 Shabnam Masood, played by Zahra Ahmadi, is the daughter of Zainab Masood (Nina Wadia) and Masood Ahmed (Nitin Ganatra), and the sister of Tamwar (Himesh Patel) and Syed Masood (Marc Elliott).A university graduate, she has not yet decided what career path she wants to follow and works in her parents' posy office in the meantime.She has aspirations to travel and makes secret plans to leave Walford, but she is forced to rethink when she discovers her parents are having financial difficulties.