- Tala Ashe is an Iranian-American actress nominated for a Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play in 2024 in the Pulitzer-Prize winning play "English." For five years, Tala was a series regular on "DC's Legends of Tomorrow" playing "Zari Tomaz," the first Muslim-American superhero on television. Her other TV work includes recurring roles on the upcoming "Maximum Pleasure Guaranteed" for Apple TV, "CIA" for CBS, "Girls on the Bus" for HBO, on "Smash" and "American Odyssey" both for NBC, as well as a host of guest starring roles. Tala has worked at numerous off-Broadway and regional theaters including: The Atlantic Theater, The Public Theater, Playwrights Horizons, Lincoln Center Theater, Playco, Clubbed Thumb, The Old Globe and Oregon Shakespeare Festival. Ashe speaks fluent Farsi and received a BFA in Acting from Boston University, with training from the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts and UCB theater.
- IMDb mini biography by: cg
- Gender / Gender identityFemale
- Pronounsshe/her
- Race / EthnicityMiddle Eastern / North African
- Born in Iran, she later lived in New York City.
- Outside of acting, she has worked as the producer for the podcast That's What She Said hosted by Therese Barbato.
- In 2017, she joined Victor Garber and Brandon Routh in the cast of Legends of Tomorrow.
- Actress who got her start playing Ameera Ali Aziz in As the World Turns. She later went on to earn recurring roles in Smash as R.J. Quigley, American Odyssey as Anna Stone, and Legends of Tomorrow as Zari Tomaz.
- One of her first acting roles was as Nadia in the 2008 feature film Waiting in Beijing.
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