Who is Sara Ramírez?

Who is Sara Ramírez?  The entertainment and acting world knows her as a Mexican-American actress and singer. She is known for her role as Callie Torres in Grey's Anatomy(2006–present) and as the original Lady of the Lake in the 2005 Broadway musical Spamalot, for which she won the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical.

Early life

Ramírez was born August 31, 1975 in Mazatlán, Sinaloa, a beach resort on the Pacific coast of Mexico. Her father was Mexican and her mother was half Mexican and half Irish-American.[citation needed]Ramírez moved with her mother at age eight to Tierrasanta, in San Diego, California. After graduating from the San Diego School of Creative and Performing Arts in San Diego, California, she graduated from the Juilliard School in New York City, where she refined her skills as an actress.[1] Ramírez speaks both Spanish and English fluently.


  Career  
She debuted on Broadway playing Wahzinak in Paul Simon's The Capeman (1998). In 1999, she appeared in The Gershwins' Fascinating Rhythm (1999) and received an Outer Critics Circle Award nomination for her role. She has also appeared in A Class Act (2001) andDreamgirls (2001), and she performed in The Vagina Monologues with Tovah Feldshuh and Suzanne Bertish.

  In 1998, she played the voice of Lammy in the video game UmJammer Lammy, a spin-off of PaRappa the Rapper, both on Sony's PlayStationconsole. She later reprised her role as Lammy in the PlayStation 2 video game sequel PaRappa the Rapper 2, and has a smaller role, unlike the game that preceded it.

  
In 2004, Ramírez was cast as the Lady of the Lake in the Eric Idle/John Du Prez musical Spamalot, based on the 1975 film Monty Python and the Holy Grail. The musical opened on Broadway in 2005 to widespread acclaim, and Ramírez in particular was singled out for her performance, winning several awards including the 2005 Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical.


Following her success on Broadway, Ramírez joined the cast of Grey's Anatomy in a recurring role as Dr. Calliope 'Callie' Torres in the show's second season. For the third season she became a series regular. On a special Grey's Anatomy-themed episode of The Oprah Winfrey Show, she revealed that top executives from ABC loved her performance in Spamalot so much that they offered her a role in any ABC show she wanted. She picked Grey's, of which she was a fan.[2] While Ramírez has never performed a musical number on the show, she did provide a cappella vocals in the song "Silent Night" for the soundtrack of the show's sixth season episode "Holidaze," airing November 19, 2009. On December 21, 2009, this version of the song was released as a single on iTunes. Her first solo release is an extended playscheduled for a March 27, 2011 release through the iTunes Store. It will reportedly include three original songs, as well as a recording of a song scheduled to be performed on Grey's Anatomy.[3]

  Filmography

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1998	You've Got Mail	Rose
1999	UmJammer Lammy	Lammy	voice
2000	Spin City	Carol	1 episode
	Third Watch	Gwen Girard	1 episode
	Welcome to New York	Linda	1 episode
	Law & Order: Special Victims Unit	Mrs. Barrera	1 episode
2001	PaRappa the Rapper 2	Lammy	voice
2002	Spider-Man	Police officer at carjacking
	Washington Heights	Belkis
	Baseball Wives	Gabriella Martinez
	Law & Order: Special Victims Unit	Lisa Perez	1 episode
	Chicago	Female ensemble
2003	As the World Turns	Hannah	1 episode
	When Ocean Meets Sky	Peggy Fears	voice
2004	NYPD Blue	Irma Pacheco	1 episode
2006–present	Grey's Anatomy	Dr. Callie Torres	88 episodes

Stage productions

Year	Title	Role	Theatre
1998	The Capeman	Wahzinak	Marquis Theatre
1999	The Gershwins' Fascinating Rhythm		Longacre Theatre
	The Vagina Monologues		Westside Theatre
2001	A Class Act	Felicia	Ambassador Theatre
	Dreamgirls		Ford Center for the Performing Arts
2005	Spamalot	The Lady of the Lake	Shubert Theatre

Discography

• 2009 Silent Night^[4]
• 2011 Sara Ramirez EP^[5]

Awards and nominations

Year	Award	Category	Film or series	Result
2005	Tony Award	Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Musical	Monty Python's Spamalot	Won
2005	Outer Critics Circle Award	Outstanding featured Actress in a Musical	Monty Python's Spamalot	Won
2007	Imagen Foundation Awards	Best Supporting Actress - Television	Grey's Anatomy	Nominated
2007	Screen Actors Guild Award	Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series	Grey's Anatomy	Won
2007	ALMA Awards	Outstanding Actress in a Drama Television Series	Grey's Anatomy	Nominated
2008	ALMA Awards	Outstanding Actress in a Drama Television Series	Grey's Anatomy	Nominated
2008	Screen Actors Guild Award	Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series	Grey's Anatomy	Nominated
2011	Image Awards	Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series	Grey's Anatomy	Nominated

 

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Who is Aahoo Jahansouz Shahi?

Who is Aahoo Jahansouz Shahi? The entertainment and acting world knows her as Sarah Shahi, she is an American-born actress of Spanish and Iranian descent.[2] A former NFL Cheerleader, Shahi was named #90 on the Maxim magazine "Hot 100 of 2005" list; she moved up to #66 in 2006.[3] She also ranked Rank No. 5 on the AfterEllen.com hot list in 2007.[4] She is probably best known for starring in The L Word as Carmen de la Pica Morales and Life as Detective Dani Reese. She is currently starring as Kate Reed in the 2011 legal drama Fairly Legal on the USA Network.

Early life

Sarah Shahi was born January 10, 1980, and grew up in Euless, Texas,[1] to an Iranian father, Abbas Shahi, and a Spanish mother, known as Mahmonir who was an interior designer.[5][6] She has an older brother, Cyrus, and a younger sister Samantha.[citation needed] She is a great-great-granddaughter of the 19th century Iranian king Fath Ali Shah Qajar. Sarah's family was forced to leave their homeland two years before the political and social unrest caused by the Islamic Revolution.[7][8] Her birthname, Aahoo, means "gazelle" in Persian.[9]

Shahi adopted Sarah as her name in second grade after hearing the song "Sarah" because "I got tormented" by other children,[1] but grew up speaking Persian as well as English at her father’s insistence. Shahi's parents began entering her in beauty pageants at the age of eight.[8]Her parents divorced when she was 10.[9] Shahi attended Trinity High School, where she was captain of the volleyball and basketball teams, and Dallas' Southern Methodist University, majoring in English and Theater. Shahi won the Miss Fort Worth USA pageant in 1997; hoping to become an actress, she joined the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders 1999–2000 squad despite not having cheered before, and appeared on the cover of the squad's 2000 calendar before moving to Los Angeles.[1]

Acting career

While working as an extra on the set of Dr. T and the Women in Texas, Shahi met director Robert Altman, who encouraged her to move toHollywood,[1] where she received roles in several series, including Alias, Dawson's Creek, Reba, and Supernatural. She may be best-known for her role as DJ Carmen de la Pica Morales on The L Word, which she joined in its second season.[citation needed] Shahi did not renew her contract with the series for the fourth season, and consequently her character was written out.[10] She also played Farah in the second season of Sleeper Cell, and also appeared in HBO's The Sopranos, in the Season 6b episode "Kennedy and Heidi".

She co-starred in the short-lived NBC series Life as homicide detective Dani Reese.[1][11]

In October 2009, Shahi landed the lead role in the USA Network pilot, Facing Kate. Shahi began filming in November 2009.[12] On March 15, 2010, it was announced that USA Network had ordered eleven more episodes of the series. The show will follow the life of Kate Reed, a top litigator who is frustrated with the bureaucracy and injustice she witnesses in legal system. The series title was later changed to Fairly Legal.[13] The series began airing on USA in January 2011.[14]

On February 3, 2010, Shahi appeared on an episode ("Thrill Seekers and Hell Raisers") of Psych,[15] playing Burton Guster's new girlfriend. Her husband Steve Howey also guest-starred in the same episode.

Shahi is currently working on Untitled Beatle Boyin Project as "Carla".[16] She also will be playing "Hattie Skunk/Hattie Rockworth", a leading role in the upcoming film East Fifth Bliss.[17]

Personal life

She lived with her mother after her parents divorced. She has a brown belt in karate. She is married to actor Steve Howey, whom she met when she guest starred on Reba. They were engaged in June 2007 while vacationing in Hawaii, and married on February 7, 2009 in Las Vegas. On July 9, 2009, their first child was born. They reside in Los Angeles, California.

Filmography     

Film
Year	Film	Role	Other notes
2000	Dr. T and the Women	Cheerleader	Uncredited
2003	Old School	Erica
2003	Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde	Becky, Delta Nu sister	Uncredited
2005	A Lot Like Love	Starlet
2006	For Your Consideration	Sanchez
2006	The Dog Problem	Candy
2007	Rush Hour 3	Zoe	Uncredited
2008	Shades of Ray	Sana Khaliq
2008	AmericanEast	Salwah
2009	Crossing Over	Pooneh Baraheri
2011	East Fifth Bliss	Hattie Skunk / Hattie Rockworth	Post-production
Television
Year	Title	Role	Notes
2000	City Guys	Cheerleader	Episode: "Shock Treatment"
2000	Spin City	Bachelorette	Episode: "Blind Faith"
2001	Boston Public	Laura	Episode: "Chapter Eleven"
2001	Off Centre	Angelica	Episode: "A Cute Triangle"
2001	Maybe It's Me	Rosa	Episode: "The Exchange-Student Episode"
2001–2002	Alias	Jenny	Episodes: "So It Begins", "A Broken Heart", "Reckoning", "Color Blind", "Spirit", "The Box: Part 1", and "Page 47"
2002	Class of ‘06	Meg	Television movie
2002	My Adventures in Television	TV Diva	Episode: "The Chinese Baby"
2003	Frasier	Reservationist	Episode: "Door Jam"
2003	Dawson's Creek	Sadie Shaw / Mystery Girl	Episodes: "Catch-22", "Sex and Violence", and "All the Right Moves"
2003	ER	Tara King	Episode: "The Greater Good"
2004	Century City	Ms. Morris	Episode: "Sweet Child of Mine"
2004–2007	Reba	Bridget / Kate	Episodes: "Cheyenne‘s Rival" and "To Tell You the Truth"
2004	The Jamie Kennedy Experiment	Herself	Episode: "3.13"
2005	Plan B	Bronwyn	Television movie
2005	Supernatural	Constance Welch / The Woman in White	Episode: "Pilot"
2005–2009	The L Word	Carmen de la Pica Morales	Main character
2005	The Drop	Herself	Episode: "2.49"
2006	Teachers	Tina Torres	Television movie
2006	Sleeper Cell	Farrah	Episodes: "Faith" and "Torture"
2007	The Sopranos	Sonya Aragon	Episode: "Kennedy and Heidi"
2007–2009	Life	Dani Reese	Main character
2007	Last Call with Carson Daly	Herself	Episode: "September 14, 2007"
2007–2009	Entertainment Tonight	Herself	Episodes: "August 30, 2007" and "March 3, 2009"
2008	The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson	Herself	Episode: "5.54"
2010	Psych	Ruby	Episode: "Thrill Seekers and Hell Raisers"
2011	Fairly Legal	Kate Reed	Main character
2011	The Wendy Williams Show	Herself	Episode: "January 20, 2011"

 

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