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Kelly Severide on NBC's show Chicago Fire in October 2012. Shahi was cast as a recurring love interest for Taylor Kinney's character Lt. The show was cancelled after two seasons in November 2012.

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The series title was later changed to Fairly Legal.

The show followed the life of Kate Reed, a legal mediator who is frustrated with the bureaucracy and injustice she witnesses in the legal system. In October 2009, Shahi landed the lead role in the USA Network pilot, Facing Kate.

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In 2007, she took on her first permanent leading role on a TV series, co-starring with Damian Lewis in the NBC series Life as homicide detective Dani Reese. In 2007, she secured a small role in Rush Hour 3 as Zoe, a scantily clad rich girl who is pursued by Chris Tucker's character, Detective Carter. She played Farah in the second season of Sleeper Cell, and also appeared in HBO's The Sopranos in 2007, in the Season 6b episode ' Kennedy and Heidi' as Sonya Aragon, a stripper and college student who spends a weekend with Tony after a death in his family. She ranked number 5 on the hot list in 2007. She appeared on the cover of Maxim 's 2012 'TV's Hottest Girls' Issue in October 2012. Shahi was named number 90 on the Maxim 'Hot 100 of 2005' list, moving up to number 66 in 2006 and 36 in 2012. Shahi's two-year contract was not renewed after the end of the fourth season, and her character was written out. In 2005 she appeared in the supporting character role of DJ Carmen de la Pica Morales on The L Word, which she joined in its second season. T and the Women in Texas, Shahi met director Robert Altman, who encouraged her to move to Hollywood, where she received roles in several series, including Alias, Dawson's Creek, Reba, and Supernatural. While working as an extra on the set of Dr. Shahi at the 2012 Monte-Carlo Television Festival Hoping to become an actress, she joined the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders (1999–2000) squad despite not having cheered before. Shahi won the Miss Fort Worth pageant in 1997. She was a member of Alpha Chi Omega during her time at SMU. Shahi attended Trinity High School, where she was captain of the volleyball and basketball teams, and Southern Methodist University, majoring in English and Theater. Shahi's parents began entering her in beauty pageants at the age of eight. At her father's behest, she grew up speaking Persian, in addition to English. Shahi adopted Sarah as her name in second grade after hearing a song called 'Sarah' because she was 'tormented' by other children about her birth name, Aahoo.

Her birth name, Aahoo ( Persian: آهو), means ' gazelle' in Persian.

Shahi has an older brother, Cyrus, and a younger sister, Samantha, who is a production assistant. Her mother was born in Spain, to an Iranian father and a Spanish mother. Her father, who was working at the American embassy in Iran, was slated for execution when the last Shah's regime collapsed in 1979, but was able to flee the country. Her father's family left Iran two years before the Iranian Revolution. She is the daughter of Abbas Jahansouzshahi and Mahmonir Soroushazar, an interior designer, who divorced when she was ten. Sarah Shahi was born Aahoo Jahansouzshahi on ( )Januand raised in Euless, Texas, U.S.

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