Nazanin Boniadi

British-Iranian Actress

Profile
Birth name           Nazanin Boniadi
Birth date            May 22, 1980
Birth place          Tehran, Iran 
Occupation         Actress and Activist 

Biography
Nazanin Boniadi نازنین بنیادی,  is a British-Iranian actress currently living and working in the US. Nazanin Boniadi was born in Tehran, Iran. Her parents moved to London when she was an infant. She performed violin and ballet as a young girl. She was educated at a private high school and later moved to the US 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.