Iranian American writer, actress, director, singer and songwriter born in Dubai, United Arab Emirates to Iranian parents. She later moved to Canada, studied psychology at York University and the University of Western Ontario in London. She has starred in various motion pictures and television series in Canada and the United States.

Yasmine Aker plays Mona Nazari on FBI. Her television credits include Tacoma FD, Grey’s Anatomy, CSI, The 100, among others. Her film work includes 12 Strong, Divergent, Sleep No More, and others. Yasmine currently plays the role of Angelica, a queer waitress, on season 4 of the show Good Trouble on Hulu. Yasmine has voiced many projects ranging from narration of animated videos to audio books, voicing video game characters, digital comic books, commercials, telephone systems, and interactive web projects, she is most notably known as the voice to "Kali" in rainbow 6 siege.

Yasmine has stage combat training: hand to hand and weapons training, specializing in sword fighting. Yasmine is fluent in many languages including: English, Arabic, and Farsi. Aside from her acting work, Yasmine has a passion for teaching and helping her community. She is educated in psychology, chemistry, child education, somatic trauma release exercises, music therapy, and eastern chanting. She has over 10 years of teaching experience and from time to time hosts and facilitates multi disciplinary healing workshops to empower people to participate in their own healing.