Nazanin Boniadi is Iranian born, British-American actress, and activist. She fame rose to prominence, portraying the character of Leyla Mir on the Emmy Award-winning daytime drama General Hospital and General Hospital: Night Shift, its SOAPnet-spinoff. Her appearance in the show made her the first actor to play a Middle Eastern character in American daytime TV and also the first t Iranian born to be contracted in an American soap opera.
