beautiful women could sometimes be distracting.

Her role on POI is IMHO her best work ever. In its fifth and final season Sarah has completely transcended the role of shaw, to the point of Oscar worthy performance. Hopefully she'll pick another incredible project and get even more recognition

Exactly right as there are lots of bad actors/actresses in big roles as sometimes its who you know rather then how good you are as the odds of someone getting a big break or becoming a big actor is as rare or rarer then getting hit by lightning some have said. I like Shahi but she has had some roles in bad shows that didn't last, but I love her in POItoo bad its ending as well. Its said she/her family has money & she values her family time more as that showed when she took almost a yr off to have her twins.

You don't have to be good to make it far.

I strongly disagree.

Because she's not that good of an actress. Decent, but nothing special.

Real question is why haven't she took advantage of her big breaks lol jk
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Female lead for 1.5 seasons on network television and her own show for a couple of seasons on a top basic cable station is a couple of big breaks.
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Uhh she has had her big break. She is a very successful actress: she's more successful than 99% of actors.
She's been a regular on 5 shows (including 3 on broadcast networks and headlined her own cable show) and had recurring roles on a number of other hits. All that by 33 is very impressive.

In my opinion look no further than USA's Fairly Legal from the few and they were just a few I saw her more of her in Louboutins and panties more than in the court room. First scene of the show she had on a Man's shirt in which she dropped to go back upstairs cue shot of A** and panties until fade to black. Now since USA is the sister network of NBC than they obviously thought she was ready for more of a meatier role nope! She delegated well and seduced her way to judgments but USA knew what they were doing when they inserted Suits into her time slotI mean they kept Psych on for years wasn't that painful enough?

she definitely should be in more shows, she's talented and uber HOT !!!

It was the writer's strike that destroyed the show and the budget. They had to rush it before cancelling it.

She also often acts like the same character.
Have you actually watched more than two of her shows? Her character on the L Word is vastly different than her character in Life, and her character on Fairly Legal is the complete opposite of her character on POI.

I know this thread's from a while back, but I think it's relevant given the POI burn off.
I actually wouldn't usually agree with this type of statement, but her pregnancies do seem to have affected her career. She also often acts like the same character.
But, in regards to getting pregnant: Some have argued that her first pregnancy helped kill Life because she was one half of the lead pairing and fans simply weren't ready for her sudden disappearance. Her addition to POI and subsequent pregnancy and writing around that also appears to have negatively affected POI's ratings.

She was great in Life until she decided to get pregnant.

Yeahbut you see, I think she should be an A lister!
And about Lifethe beginning, the premise was great and everything but then it just slowed down and lost that momentum, it just became a cop show and left a lot of things out in the open

What?Life was an excellent show and highly rated. The problem was it was on NBC. Sara Shahi has been on quite a number of shows since 1999, but some actors are simply "character actors" by choice or by chance.
Yes she is a regular, but even POI may not last but 3-4 seasons. She's also back on NBC's Chicago Fire.
Acting on 2 prime-time shows at the same time in my opinion can be considered "successful".