and to twins (her 2nd son & 1st daughter) Knox Blue and Violet Moon in 2015.
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Trivia

Sarah was captain of her High School volleyball team
She adopted the name "Sarah" from the song by Irish Rock band Thin Lizzy
Played the first ever ghost seen on the series ''Supernatural''
Attended Southern Methodist University
Has an older brother, Cyrus, and a younger sister, Samantha Shahi
Sarah speaks English, Farsi and some Spanish
Sarah has a brown belt in karate

Recent Projects

2018- Reverie (TV Series) - Mara Kint
2017 Hangman - Captain Lisa Watson
2016 Drew (TV Movie) - Nancy Drew
2012-2016 Person of Interest (TV Series)- Sameen Shaw
2012 Bullet to the Head - Lisa
2012-2013 Chicago Fire (TV Series) - Renée Royce
2011 I Don't Know How She Does It - Janine LoPietro
2011-2012 Fairly Legal (TV Series) - Kate Reed
2010 Psych (TV Series) - Ruby
2007-2009 Life (TV Series) - Dani Reese
2005-2009 The L Word (TV Series) - Carmen de la Pica Morales
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