Nazanin Boniadi
| Nazanin Boniadi | |
|---|---|
| Born |
22 May 1980 Tehran, Iran |
| Residence | Los Angeles |
| Occupation | Actress, activist |
| Years active | 2006–present |
| Website | nazaninboniadi |
Nazanin Boniadi (English /ˈnɑːzəniːn ˈboʊnjɑːˌdiː/ Persian: نازنین بنیادی, IPA: [nɑzæˈniːn ɛ bonjɑˈdiː]; born 22 May 1980) is an Iranian-American actress.
Boniadi was born in Tehran at the height of the Iranian Revolution; her parents relocated to London shortly thereafter. She performed violin and ballet as a young girl.
She attended a private high school and later moved to the United States where she earned a bachelor's degree, with Honors, in Biological Sciences from the University of California, Irvine. At UCI, she won the Chang Pin-Chun Undergraduate Research Award for molecular research involving cancer treatment and heart transplant rejection. She was also Assistant Editor-in-Chief of MedTimes, UCI's undergraduate medical newspaper.
Boniadi changed her career path from science and started pursuing acting in 2006. Her first major acting role was as Leyla Mir on the Emmy Award-winning daytime drama General Hospital and its SOAPnet spin-off series General Hospital: Night Shift, making her the first contract actor to play a Middle Eastern character in American daytime television history. She is also the first actress born in Iran to ever be on contract on an American soap opera.
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