Personal info
Known for
Actor
Gender
Female
Birthday
22 September
Location
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Edit pageDina Shihabi
Biography
Dina Shihabi ( born September 21, 1989) is a Saudi Arabian actress working in the United States.
At age 18, Shihabi moved to New York City in 2007 and began pursuing a career in acting; this became a full-time profession for her in 2010. She attended the American Academy of Dramatic Arts for two years. In 2011, she was accepted at both Juilliard and The Graduate Acting Program at NYU Tisch School for the Arts.
Although Shihabi did not complete a 4-year bachelor's degree (she attended the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, an Acting Conservatory from 2008 to 2010), NYU waived the requirement of a bachelor's degree, and she graduated with her MFA in 2014. She is the first Middle East-born woman to be accepted to both the Juilliard and NYU Graduate Acting programs, as well as the first Saudi Arabian woman accepted to these institutions.
In February 2019, it was announced that Shihabi was cast in the main role of Dig 301 for the second season of Netflix's science-fiction series, Altered Carbon.
