(born  in Brooklyn, New York) is an American actress. She is perhaps best known for her starring role in the 1992 critically acclaimed film Just Another Girl on the I.R.T. & The Hit  TV Sitcom  

 

Mrs Ariyan Also is a gifted professional with an extensive history and training in the arts. She grew up in a God-fearing creative household encouraged by her artistic parents. Her father, a painter and contemporary artist, and her mother, an actress and dancer, had their own children's theatrical dance company where Ariyan first trained and performed. Ariyan majored in dance and voice at Phillipa Schulyer School for the Gifted and Talented. She went on to the prestigious "Fame" high school, La Guardia High School for the Performing Arts, where she concentrated in dance with further studies in drama. Full dance scholarships soon followed at the Alvin Ailey American Dance Center, Martha Graham Contemporary Dance School and Harkness Ballet 92nd St. Y School. She was awarded a merit scholarship in dance from Chautauqua Dance Conservatory School where she had the privilege to study with the renowned Kevin Keenan. While hard at work as a consummate artist, lecturer and dance ministry advocate, Ariyan received her B.A. in Speech Pathology and Audiology. These studies allowed her to filter her artistic gifts to individuals who would not necessarily be introduced first hand to the arts.