Kausar Mohammed is an American actress, comedian, and writer. She is best known for her roles in ''East of La Brea'', ''

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'', '' Little'' and voicing Yasmina 'Yaz' Fadoula in Netflix's ''

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''.

Life and career

Born in

San Jose, California San Jose, officially the City of San José ( ; ), is a cultural, commercial, and political center within Silicon Valley and the San Francisco Bay Area. With a city population of 997,368 and a metropolitan area population of 1.95 million, it is ...

, Mohammed is of Bengali and Pakistani descent. She graduated from

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and was a member of the UCLA Spring Sing Company. She has worked on and written many digital projects, such as "Smyle" and "Namaste" featured on

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, and

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. She is also California's Census Campaign Digital Ambassador. Kausar also voices series lead characters on the anime show '' Great Pretender'', and the Netflix animated series ''

''. In July 2022,

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announced that Kausar would voice the character Cleo de Nile in the 2022 animated reboot series ''

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''.

Personal life

Kausar identifies as

queer ''Queer'' is an umbrella term for people who are non-heterosexual or non- cisgender. Originally meaning or , ''queer'' came to be used pejoratively against LGBTQ people in the late 19th century. From the late 1980s, queer activists began to ...

and has a wife.

Filmography

References

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Mohammed, Kausar Living people American film actresses American people of Bangladeshi descent American people of Pakistani descent American queer actresses American stand-up comedians American television actresses American voice actresses American women comedians Entertainers from San Jose, California Writers from San Jose, California Year of birth missing (living people) 21st-century American actresses Comedians from California Queer comedians American LGBTQ comedians