Mozhan Marnò

 Mozhan Marno (born May 3 1981) is an American TV and film actress with Iranian descent. Marno is well-known for her roles in House of Cards and The Blacklist. Her parents are Iranian , and she met her husband in California. She attended Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts. She received her BA in French and German Comparative Literature from Barnard College of Columbia University as well as her MFA Acting from Yale School of Drama. She lives in Brooklyn, New York. She is fluent in English, French, German and Persian. In addition she has had roles in a number of television series such as The Paul Reiser Show, The Glades, Hung, The Mentalist, Bones, The Unit, Medium, K-ville and Standoff. Marno also appeared on the Untitled John Wells Medical Drama Pilot that was never shown. She also appeared in Ana Lily's directorial debut, A Girl Walks Home Alone in the Night, produced by Elijah Wood, under his company, The Woodshed. In 2011, Marno voiced Mirabelle Ervine, the Breton wizard and master of the College of Winterhold, in the critically acclaimed video game The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim.She can be seen as reporter Ayla Sayyad on seasons 2 and 3 of the highly acclaimed Netflix series House of Cards and as Mossad agent and assassin Samar Navabi in seasons 2, 3, 4 and 5 of The Blacklist.