'Black-ish' Star Yara Shahidi, An Unofficial Ambassador For Gen Z
Yara Shahidi is not all like the character she plays on ABC's Black-ish. But the actor and her character have hit a lot of the same milestones at the same time.
by Leah Donnella
May 03, 2017
2 minutes
In some ways, Yara Shahidi is a lot like Zoey Johnson, the character she plays on ABC's comedy Black-ish. Yahidi, like Johnson, is a 17 year old high school student with several younger siblings, so the two have hit some of the same social and familial milestones at the same time.
In other ways, Shahidi and Johnson couldn't
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