Sure, she made a name for herself on shows like JAG and Army Wives, but more importantly, she was both Meryl Streep and Isabella Rossellini's body double in Death Becomes Her! She actually met her now ex-husband on-set!

Aghdashloo is the first Iranian woman to be nominated for an Oscar. She got the nod in 2009 for her role in The House of Sand and Fog opposite Sir Ben Kingsley.

Pierre Omidyar founded Ebay at the age of 28. We suddenly feel very, very lazy.

Sooo, Michael Steger, the actor that plays nice guy Navid Shirazi, is actually of Ecuadorian, Austrian, and Norwegian descent. But, his character is one of the few representations of Persian youth on T.V. -- a must in a show about life in Beverly Hills.

Loved Chris Christie's Hurricane Sandy sign-language interpreter on 'SNL'? Yeah -- that was Nassim.

Technically, Agassi is of Assyrian and Armenian descent on his father's side, but his father did represent Iran as an Olympic boxer.

We love Tori Spelling's real best friend, Mehran too, but Zachary Quinto's homage to Mehran in the short-lived series, So NoTORIous was just too good.

We have it on good authority that Mrs. Jacques Torres is as sweet as her confections. Fun fact: the chocolate Louboutins featured in The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills Season 1 were purchased at her shop in L.A.!

Although an accomplished stand-up comic, Djalili is probably best known in the U.S. for his role on NBC's Whoopi.

The CNN Chief International Correspondent for is Rory Gilmore's role model -- and that's good enough for us.

He's our hero. (Har-har)

As anchor of CNn Headline News Tonight, Backhtiar (born "Rudabeh") is the first Iranian-American journalist to anchor a prime time news hour in the United States.