By Harry Wilson 
Most people know Geena Davis from Thelma & Louise and an Academy Award sitting on her shelf. What they don’t know is that she raised three children almost entirely out of the public eye — and one of them is quietly building something worth paying attention to. Kaiis Steven Jarrahy was born in 2004, the fraternal twin son of an Oscar-winning actress and a UCLA craniofacial surgeon. That combination alone makes his story interesting. But what makes it genuinely worth reading is what he did with that background — no acting, no reality TV, no chasing fame.
At 21, Kaiis is a Dean’s List student, a fraternity board secretary, and a confirmed engineering intern. He built that on his own terms, and this is the full story of how.
Who Is Kaiis Steven Jarrahy?
Nobody really knows much about Kaiis and honestly that’s kind of the point. He turned 21 last May. Born in Los Angeles, raised there too, went to Loyola High School which is one of those serious Jesuit boys schools in the city where kids actually study. He left LA after graduating and moved up to Seattle for college. His dad is Iranian-American so he grew up with that cultural mix in the house — Farsi, Ramadan, the whole thing alongside Hollywood dinner parties.
His name is worth mentioning because it confuses people. He was born with Davis in it — Kaiis Steven Davis Jarrahy. When his parents divorced in late 2021 both he and his twin brother dropped Davis from their last names. Legal settlement thing. So every article calling him Davis Jarrahy after 2021 is technically wrong. He’s just Jarrahy now. Small detail but if you’re writing about him it matters.
His Parents — Geena Davis and Dr. Reza Jarrahy
Here’s something most people don’t think about. Kaiis’s mom won an Oscar and his dad rebuilds children’s faces in surgery. Those are two very different definitions of success sitting at the same kitchen table. Geena Davis had already done Thelma & Louise and Beetlejuice before Kaiis was even born. By the time the twins arrived in 2004 she was 48 and had just started a whole institute dedicated to getting more women represented in film and TV. She literally built an organization around what she saw happening to her own kids growing up.
Reza Jarrahy is quieter about his work but it’s just as serious. UCLA is where he trained and where he still teaches today — craniofacial reconstruction is his thing, which basically means rebuilding facial structures in children who were born with differences. The man fixes faces. Mostly kids. That’s what Kaiis watched his father do. So between the two parents you’ve got activism, surgery, Iranian culture, Hollywood — all in one house in Los Angeles. Kind of wild when you think about it.
Growing Up Between Hollywood and Medicine
Geena Davis was pretty open about how chaotic those early years were. She already had a two year old — Alizeh — when the twins showed up in 2004. Three kids under three in one house. She told Good Housekeeping it was pretty daunting and she genuinely worried whether she could love twin boys as much as she loved her daughter. She did obviously but she didn’t pretend it was easy.
Kaiis and Kian grew up mostly out of cameras. One time they all showed up together publicly was the UCLA Mattel Children’s Hospital gala in May 2017 — Reza, Geena, all three kids on the same red carpet. Kaiis was about 13. If you go looking for family photos of them together that’s basically your best option. After that it goes quiet again. He went through school in LA, graduated Loyola High, and left for Seattle without making any noise about it whatsoever.
How Kaiis and His Twin Sparked a Hollywood Movement
Geena once took the boys to a park when they were about four. They saw a squirrel and she casually said “look at her.” Both kids turned around and asked her how she knew it was a girl. She wasn’t expecting that. She talked about it years later in The Guardian — said it showed her that even four year olds had already picked up the idea that female wasn’t a natural default. Her gender institute was already running by then but that moment reminded her exactly why she started it.
Kaiis Steven Jarrahy at the University of Washington
Kaiis left LA after high school and enrolled at the University of Washington in Seattle. He’s majoring in Environmental Studies — that’s confirmed through his LinkedIn profile. He also made the Dean’s List there which honestly isn’t something most people expected to find when they went looking for information about him. It’s a real academic record, not just enrollment.
He joined Alpha Delta Phi fraternity on campus and ended up on the executive board as Secretary of the Washington chapter. Secretary on a fraternity exec board is not a sit-in-the-back role. There are actual meetings to run and records to keep. He’s doing that on top of Dean’s List coursework. Most articles covering him describe him in two sentences and move on. That LinkedIn profile tells a much more complete story if you actually bother reading it.
His First Career Step — The Granite Construction Internship
Here’s the detail almost nobody is writing about. Earlier this year Kaiis announced on LinkedIn that he accepted an engineering internship offer from Granite Construction. That’s a major American infrastructure and construction company — not a startup, not a family connection, an actual competitive internship he applied for and got.
For someone studying Environmental Studies that internship makes sense. Granite works on roads, bridges, and large scale civil projects. It’s hands-on infrastructure work that sits close to the kind of environmental and engineering crossover his degree points toward.
He’s 21, on the Dean’s List, running a fraternity exec board, and now interning at a construction company. Most celebrity kids his age are doing a lot less.
Meet His Siblings — Kian and Alizeh
Kian William Jarrahy
Kian is the other twin. Born the same day as Kaiis — May 6 2004 — but honestly you wouldn’t guess they were twins from how differently their lives look now. Santa Monica College is where Kian ended up, starting there in 2022. SMC is quietly the number one transfer college in California, most people have no idea. He’s wrapping up around 2026. Even lower profile than his brother — one Instagram post at last count. He showed up with Geena at the 2022 Emmy Awards and the Bentonville Film Festival in 2023 but that’s about as public as he gets. Reza occasionally posts both boys together on Instagram — that’s genuinely about as much as anyone sees of them as a pair.
Alizeh Keshvar Davis Jarrahy
Alizeh is the oldest — born April 10 2002, two years ahead of the twins. She’s studying Music Industry and Cinematic Arts at USC. Out of the three kids she’s the one who most directly inspired Geena’s gender work. Geena has said publicly that watching Alizeh grow up made her realize how badly Hollywood needed to change. She keeps her Instagram private but she’s been spotted at Broadway shows and film events occasionally.
FAQs
Q: How old is Kaiis Steven Jarrahy in 2026?
He turns 22 on May 6 2026 — his birthday is May 6 and he was born in 2004 in LA.
Q: What is Kaiis doing now?
University of Washington, Environmental Studies major, Dean’s List. He’s also Secretary on the Alpha Delta Phi exec board and just started an engineering internship at Granite Construction.
Q: Does Kaiis have Instagram?
Yes he does but it’s private. Don’t expect a follow back anytime soon.
Q: What is Kaiis net worth?
Nobody knows and honestly the question doesn’t make much sense for a 22 year old on his first internship.
Q: Is Kaiis dating anyone?
Nothing public. He keeps that side of his life completely offline.
Q: Did Kaiis change his last name?
Yes. He was born Kaiis Steven Davis Jarrahy. After his parents finalized their divorce in December 2021 he dropped Davis and has gone by Jarrahy since.
Q: Will Kaiis become an actor like his mother?
Nothing points that way. His entire academic and professional track goes in a completely different direction.
FINAL THOUGHTS
Kaiis Steven Jarrahy is not a celebrity. He just happens to have one for a mother. At 22 he has a declared major, a Dean’s List record, a fraternity leadership role, and a paid engineering internship — none of which required his mother’s name to get. He built that in Seattle, away from LA, away from cameras, away from the industry he grew up next to.
Whether he stays private or eventually steps into something more public nobody knows yet. But the groundwork he’s laying looks nothing like someone coasting on a famous last name.