Shay Shariatzadeh: Who Is John Cena’s Wife?
Emily Baldwin
Published Jan 01, 2026
Shay Shariatzadeh is the wife of John Cena. She is a trained engineer of Iranian descent.
Shay was born in Iran, in 1989, and was raised in Canada. She bagged her first degree in electrical and electronics engineering from the University of British Columbia.
Shay and Cena met on the set of the comic movie Playing with Fire, and have been married since 2020.
Who Is John Cena?
John Cena is an actor and part-time wrestler, who currently fights under the WWE.
Born on April 23, 1977, in West Newbury, Massachusetts, Cena is considered as one of the greatest wrestlers of all time.
Cena’s started his wrestling career in 1998 as a bodybuilder, and became a pro wrestler in 1999, before taking part in the Ultimate Pro Wrestling (UPW) championship.
The 16-time world champion signed with the WWE in 2001 and under the developmental territory Ohio Valley Wrestling (OVW), he won the Heavyweight Championship, and the Tag Team Championship.
Cena who is known for the catchphrase “You can’t see me”, has won the WWE Championship 13 times, the WWE United States Championship five times, the WWE Tag Team Championship twice, the World Tag Team Championship two times, and the Royal Rumble, also on two occasions.
As an actor, Cena first appeared in the movie The Marine (2006), and later went on to star in Trainwreck in 2015.
Other movies in which he appeared include Ferdinand (2017), Blockers (2018), Bumblebee (2018), F9 (2021), and The Suicide Squad (2021).