Nadia Yassir

Nadia Yassir
24 character
Marisol Nichols as Nadia Yassir
First appearance	Day 6 – Episode 1
Last appearance	Day 6 – Episode 24
Portrayed by	Marisol Nichols
Days	6
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Significant other(s)	Mike Doyle Milo Pressman

Mike Doyle

Nadia Yassir (Urdu: نادیہ ياسر‎) is a fictional character from the TV series 24 played by Marisol Nichols. Introduced in Season 6, she works for the Counter Terrorist Unit at Los Angeles, a fictional domestic branch of the Central Intelligence Agency. For a short time in the sixth season, she replaces Bill Buchanan as the Director of CTU after he is fired.

Marisol Nichols got the role after auditioning for the show four times including for the roles of Carrie Turner, Michelle Dessler and Claudia, Jack's love-interest in the third season. The character was initially to be named Natalie Barnes, but executive producer Howard Gordon decided to make the character Pakistani American a week before the shooting the sixth season of 24.

In contrast to the South Asian Muslim character she portrays, the actress is of Hungarian and Romanian descent from her paternal side and Mexican and Spanish on her mother's, and does not have any ancestry from Pakistan, other South Asian Muslim countries, or the Arab world. She has stated that her olive toned skin and dark hair allows her to play characters of many nationalities.