Yasra Rizvi is a Pakistani actress and writer. She played the female lead in a number of television productions, including Mann Ke Moti (2012), Woh Dobara (2014), Thora Sa Aasman (2016) and Ustani Jee (2018). In her acting career, she is known for her portrayals of women in challenging situations.^[2][3][4]

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Rizvi resides in Islamabad, Pakistan.^{[citation needed]} She married Abdul Hadi in Karachi during December 2016.^[1]

Rizvi started her acting career after completing her Master's from London, UK. She initially performed on stage and theatre plays and moved to television serials.^[5] She received critical acclaim for her portrayal of a single mother in Mann Ke Moti (2013) aired on Geo TV. The series was a critical and commercial hit, also broadcast in India on Zindagi TV. Later she appeared as Fariha in Malika-Aliya (2014) and as Yasmeen in Woh Dubara (2014). In 2016, she appeared in the women-centric serial Thoda Sa Aasman, portraying the role of Fatima.^{[citation needed]}

In 2016 Rizvi started working on a comedy, Senti Aur Mental, featuring Zain Afzal, Rizvi herself and Yousaf Bashir Qureshi in the cast.^[6][7] The project, that would have been Rizvi's directorial debut,^[8] was cancelled in 2021.^[9][10][11]

Her other appearances include Iss Khamoshi Ka Matlab (2016), Kitni Girhain Baaki Hain 2 (2016), Baji Irshad (2017), Aangan (2017) and Ustani Jee (2018).^[12][13]

In 2023, she made her solo directorial debut Shanaas, a mystery-thriller broadcast on Green Entertainment. Her next project Working Women, a series about the challenges of working women of the society ,which was written by Bee Gul also broadcast on the same network.^[14][15]