Alizeh Keshvar Davis Jarrahy is the eldest child of actress Geena Davis and Dr. Reza Jarrahy, born April 10, 2002. She’s also, without fully realizing it as a child, part of the origin story behind one of her mother’s most significant projects outside acting: the Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media, which Davis has said in multiple interviews was directly inspired by watching how Alizeh responded to the media she grew up with.
| Field | Details |
| Born | April 10, 2002 |
| Parents | Geena Davis and Dr. Reza Jarrahy |
| Siblings | Twin brothers Kaiis Steven Jarrahy and Kian William Jarrahy (b. 2004) |
| Parents’ marriage | September 1, 2001; divorce finalized December 2021 |
| Known for | Eldest child of Geena Davis; cited inspiration for the Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media |
| Public profile | Private; occasional appearances at family events |
Alizeh is the first of three children born to Geena Davis and Reza Jarrahy, followed two years later by twin brothers Kaiis and Kian. Unlike her mother, who’s built a decades-long acting career including an Academy Award for The Accidental Tourist and iconic roles in Thelma & Louise and A League of Their Own, Alizeh has not pursued acting or sought public visibility in her own right. She’s been photographed at a handful of family events over the years, but has otherwise kept her personal and professional life private.
Geena Davis and Reza Jarrahy, a surgeon, married on September 1, 2001, after meeting through friends in 1999. Their relationship included one detail that became publicly notable during their eventual divorce proceedings: court documents from Jarrahy’s 2018 filing indicate the couple never obtained a marriage license, and Davis maintained in those filings that the marriage had never been legally binding, despite their two-decade relationship and three children together.
Jarrahy filed for divorce in May 2018, citing the couple’s separation in November 2017. The divorce was finalized in December 2021, closing out a relationship of roughly 20 years. As part of the settlement, the couple’s two minor children at the time (the twins) had their legal surnames changed from Davis-Jarrahy to Jarrahy, with “Davis” becoming a second middle name instead.
Alizeh’s younger brothers, twins Kaiis Steven Jarrahy and Kian William Jarrahy, were born in 2004, two years after their sister. Like Alizeh, both have maintained largely private lives outside of occasional family appearances at public events alongside their parents. Reza Jarrahy has shared occasional family photos publicly over the years, offering rare glimpses into the siblings’ relationship, but neither twin has pursued a public career or media presence of their own.
This is genuinely the most well-documented and publicly significant part of Alizeh’s story, one that Geena Davis herself has discussed on the record in major interviews, including with The New York Times in 2016. Asked directly why she founded her gender-in-media institute, Davis pointed to her daughter as the reason, explaining that watching Alizeh’s early experiences with children’s media made her newly aware of how few substantial female characters existed in the films and shows her daughter was growing up with.
That realization led Davis to found the Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media in 2004, an organization that has since conducted research and advocacy aimed at improving how women and girls are represented on screen. It’s a rare instance of a private family experience translating into a lasting, well-known public institution, and it’s arguably the reason Alizeh’s name shows up in coverage of her mother’s career at all, beyond simple family curiosity.
Alizeh has continued to live in the Los Angeles area, where she grew up, and has generally pursued interests connected to the entertainment industry’s creative and production side, rather than performing. She hasn’t taken on acting roles, doesn’t maintain a public social media presence, and has given no public interviews discussing her own life, education, or career in detail. What’s publicly known about her adult life comes almost entirely through her family’s occasional public appearances together, rather than anything she’s shared herself.
No. She hasn’t pursued acting or appeared in film or television productions, and has instead kept her career interests and personal life largely private.
This became a point of dispute during their divorce. Reza Jarrahy’s 2018 filing described a marriage dating to September 2001, but Davis stated in court documents that the couple never obtained a marriage license, meaning the union wasn’t legally binding despite their long relationship and three children together.
She has two younger brothers, twins Kaiis Steven Jarrahy and Kian William Jarrahy, born in 2004.
Geena Davis has said in multiple interviews, including with The New York Times, that watching her daughter’s early experiences with children’s entertainment directly inspired her to found the institute in 2004, making Alizeh’s childhood a genuine, publicly acknowledged part of the organization’s origin.
No confirmed public account is associated with her. She has maintained a private online presence and hasn’t shared personal updates publicly.
Alizeh Keshvar Davis Jarrahy’s own adult life remains, by her own apparent choice, largely private, and there’s little reason to treat that privacy as something to work around. What is genuinely part of the public record is her role, as a young child, in shaping her mother’s decision to found a lasting advocacy institution, a detail that says more about Geena Davis’s public work than it does about Alizeh’s private life today, and the more meaningful reason her name comes up at all.
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