About Sakina Jaffrey
Sakina Jaffrey (born February 14, 1962) is an American actress. Jaffrey may be best known for portraying Linda Vasquez in the Netflix original series House of Cards, and Denise Christopher in the NBC series Timeless. == Early life == Jaffrey was born in New York City, the youngest daughter of Indian-born parents, actress and food and travel writer Madhur Jaffrey, and actor Saeed Jaffrey. Her parents divorced when she was three years old, and she grew up estranged from her father, who subsequently moved to the United Kingdom. She grew up in the Greenwich Village section of Manhattan, where she attended PS 41. She later attended the Nightingale-Bamford School on the Upper East Side. Jaffrey picked up her love of Chinese culture from her elder sister, Meera. She graduated from Vassar College in 1984, with a major in Chinese Language and Literature, originally planning to be a translator before she became an actress. == Career == At the age of 17, Jaffrey made her professional acting debut in the play Marie and Bruce by Wallace Shawn at the Public Theatre in New York City. She appeared with her father in the film Masala (1991) and with her mother in The Perfect Murder (1988). Jaffrey is best known for portraying as Linda Vasquez in the Netflix original series House of Cards, and Denise Christopher in the NBC series Timeless.
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