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Ayesha Curry

CTL-E-6148 · Person · businessperson · 1989–present

VERIFIED evidence grade — build store (JSON graph)

Combined Graph record U-07363 · provenance: build store (JSON graph), record CTL-E-6148.

Ayesha Curry, born Ayesha Disa Alexander on 23 March 1989 in Ontario, Canada, is a Canadian-American businessperson, cookbook author and television host. Raised in Markham, Ontario, until she was fourteen, when her family moved to Charlotte, North Carolina, she first pursued acting, with guest roles from 2008 including an appearance on Hannah Montana. After marrying basketball player Stephen Curry in 2011, she built a food career from her Little Lights of Mine blog and YouTube channel, launched in 2014. Her Food Network series Ayesha's Homemade, later Ayesha's Home Kitchen, began in 2016, and she has published two cookbooks, The Seasoned Life (2016) and The Full Plate (2020). She is the founder and chief executive of Sweet July, a lifestyle brand launched in 2020 that celebrates women and BIPOC creators, and a co-founder of the Domaine Curry wine brand. In February 2026 she attended the Los Angeles premiere of GOAT, the animated film she made with her husband.

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Ayesha Curry, born Ayesha Disa Alexander on 23 March 1989 in Ontario, Canada, is a Canadian-American businessperson, cookbook author and television host. Raised in Markham, Ontario, until she was fourteen, when her family moved to Charlotte, North Carolina, she first pursued acting, with guest roles from 2008 including an appearance on Hannah Montana. After marrying basketball player Stephen Curry in 2011, she built a food career from her Little Lights of Mine blog and YouTube channel, launched in 2014.

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Staged 2026-10-16 under CTL-GOV-006 (Census Intake Wave 6 — 747 Program, Wave 12; 27-record packet). Gate A (2026-10-16): no Ayesha Curry entity in the live graph at 3,843 entities (exact / normalized / alias + token containment); ID CTL-E-6148 assigned at assembly. Supply: 747 Supply Ledger, Tier 3 — Famous Birthdays ABSENT census, readiness rank 1916 (TV Show Hosts list). The census supplied the NAME ONLY; no fact in this record is sourced to it (CTL-GOV-004). SCOPE GATE: PASS — descent documented on both sides: her mother is of Afro-Jamaican and Chinese-Jamaican descent and her father is of mixed African-American and Polish descent (Wikipedia, on her documented parentage; Parade, carrying her own account of her parents' backgrounds), and she has discussed her identity publicly, telling The View in June 2019 that growing up in Toronto she was Black and is a Black woman (Essence, Jun 2019). Vital status: LIVING — attended the Los Angeles premiere of GOAT on 6 Feb 2026 and spoke to People there, and celebrated her fifteenth wedding anniversary in July 2026 (People, Jul 2026). STATISTICS (sourced, dated): Two cookbooks, The Seasoned Life (2016) and The Full Plate (2020) (Andscape; Wikipedia); married Stephen Curry in 2011, four children (People, Jul 2026; Wikipedia); founder and CEO of Sweet July, launched in 2020 (Wikipedia). MEDIA: photo HELD (candidate: Getty Images photograph of Ayesha Curry at the Los Angeles premiere of GOAT, 6 February 2026 (FilmMagic); no file page read at file-page level in this pass, so no image is cleared — CTL-PHOTO-001; a CTL-created graphic is the standing alternative); chart FILLED (charts/chart-ctl-e-6148-ayesha-curry.svg); video HELD (Shorts Link Map checked by name and variants — no matching-entity CTL Short); audio HELD (no rights basis). MEDIA LAYER (staged 2026-10-16; full per-asset PHOTO-001 records + embed specs in the packet's staged JSON, Drive packet folder): map = N/A (Person records carry no map slot under the media-layer rule; maps attach to places and institutions.) | visual_assets = HELD: | chart = FILLED (CTL-created SVG (black / deep red / gold) built only from this record's sourced facts) | video = HELD (No matching-entity CTL Short in the Shorts Link Map catalog (checked by name and variants), and no official/em) | audio = HELD (No CTL-owned or rights-cleared matching-entity audio at staging.)

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