Boniadi is no stranger to television having played diverse characters throughout her career. The 42-year-old actress played Leyla Mir for 118 episodes of General Hospital starting in 2007, being nominated for an NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Actress in a Daytime Drama Series. Next, she found greater fame as Nora in 10 episodes of the hit sitcom How I Met Your Mother (2011) and has also appeared in Homeland (2013), Scandal (2014) and Counterpart (2017).
