Nazanin Boniadi

She is Nazanin Boniadi (Persian: نازنین بنیادی‎, born 22 May 1980), a British Iranian actress currently living and working in the United States.

Her first major acting role was as Leyla Mir on the Emmy Award-winning daytime drama General Hospital and its SOAPnet spin-off series General Hospital: Night Shift, making her the first contract actor to play a Middle Eastern character in American daytime television history. She is also the first Iranian-born actress to ever be on contract on an American soap opera.

She has nominated for an NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Actress in a Daytime Drama Series in 2008 for her role in General Hospital.

Her General Hospital character died from exposure to a biotoxin in February 2009.

She has also landed supporting roles in several major Hollywood film productions, such as Charlie Wilson's War directed by Mike Nichols, Iron Man directed by Jon Favreau, and The Next Three Days directed by Paul Haggis.

In February 2011, She debuted as Nora, a love interest for Neil Patrick Harris's character Barney Stinson, on the sixth season of the hitCBS sitcom How I Met Your Mother. She reprised this role during the show's seventh season.

In November 2011, She appeared opposite George Clooney in a European spot for Nespresso, called The Swap, directed by Grant Heslov.