Wikipedia Draft:Jewell Farshad

Jewell Negin Farshad is an Iranian-American actress and model. She was born in Tehran,Iran. From a young age, she found her passion as a performing artist. She was immediately fascinated by the stage and performing in theater. Starting at age 9, Jewell knew she wanted to be a professional actress and model.

However, Pursuing that dream in the Islamic dogma of Iran was unattainable since women are banned from modeling and discouraged from acting. Women were briefly forbidden from acting after the Iranian Revolution of 1978-1979 until the late '90s in Iran.

Career:
Against all odds, Jewell managed to move to LA to pursue her career in acting. This was no easy task, as she knew moving to the states meant that she had to leave behind her beloved family and country.Deep down however she knew there was no possible way that she could grow as an artist and actress in such a limiting environment, especially in a country that constantly suppressed and degraded women like her. Jewell continued her education at Otis/Parsons art University while simultaneously cultivating her modeling and acting career in Los Angele, California.After many years of hard work and hustling, Jewell has gone on to work with such well-known Brands as revole, Amanda Uprichard,Maggie Barry, Beach Bunny and more. As if that was not enough, Jewell somehow found the time to complete in the Ms.California United States Pageant system... and win!(G)