Yara Shahidi Named an Ambassador for the 25th Anniversary Screen Actors Guild Awards®

LOS ANGELES – The multifaceted Yara Shahidi has been named an Ambassador for the 25th Anniversary Screen Actors Guild Awards®. In this role, she will participate in various SAG Awards® pre-show events and share her insider’s view via social media. Shahidi joins Harry Shum Jr., who was previously announced as a SAG Awards Ambassador, in this special celebratory role.

Audiences can expect Shahidi to post her first-hand experiences of SAG Awards news and behind-the-scenes impressions of the production during the crucial days leading up to the show. Yara Shahidi has previously attended the SAG Awards twice as a Comedy Ensemble Nominee with her fellow cast members from black-ish. The 25th Annual SAG Awards will be simulcast live on Sunday, Jan. 27, 2019 on TNT and TBS at 8 p.m. ET / 5 p.m. PT.

Yara Shahidi
Yara Shahidi features in the multiple SAG Awards, Emmy® and Golden Globe® -nominated ABC series black-ish as the ambitious, popular and technologically infatuated student Zoey Johnson. Shahidi now stars as the same character in the show’s Freeform spin-off grown-ish, which sees Zoey transition from high school to higher education and impending adulthood, while recurrently appearing in black-ish as well. The second season of grown-ish premiered on Jan. 2, 2019.

Shahidi’s first major break was being cast opposite Eddie Murphy in Paramount’s heartwarming comedy Imagine That (2009). Other credits include: Sony Pictures’ Unthinkable (2010); Columbia Pictures’ Salt (2010); Summit Entertainment’s Alex Cross (2012); and the Michael De Luca Productions / Weinstein Co. film Butter (2011). Shahidi will next be seen starring in the Warner Bros. coming-of-age romance The Sun Is Also a Star.

Yara Shahidi – actor, model and activist – can be found online at yarashahidi.com and as @yarashahidi on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook.

About SAG-AFTRA

SAG-AFTRA represents approximately 160,000 actors, announcers, broadcast journalists, dancers, DJs, news writers, news editors, program hosts, puppeteers, recording artists, singers, stunt performers, voiceover artists and other entertainment and media professionals. SAG-AFTRA members are the faces and voices that entertain and inform America and the world. A proud affiliate of the AFL-CIO, SAG-AFTRA has national offices in Los Angeles and New York and local offices nationwide representing members working together to secure the strongest protections for entertainment and media artists into the 21st century and beyond. Visit SAG-AFTRA online at SAGAFTRA.org.