Ayesha Curry
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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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- Also known as: Ayesha Disa Alexander, Ayesha Alexander
Notes
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.)
Relationships
- Stephen Curry — married to
Ayesha Curry married Stephen Curry (CTL-E-5780) on 30 July 2011; the couple marked their fifteenth anniversary in July 2026 and have four children.
Sources
- People, 'Steph and Ayesha Curry Celebrate 15 Years of Marriage with Low-Key Dinner Date' (Jul 2026) — Stephen and Ayesha Curry married in 2011 and celebrated their fifteenth wedding anniversary in July 2026; they have four children; both spoke to People at the Los Angeles premiere of their animated film GOAT in February 2026, where Ayesha Curry is described as a cookbook author and restaurateur — https://people.com/steph-ayesha-curry-celebrate-15th-wedding-anniversary-12031600 (primary source · build store)
- Wikipedia, 'Ayesha Curry' — Ayesha Disa Curry (née Alexander), born 23 March 1989 in Ontario, Canada, raised in Markham until age 14, when she moved to Charlotte, North Carolina; her mother is of Afro-Jamaican and Chinese-Jamaican descent and her father is of mixed African-American and Polish descent; founder and CEO of Sweet July, a lifestyle brand empowering and celebrating women and BIPOC creators, and co-founder of the Domaine Curry wine brand; married Stephen Curry in 2011, four children — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayesha_Curry (build store)
- Essence, 'Ayesha Curry Wasn't Embraced By Black Community When She Moved' (Jun 2019) — reporting Curry's appearance on The View, where she discussed her Jamaican, Chinese and Polish heritage and said that growing up in Toronto she was Black and is a Black woman, and described the difficulty of being pressed to choose one part of her heritage after moving to North Carolina at 14 — https://www.essence.com/celebrity/ayesha-curry-wasnt-embraced-black-community/ (build store)
- Andscape, 'Inside Ayesha Curry's journey from home kitchen to budding culinary mogul' — Curry grew up in a large Afro-Asian Jamaican family in Toronto; she has published two cookbooks, The Seasoned Life and The Full Plate, hosted the Food Network show Ayesha's Home Kitchen, co-owns the International Smoke restaurant in San Francisco with chef Michael Mina, and runs the lifestyle brand Sweet July — https://andscape.com/features/inside-ayesha-currys-journey-from-home-kitchen-to-budding-culinary-mogul/ (build store)
- Parade, 'Steph Curry's Wife Ayesha Curry: How They Met, Married, Kids' — Curry, born in Toronto, Canada, has said her mother is Jamaican and Chinese and her father is Polish and African American, and that she identifies as a Black woman; she appeared on Hannah Montana during her early acting career and became a CoverGirl spokesperson in 2017 — https://parade.com/1369699/kaigreen/steph-curry-wife-ayesha-curry/ (build store)
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Ayesha Curry at a Golden State Warriors game, Denver
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