Ursula Taherian was born in Washington D.C. and raised in Crofton, Maryland. She attended Arundel High School where she graduated in the top 3% of her class in addition to serving as class president, captain of the soccer and softball teams, acting with the Arundel Players, and serving as a member of the Spanish Honor Society. She moved to Baltimore to attend Loyola College in Maryland where she graduated Summa cum laude with a major in Finance and a minor in Spanish. At Loyola, Ursula stayed involved in both theatre and student government and enjoyed membership in Beta Gamma Sigma (International Honor Society in Business & Management), Sigma Delta Pi (National Collegiate Spanish Language Honor Society), and the Financial Management Association Honor Society. After graduation, Ursula worked as an internal consultant for a well-known international financial institution.

Feeling creatively stifled, she eventually broke up with Corporate America and headed west, where she has since been working steadily in both film and television. Currently, she can be seen on the new hit television show, “Reality Hell”, on E! She was also just nominated for Best Actress and Breakout Action Star for her lead role in the film “Layla” that is presently making the festival rounds. Other credits include the pilots, “Think Twice”, written and directed by Jordana Arkin and Wayne Brady’s “Joke’s On You”, as well as a series regular role on the HBO political satire, “The Message”.