Sarah Shahi - USA Network's 2012 Upfront in New York May 17, 2012

Aahoo Jahansouz Shahi, also known as Sarah Shahi (born January 10, 1980, in Euless, Texas, U.S.), is an American actress and model of Iranian and Spanish descent & former NFL Cheerleader and a great-great-granddaughter of the 19th century Persian Shah Fath Ali Shah Qajar by Begom Khanom. Shahi was named #90 on the Maxim magazine “Hot 100 of 2005? list; she moved up to #66 in 2006.

She is best known for her role as the Mexican-American DJ Carmen de la Pica Morales in the Showtime drama television series The L Word, which she joined in its second season. She also appeared in HBO’s The Sopranos, in the Season 6 episode “Kennedy and Heidi,” as Sonya Aragon, a stripper and college student who spends a weekend with Tony after a death in his family. Sarah speaks English, Persian, and some Spanish, and has a Brown belt in Karate.