Whos the nine year old girl who stars with Eddie Murphy in the movie “Imagine That”?”
Living a fantasy: Yara Shahidi, 9, co-stars with Eddie Murphy in ‘Imagine That’ The imaginative premise of “Imagine That” concerns a little girl’s blanket that serves as a portal to an imaginary world, as well as a source of security. That’s something the film’s co-star Yara Shahidi can get behind. “I have a blanket I’ve had since I was a brand new baby and it has patches of different cloth, and I still have that in my bed with me,” said Shahidi, 9, during an interview at the Four Seasons Hotel in Los Angeles. As Olivia Danielson, Shahidi is a child of divorce who lives mostly with her mother (Nicole Ari Parker). Her workaholic dad (Eddie Murphy) has no time for her – until he makes an amazing discovery. Olivia’s pretend world of princesses, which she enters from beneath her blanket, offers very real stock tips. Shahidi was just 7 when she beat out 3,000 little girls for the role – but she was an old pro by then. Her mother, a model, took her to work when she was just 6 weeks old in he
