Dina Shihabi

Dina Shihabi is a Saudi Arabian actress working in the United States, known for her roles in Jack Ryan, Altered Carbon and Archive 81. ¹ The English article names no religion or school for her, so her data record leaves her faith as unknown. ¹

She was born on 21 September 1989 in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, and was raised in Saudi Arabia, Beirut and Dubai. ¹ She described her background as Arab European: her father Ali Shihabi, a commentator on Saudi politics and former banker who chaired Saudi Hollandi Bank, is half-Saudi and half-Norwegian, and her mother Nadia is half-Arab, half-German and Haitian, raised in France. ¹ She began dance lessons at 11 with Sharmila Kamte at the Dubai Community Theatre and Arts Centre and joined her professional dance team, attended Al Mawakeb School, Emirates International School and Dubai American Academy, and was encouraged by her teacher Nancy Mock to act. ¹

At 18 she moved to New York City in 2007 and made acting her full-time profession in 2010; she attended the American Academy of Dramatic Arts for two years, and in 2011 was accepted into both the Juilliard School and the graduate acting program at NYU Tisch. ¹ NYU waived its bachelor's-degree requirement for her, and she graduated with her MFA in 2014 — the first Middle East-born woman accepted into both Juilliard and NYU's graduate acting programs, and the first Saudi Arabian woman accepted to them. ¹

Her first major film role was Amira Jafari in Amira & Sam (2014), after an early appearance in David (2011). ¹ On television she played Hijriyyah Al Bouri in Madam Secretary (2016), Hanin Suleiman as a main role in the first season of Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan (2018), Neda Kazemi in Daredevil (2018), Nour in Ramy (2019), and Dig 301 as a main role in the second season of Netflix's Altered Carbon (2020). ¹ She starred as Melody Pendras in Netflix's Archive 81 (2022), and appeared in 2023 as Amaya in Catching Dust, Lena in Ghosts of Beirut, and Britt Hufford in the miniseries Painkiller. ¹ In September 2025 she signed the Film Workers for Palestine pledge concerning Israeli film institutions. ¹

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