Dina Shihabi

Dina Shihabi is a Saudi Arabian actress who works in the United States. Born in Riyadh and raised in Saudi Arabia, Beirut and Dubai, she began dance lessons at 11 with Sharmila Kamte at the Dubai Community Theatre and Arts Centre and joined her modern dance team. School plays led her teacher Nancy Mock to encourage her toward acting. At 18 she moved to New York City in 2007 and made acting a full-time profession by 2010. She studied at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts from 2008 to 2010 and earned an MFA from NYU in 2014, and she was the first Middle East-born woman accepted to both Juilliard and the NYU graduate acting program. In 2019 she was cast as Dig 301 in the second season of the Netflix science fiction series Altered Carbon.