Her favorite actors/actresses are Louise Brooks, Renée Jeane Falconetti, Rowan Atkinson, and Ava Gardner.
Has a Persian father and a German/English/Scottish mother.
Thanks to a very devoted mother who took her every two weeks to the local library from the ages of two to sixteen, she is a voracious reader. Her favorite writers are Flannery O'Connor, Theodore Dreiser, and Charles Bukowski.
Acting since the age of 6. Her first role was in a elementary school Christmas pageant playing Ebenezar Scrooge.