Lara Dalileh Wolf was born in Tehran and raised in Zurich to an Iranian mother and to a Swiss father. She was raised bilingually and started performing early in her life playing the violin, singing and acting. She continued studying psychology at the University of Zurich, while working as a model and TV host for StarTV (2011-2012). After graduation, she moved to New York to pursue acting at the Lee Strasberg Institute. She is signed with Buchwald in NYC and has recently appeared as a guest star on ABC's Quantico.