Sammy Durrani

Sammy is a U.S. Army officer in the Medical Service Corps who works as an actor, producer, and company commander. Her Boston University education includes a B.A., an M.S., and coursework at William Esper in New York Click to look into! >> Read More... and Ivana Chubbuck in Los Angeles. Her family's ancestors are Pashtun from Kandahar, Afghanistan (paternal & maternal) and Russo-Turkic from Tashkent, Uzbekistan (paternal). They are from the Durrani clan of the Popalzai and Yusufzai tribes. Three generations ago, they traveled to British India with the overthrown king Shah Shuja Durrani. Her family enlisted in the British Army, moving to military bases in Ambala, Punjab, Rampur, U.P., and Lucknow, UP (maternal) (paternal). One of my paternal grandfathers was serving at a camp for the British Army in Peshawar when he was killed in action.

The family relocated after the partition, settling in Peshawar, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, and Khairpur, Interior Sindh. In 1970, her parents immigrated to the country as first-year students. Her Father attended LIU at C.W. Post Medical College in New York. Her Mother attended Boston's Tufts University. Sammy, born in Boston, enlisted in the American Army Medical Service Corps following graduation. She is a Prior Enlisted NCO and Commissioned Officer. She is fluent in Spanish. She has made appearances in numerous Latino productions both in English and Spanish over the years on networks like Univision. She oversees Sirgood Films and Burkhan Asena Media (BAM) Productions, the media arm of Burkhan World Investments.

She and her family are residents of Los Angeles, California. She has appeared in advertisements for Pepsi, Dannon Yogurt, Ariel Laundry Detergent, Skol, Dos Equis, and many other brands in the US, Rio De Janeiro, Brazil, and Beirut, Lebanon. She enjoys gathering both swords and literature. A certified cognitive hypnotherapist, she is. She once served as a therapist in the renowned psychologist and hypnotherapist Dr. Luca Bosurgi's mental health facility. Her birth name is Saima, which is pronounced Sigh-meh and has Turkish origins. The moniker Sammy has been used since youth. She has training in shooting with a rifle and a handgun and rides horses.