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Sarah Shahi aspired to become an actress and joined the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders squad in 1999. Following year, she featured in the cover of the squad’s calendar. It was while working as an extra in ‘Dr T and the Women’ in Texas that she met director Robert Altman, who suggested her to move to Hollywood.