Sarah Shahi was born on January 10, 1980 in Euless, Texas, to Abbas Jahansouz Shahi and Mah Monir Soroush Azar. While her father was from Iran, her mother was an Iranian-Spanish born in Spain. Sarah has an elder brother Cyrus and an older sister Samantha. Sarah was named Aahoo which means ‘gazelle’ in Persian. It was in the second grade that she changed her name to Sarah after a song. The name change was a conscious decision as she was ridiculed by her friends. Sarag was ten when her parents divorced.
