Cast » Navid Shirazi

Navid Shirazi is played by Michael Steger. A student of Persian descent who is West Beverly Hills High's politico. He runs the school newscast and interviews his fellow classmates. He is often compared to David Silver from the original series. He has had feelings for Adrianna since middle school and secretly pays for her rehab. After the truth is revealed, Navid and Adrianna become a couple. He breaks up with her when he finds out she is pregnant, stating that he doesn't know how to handle the situation. He then starts dating an Iranian girl named Nika, whom he meets at Christina's party. When Adrianna asks him to broadcast her admitting her pregnancy to the whole school, he can't help but admire her incredible strength. Despite taking Nika to the Valentine's Day dance, he leaves her and goes to Adrianna's house and asks her to be his Valentine, as he realizes that he doesn't care what a mess she is, he just wants her in his life. He asks Adrianna to marry him in the episode The Dionysian Debacle. They both realize that they can't get married or keep the baby. At prom Navid gets furious with Ty because he didn't help Adrianna during her pregnancy. While Navid and Ty are fighting, Adrianna tells Navid she is in labor. They rush to the hospital. Adrianna gives birth to a baby girl whom the adoptive parents name Maisie. Adrianna breaks up with Navid after she begins to have feelings for Teddy Montgomery and wants to pursue a relationship with him. After Adrianna discovers that Teddy doesn't want a relationship, but only a fling, Adrianna realizes what she has done and tries to get Navid back. However, Navid doesn't want anything to do with her. Navid witnesses Adrianna buying drugs from Annie's boyfriend, Jasper. Navid tells Annie who tells Jasper. Jasper is not happy and confronts Navid who doesn't take back his story. Later, when Jasper's relationship with Annie's parents begins to suffer because of the "rumour", he pushes Navid down a flight of stairs. Navid asks Adrianna to tell that she bought drugs from Jasper. At first she refuses, but then she tells the gang that she will because it's the right thing to do. This seems to bring Navid and Adrianna closer again. He then starts seeing Lila. He started dating her in What's Past is Prologue, but breaks up with her because he realizes he still has feelings for Adrianna. He also tries to tell her that he still loves her when she has her first show. Navid sees Adrianna wearing the bracelet he put in her dressing room and asks her where she got it, she tells him Javier, her new boyfriend gave it to her. He tells her that he couldn't possibly known the meaning of the charms of the bracelet and that he gave it to her. Navid tells her he loves her and the two get back together. In season 3 Adrianna's career booms and Navid gets closer to Silver. A lot has happened because of this, Silver and Navid almost kissed! In the episode "Best L'eid Plans", Navid spent the night at Silver's and it soon becomes apparent that Silver and Navid do share romantic feelings for each other. After Navid and Adrianna have an intense argument on how ignorant she has been to her friends, Adrianna enlists Silver to help her make up for the argument by helping her do something nice for Navid. As Silver steals Navid away from the party to help Adrianna with her plan, Navid confesses that he has been having feelings for her. Adrianna interrupts the moment and so Silver is left hanging. In the next episode, "Holiday Madness", Navid reveals that he does not feel the same way he felt before for Adrianna, and that now he has Silver. Silver, afraid of ruining her friendship with Adrianna, tells Navid that she needs space and so they try to keep a distance between each other. All goes well, until Adrianna invited Navid and Silver for a sleepover she planned that all the others were unable to attend. Things become awkward as Adrianna, Navid and Silver a left to spend time alone together. Things could not get any less awkward when both Silver and Navid are unable to sleep and so they run into each other in the hallway. Navid tells Silver that he can't stop thinking about her and he asks her if what he feels for her is just all in his head. She says 'yes' but it is known that she does not mean it as she can't look him in the eye. When he steps forward and asks her if she feels the same way, just as she looks into his eyes and is about to answer, Adrianna interrupts the moment, AGAIN! At Adrianna's Hollywood Christmas party, Navid gets fed up with Adrianna's diva attitude and decides to get away from the party to be alone. Silver finds him and as he apologizes for making things awkward with their friendship because he has feelings for and she doesn't, she confesses that she feels the same way and they share a kiss.

Michael Steger appeared in the independent feature "Assisting Venus," and made his feature film debut in the Disney movie "The Cheetah Girls: One World." As Vik Bhatia, he played a young, aspiring Bollywood movie director who offers The Cheetah Girls a role in his film, only to have his dreams and creative vision stifled by his shrewd uncle.

A Southern California native, Steger spent most of his childhood training in martial arts and received his first Dan black belt in Tae Kwon Do at the age of 18. During high school, Steger caught the acting bug and honed his craft in the theater. He went on to play leading roles in numerous classical and contemporary plays in and around the L.A. area, including "A View from the Bridge," "Death of a Salesman," "Othello" and "Tartuffe."

Steger's career began to take off when Tim Burton cast and directed him as the lead in the music video for the song "Bones," by popular rock band The Killers. Soon after, Steger landed his first television series opposite Rob Corddry in "The Winner," produced by Seth MacFarlane. Following the sitcom, Michael became a series regular on "Buzz," a pilot in which he starred opposite Sharon Lawrence. He has also guest starred on "Criminal Minds," "Navy NCIS," "Cory in the House" and "Hannah Montana," as a hot young tennis superstar.