Overview
- Her comments, published Sunday in People, recount that her first agent urged a name change and she replied “f*ck no.”
- She called the decision to adopt a stage name personal and complicated, saying she holds no judgment for actors who choose it.
- Moafi said keeping her name did not stall her career, noting she booked her first jobs soon after and built a varied résumé.
- She currently appears as Dr. Baran Al-Hashimi in Season 2 of The Pitt on HBO Max.
- Coverage places her remarks in a wider pattern where agents often push name changes for perceived marketability, a practice that has long affected performers with non‑Anglo names.