Jaz Masri

Jaz Masri is an actress from America. The original name of Jaz Masri is Yasmine Al Massri. Jaz is also a dancer by profession. Jaz was born on 21 November, 1978. The birth-place of Jaz is Lebanon while she moved to Paris for studies when she was 20. Jaz Masri is the daughter of a Palestinian man and an Egyptian woman. Jaz got married to Michael Desante. Michael Desante also belongs to Media World. He is a director by profession. Jaz with Michael has a son named Liam Desante (2012).

Jaz with her husband and son lives in Los Angeles, California. Jaz has done her graduation in Multimedia and Live Performances from National School of Fine Arts, Paris (2007). Jaz was interested in the media industry, so after her education, she started her career as a dancer in Souraya Baghdadi Dance Company. Initially, she follows great choreographers, while afterwards she created her own style and directed herself in many videos.In 2007, Jaz debuted in the film industry with a film named ‘Caramel’ (written and directed by Nadine Labaki) which is a comedy-drama movie with an LGBT theme.

Jaz for her first film won Best Actress Award at Abu Dhabi International Film and was nominated for Best Female Performance at Asia Pacific Screen Award in the same year. In 2008, Jaz played a lead role with Hiam Abbass in ‘Pomegranates and Myrrh’, which was directed by Najwa al-Najjar. For her awesome performance in this film, Jaz won Youssef Chahine Best Actress Award at Rabat International Film Festival. In 2010, Jaz with her other co-actor (Vanessa Redgrave, Hiam Abbas, Frieda Pinto and William Dafoe) acted in Julian Schnabel’s film ‘ Miral Bio Coming Soon... >> Read More... ,’ which was internationally acclaimed. In 2011, she was in Yahya Alabdallah directed movie ‘The Last Friday.’

This movie has won the Best Movie Award at Dubai International Film Festival in the same year. In 2014, she debuted with a drama and adventure series‘Crossbones’ in American Television.‘Crossbones’was based on the book ‘The Republic of Pirates’, which was created by Neil Cross, James V. Hart, and Amanda Welles. In 2015, she played the role of identical twins Nimah and Raina Amin in Quantico. Quantico made her famous worldwide because of international stars, Priyanka Chopra Born on 18 July 1982, Priyanka Chopra is an establ >> Read More... and Aunjanue Ellis who were in same thriller series.

After Quantico series, Jaz was called as Priyanka Chopra’s Quantico bestie when she visited India with Priyanka Chopra. Jaz can fluently speak many languages like English, French, Arabic, Spanish and also a language spoken by the people of Sub-Saharan Africa. Jaz is Lebanese-born but has the nationality of French and United States.