Yara Shahidi is an American actress. She starred as Zoey Johnson in the ABC sitcom black-ish and its spin-off grown-ish. Shahidi also played the younger version of Olivia Pope in several flashback scenes on Scandal. She has appeared in films such as Imagine That, The Sun Is Also a Star, Peter Pan & Wendy, and the Apple Original series Extrapolations. Shahidi also starred in and produced the film Sitting In Bars With Cake.