Yara Shahidi
Child star Yara Shahidi accrued over a dozen screen credits to her name before she had even reached her teens. Born in Minneapolis, MN in 2000 to an African-American mother and Iranian father, Shahidi first appeared in front of the camera when she was just 6 weeks old. After moving to California with her family, she landed her first on-screen role, aged 7, in an episode of "Entourage" (HBO, 2004-11). Two years later, Shahidi was cast in the leading role of Olivia Danielson, the daughter of Eddie Murphy's high-flying executive who takes her father into an imaginary world, in family-friendly comedy "Imagine That" (2009). Following a five-episode stint as Jessica St. Clair's daughter Esther in short-lived sitcom "In The Motherhood" (ABC, 2009)--the first of several projects in which she appeared alongside her younger brother Shaheed--Shahidi played the daughter of Samuel L. Jackson's black-ops officer in the suspense thriller "Unthinkable" (2010) and Angelina Jolie's young neighbor in the spy movie "Salt" (2011). Shahidi then played the key role of champion butter sculptor Destiny in the satirical ensemble comedy "Butter" (2011) and Tyler Perry's daughter in the much maligned big-screen adaptation of "Alex Cross" (2012), before landing a recurring role as the President's daughter, Chloe Johnson, in the hit black sitcom "The First Family" (Syndication, 2012-15). In 2013, Shahidi played the younger version of Kerry Washington's character, Olivia Pope, in several flashback scenes on the hit political thriller "Scandal" (ABC, 2012-). In 2014, she landed her first co-starring role in a television sitcom as the mercurial teenager Zoey Johnson in the Kenya Barris sitcom "black-ish" (ABC, 2014-).
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Filmography
Movies
Credit | |||||
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77% |
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Sitting in Bars with Cake |
Jane (Character), Executive Producer |
- | 2023 |
65% |
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Peter Pan & Wendy | Tinker Bell (Character) | - | 2023 |
82% |
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PAW Patrol: The Movie | Kendra Wilson (Voice) | $40.0M | 2021 |
No Score Yet |
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Fe@rLeSS_ | Melanie (Voice) | - | 2020 |
52% |
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The Sun Is Also a Star | Natasha Kingsley (Character) | $4.9M | 2019 |
76% |
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Smallfoot | Brenda (Voice) | $83.2M | 2018 |
11% |
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Alex Cross | Janelle Cross (Character) | $25.9M | 2012 |
35% |
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Butter | Destiny (Character) | $70.9K | 2011 |
42% |
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Imagine That | Olivia Danielson (Character) | $16.1M | 2009 |
TV
Credit | ||||
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No Score Yet | 28% | The Drew Barrymore Show | Guest | 2023-2024 |
No Score Yet | 44% | grown-ish |
Zoey Johnson (Character), Executive Producer |
2018-2024 |
No Score Yet | 44% | The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon | Guest | 2018-2021 2023 |
92% | 57% | black-ish |
Zoey Johnson (Character), Unknown (Voice) |
2014-2022 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Kids Tonight Show | Guest | 2021 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Thanks a Million | Self | 2020-2021 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Talk | Guest | 2018 2021 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Desus & Mero | Guest | 2021 |
No Score Yet | 61% | Late Night With Seth Meyers | Guest | 2021 |
100% | 88% | Amend: The Fight for America | Self | 2021 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Wilmore | Guest | 2020 |
No Score Yet | 42% | Jimmy Kimmel Live! | Guest | 2015 2017-2018 2020 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | To Tell the Truth | Guest | 2020 |
100% | 85% | Dear... | Self | 2020 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Daily Show | Guest | 2020 |
No Score Yet | 12% | The View | Guest | 2016 2018-2019 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Shatterbox | Director | 2019 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Ellen DeGeneres Show | Guest | 2018 |
No Score Yet | 86% | Explained | Narrator | 2018 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Oprah at the Apollo | Guest | 2018 |
No Score Yet | 50% | The Late Show With Stephen Colbert | Guest | 2018 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Harry | Guest | 2017 |
56% | 33% | Bad Teacher | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2014 |
93% | 72% | Scandal | Young Olivia Pope (Guest Star) | 2013 |
57% | 82% | The Finder | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2012 |
No Score Yet | 64% | Family Guy | Little Girl (Guest Voice) | 2011 |
0% | 47% | $..! My Dad Says | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2010 |
No Score Yet | 86% | Lie to Me | Olivia (Guest Star) | 2010 |
No Score Yet | 90% | Wizards of Waverly Place | Olive (Guest Star) | 2009 |
No Score Yet | 95% | Cold Case | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2009 |
16% | No Score Yet | In the Motherhood | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2009 |