Carla Gugino

Birthday: 29 August 1971, Sarasota, Florida, USA

Height: 5' 5" (1.65 m)

 

Biography

Carla was born in Sarasota, Florida. Moved with her mother to Paradise, California, when Carla was just five years old. During her childhood, they moved many times within the state. But she remained a straight-A student throughout high school and graduated as valedictorian. A major modeling agency discovered Carla in San Diego and sent her to New York to begin a new career when she was 15. New York was more than she could handle at that young age, so she returned to LA in the summer, modeling and enrolling in an acting class at the suggestion of her aunt, Carol Merrill, known from "Let's Make a Deal" (1963). During her free 

Gugino was born in Sarasota, Florida, to Carl Gugino, an orthodontist of Italian descent,^[1] and a mother of English-Irish descent^[2] described as "Bohemian".^[3] Her parents separated when she was two,^[4] after which she traveled between her father and half-brother Carl Jr.'s home in Sarasota, and her Paradise, California home, to which her mother moved her when she was four. She has described her bicoastal childhood, saying, "I lived in a tepee in Northern California and a van in Big Sur. With my dad, I lived in a beautiful house with a swimming pool and a tennis court and went to Europe for the summers. So I feel like I lived two childhoods." She worked as a teenage fashion model, and took acting classes at the suggestion of her aunt, former Let's Make a Deal spokesmodel Carol Merrill.^[3] She eventually came to support herself, and with her parents' support, was legally emancipated by the time she was 16

Gugino's television work during the late 1980s and early 1990s included appearances on Saved by the Bell, Who's the Boss?, ALF, Doogie Howser, M.D., The Wonder Years and a recurring role on Falcon Crest.

In film, Gugino appeared the Shelley Long film, Troop Beverly Hills and co-starred with Pauly Shore in the 1993 romantic comedy Son in Law. She later appeared in the video to Bon Jovi's 1994 song "Always".

After playing Michael J. Fox's love interest, Ashley Schaeffer, during the first season of the sitcom Spin City in 1996, Gugino starred with Nicolas Cage in Brian De Palma's Snake Eyes, and in Judas Kiss, which she also co-produced. She appeared as Dr. Gina Simon during the 1999–2000 final season of Chicago Hope.

Gugino Giving an Interview to CNN 2011

In 2001, she appeared as family matriarch Ingrid Cortez in the first Spy Kids film (as well as the film's two sequels in 2002 and 2003). That same year she appeared as Jet Li's love interest in the martial arts action thriller The One.

She starred in two short-lived TV series: ABC's Elmore Leonard crime drama Karen Sisco in 2003, and CBS's science fiction series Threshold in 2005. That same year, Gugino appeared as Lucille in the feature film adaptation of Frank Miller's graphic novel, Sin City. The following year, she appeared in the movie Night at the Museum.

Gugino appeared in the Roundabout Theatre Company play After the Fall opposite Six Feet Under's Peter Krause. In late 2006, she appeared in an Off-Broadway production of Tennessee Williams' Suddenly Last Summer opposite Blythe Danner.^[5]

Gugino appeared as Amanda, Vincent Chase's agent, in a dozen episodes of the cable television series Entourage.^[6] Gugino appeared nude in the May 2007 issue of Allure.^[7] That same year she appeared in the feature film American Gangster. The following year, she played the female lead in the thriller Righteous Kill, opposite Robert De Niro and Al Pacino.

Gugino starred in Chicago's Goodman Theater production of Eugene O'Neill's Desire Under the Elms from January 17 to February 17, 2009, in the role of Abby. Charles Isherwood of The New York Times praised Gugino's performance, saying, "Ms. Gugino displays a depth and range of expression that I cannot imagine any other actress achieving with such blazing honesty and wrenching truth. She is simply magnificent."^[8] During the first three months of 2009, three feature films premiered featuring Gugino: the thriller The Unborn, the film Watchmen, in which she played Sally Jupiter,^[9] and the adventure remake Race to Witch Mountain, in which she starred opposite Dwayne Johnson. That April, she received an Outer Critics Circle Award nomination^[10] for Outstanding Actress In a Play for her performance in Desire Under the Elms. Later in November of that year, she appeared as a pornographic actress in the comedy film Women in Trouble, which spawned a sequel in 2010, Elektra Luxx, titled after her character.

In 2011, Gugino appeared as Madame Vera Gorsky in Zack Snyder's action-fantasy film Sucker Punch alongside Abbie Cornish and Emily Browning. Gugino sang a duet with co-star Oscar Isaac, which appeared in the end credits and in the film's soundtrack. She also played Henry "Hank" Moody's attorney and love-interest for the 4th season of Californication on Showtime.

In the summer of 2012 Gugino had a lead role as Susan Berg, a Washington D.C. investigative reporter, on the USA Network's miniseries Political Animals.

Personal life

Gugino is a life and film partner with American film director, screenwriter and film producer Josh Adams. They met as actors in the 1996 film Wedding Bell Blues, and she has appeared in ten other films and television series that he has written or directed since then.

 

Filmography

Film
Year	Film	Role	Notes
1989	Troop Beverly Hills	Chica Barnfell
1990	Welcome Home, Roxy Carmichael	Young Roxy
1993	This Boy's Life	Norma Hansen
	Red Hot	Valentina
	Son in Law	Rebecca ' Becca' Warner
1995	Miami Rhapsody	Leslie Marcus
1996	Jaded	Megan 'Meg' Harris
	Homeward Bound II: Lost in San Francisco	Delilah	Voice Role
	The War at Home	Melissa
	Wedding Bell Blues	Violet
	Michael	Bride
1997	Lovelife	Amy
1998	Snake Eyes	Julia Costello
	Judas Kiss	Coco Chavez
2001	Spy Kids	Ingrid Cortez
	The Center of the World	Jerri
	The Jimmy Show	Annie
	The One	T. K. Law/Massie Walsh
2002	Spy Kids 2: The Island of Lost Dreams	Ingrid Cortez
2003	The Singing Detective	Betty Dark/Hooker
	Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over	Ingrid Cortez
2005	The Life Coach	Carla
	Sin City	Lucille
2006	Even Money	Veronica
	Night at the Museum	Rebecca Hutman
2007	The Lookout	Janet
	Rise: Blood Hunter	Eve
	American Gangster	Laurie Roberts
2008	Righteous Kill	Det. Karen Corelli
2009	The Unborn	Janet Beldon
	Sparks	Robin	Short film
	Watchmen	Sally Jupiter/Silk Spectre
	Race to Witch Mountain	Dr. Alex Friedman
	Women in Trouble	Elektra Luxx
	Under the Hood	Sally Jupiter/Silk Spectre	Direct-to-Video Release
2010	The Mighty Macs	Cathy Rush
	Elektra Luxx	Elektra Luxx
	Every Day	Robin
	Faster	Cicero
2011	I Melt With You	Laura
	Girl Walks Into a Bar	Francine Driver
	Sucker Punch	Dr. Vera Gorski
	Mr. Popper's Penguins	Amanda
	New Year's Eve	Dr. Morriset
2012	Hotel Noir	Hanna Click
2013	By Virtue Fall	Actress
Television
Year	Title	Role	Notes
1988	Who's the Boss?	Jane	Episode: "Prom Night II"
	Good Morning, Miss Bliss	Karen	Episode: "Summer Love"
1989	ALF	Laura	Episode: "Standing in the Shadows of Love"
	Saved by the Bell	Karen	Episode: 1.1 Pilot
1989 – 1990	Falcon Crest	Sydney St. James	11 episodes
1990	Ferris Bueller	Ann Peyson	Episode: "Stand-In Deliver"
1991	Doogie Howser, M.D.	Sara Newman	Episode: "Planet of the Dateless"
	The Wonder Years	Sandy Tyler	Episode: "Triangle"
1992	Murder Without Motive: The Edmund Perry Story	Allison Connors	TV-Movie Alternative title: "Best Intentions"
	Quantum Leap	Michelle Temple Cutter	Episode: "Ghost Ship"
	Davis Rules	Kathi	Episode: "A Father Makes All the Difference", Episode: "Someone to Watch Over Them"
	A Private Matter	Mary Beth	TV-Movie Alternative title: "Miss Sherri"
1994	Motorcycle Gang	Leann	TV-Movie
1995	The Buccaneers	Nan St. George	Miniseries
1996, 1998	Spin City	Ashley Schaeffer	12 episodes
1998	Alexandria Hotel
1999	A Season for Miracles	Emilie Thompson	Hallmark Hall of Fame TV movie
1999 – 2000	Chicago Hope	Dr. Gina Simon	23 episodes
2001	Mermaid Chronicles Part 1: She Creature	Lily	TV-Movie Alternative title: "She Creature"
2003 – 2004	Karen Sisco	Karen Sisco	10 episodes
2005 – 2006	Threshold	Dr. Molly Anne Caffrey	13 episodes
2007 – 2010	Entourage	Amanda Daniels	10 episodes
2010	Californication	Abby	Season 4 Episodes 1 – 12
2011	Hide	Warren	TV-Movie
2012	Justified	Karen Goodall	Season 3 Episode 2
	Political Animals	Susan Berg	6 episodes
	New Girl[11]	Emma	3 episodes

 

Awards and nominations

 

In 2009, Gugino was honored by the National Italian American Foundation (NIAF). During the Foundation's 34th Anniversary Gala in Washington, D.C., she received NIAF's Special Achievement Award for Entertainment, presented by her close friend, actress Connie Britton.^[12]

Year	Award	Category	Work	Result
1999	Blockbuster Entertainment Award	Favorite Supporting Actress in a Suspense	Snake Eyes	Nominated[13]
2008	Screen Actors Guild Awards	Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture	American Gangster	Nominated[14]

Cara Santa Maria

Birthday: 19 October 1982, Texas, USA

Cara Louise Santa Maria (born October 19, 1983)^[1] is an American neuroscience enthusiast and science educator. She is the senior science correspondent and host of the "Talk Nerdy to Me" series for The Huffington Post.^[2][3]

Santa Maria is a native of North Texas and is a 2001 graduate of Plano East Senior High School. She is from a Mormon family although she is atheist herself ^[4] and of mixed Italian and Puerto Rican descent.^{[5] [6]}

From 2009 to 2011, Cara Santa Maria dated television host and political commentator Bill Maher.^[7]

Santa Maria has been a frequent panelist on The Point, a spin-off talk show of The Young Turks^[8] and an occasional host of The Young Turks itself.^[9]

 

After graduating with her masters degree in neuroscience, Cara enrolled in a doctoral program but dropped out shortly thereafter.

 

Candace Kroslak

 

Birthday: 22 July 1978, Chicago, Illinois, USA

Height: 5' 9" (1.75 m) 

 

Candace Kaye Kroslak (born Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, July 22, 1978) is an American actress of Slovak descent, probably best known for her role as Lindy Maddock in the Swedish-American soap opera Ocean Ave.

Before Ocean Ave., Candace appeared in the movies Demonicus, Planet of the Apes and Soul Survivors. In the last few years she has had guest roles on such television series as CSI: Miami, What About Brian, Shark, Las Vegas, How I Met Your Mother and Scrubs.

Most recently, she played Brandy in the 2006 direct to video movie American Pie Presents: The Naked Mile.

She also appeared on the cover of the April 2011 issue of Runner's World magazine.

Filmography

• Wild On! (1 episode, "Sex on South Beach", 1998) .... Host
• City Guys (1 episode, "Who Da Man?", 2000) .... Cute Girl
• Demonicus (2001) .... Theresa
• Planet of the Apes (2001) .... Friend At Leo's Party
• Soul Survivors (2001) .... Cool Blond (as Candace Kaye Kroslak)
• Ocean Ave. (122 episodes, 2002–2003) .... Lindy Madcock
• Casting Ripe Live (2005) .... Herself - Host
• Let Go (television pilot) (2006) .... Julie
• CSI: Miami (1 episode, "Skeletons", 2006) .... Nicole
• What About Brian (1 episode, "Two in Twenty-So hot Four", 2006) .... Bike Messenger
• Shark (1 episode, "Russo", 2006) .... Hot Date
• How I Met Your Mother (1 episode, "Slap Bet", 2006) .... Girl #1
• American Pie Presents: The Naked Mile (V) .... Brandy
• Las Vegas (1 episode, "White Christmas", 2006) .... Hot Chick #1
• Rules of Engagement (2 episodes, "Pilot" (uncredited) and "Young and the Restless", 2007) .... Beth
• Scrubs (1 episode, "My No Good Reason", 2007) .... Kristin Fisher
• Knight Rider (1 episode, "Knight of the Zodiac", 2008) .... Aquarius
• Take Me Home Tonight (2011) .... Ally hi cheese

Camilla Luddington

 

Birthday: 15 December 1983, UK

Height: 5' 6" (1.68 m)

Biography

Camilla Luddington was born and raised in Ascot, Berkshire, in England. She attended the American School In England, in Thorpe, Surrey. She has two brothers and a younger sister.

She has since worked mainly in the USA, and appeared in small roles in several high profile TV shows before rising to prominence as Catherine Middleton in the Lifetime TV movie, William & Kate (2011) (TV). She went on to appear in "Californication" (2007) and "True Blood" (2008). As of the 9th season, Luddington has been a guest 

Originally from Berkshire, Luddington was educated at an all-girls school in Ascot, Berkshire. She later attended the American School in England at Thorpe in Surrey. She also lived in Texas for a year when she was a child, learning to speak with an American accent. She has two brothers, Daniel and Joey, and a younger sister, Amy. As a child, she was obsessed with the Ricki Lake Show and dressed her younger brother and sister up to play a couple in an abusive relationship.^[1] Her mother died and her father's name is Martin.

When she was nineteen she entered a university in Pennsylvania. She moved to New York City, then Los Angeles.

Television

Luddington has worked mainly in the United States.^[2][3] In February 2011, the Daily Mail described her as "on the path to fame and fortune after being cast as Kate Middleton in a planned movie about the royal wedding".^[4]

Luddington joined the cast of the Showtime series Californication for its fifth season, playing a nanny.^[5] She also joined the cast of the fifth season of the HBO vampire drama True Blood, as Claudette Crane, a faerie.^[6]

In July 2012, Luddington joined the cast of the television show Grey's Anatomy as Dr. Jo Wilson in a recurring role. ^[7]

 

Tomb Raider

In June 2012, Crystal Dynamics confirmed Luddington would voice Lara Croft in the upcoming video game, Tomb Raider. ^[8] Luddington originally went into the audition for Lara thinking she was auditioning for a project called "Krypted" with a character called Sara. She had three auditions. She wore shorts and boots to her first Tomb Raider audition before she knew what it was because the character reminded her of Lara Croft. She screamed in her car when she found she got the part. She also did the motion capture for Lara over the course of three years. One day, she spent the entire day doing "death scenes" where she had to pretend to die in every possible way for the game.

 

Filmography

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2007	A Couple of White Chicks at the Hairdresser	Receptionist
2009	Behaving Badly	Flight attendant
2010	The Forgotten	Jane Doe / Emma Clark	TV series, episode: "Train Jane"
2010	CSI: Crime Scene Investigation	Claire	TV series, episode: "Lost & Found"
2010	Days of our Lives	Tiffany	TV series, episode: "1.11379"
2010	Big Time Rush	Rebecca	TV series, episode: "Big Time Concert"
2010	Friends with Benefits	Woman	TV series, episode: "The Benefit of Friends"
2011	The Defenders	Talia	TV series, episode: "Nevada v. Wayne"
2011	Accidentally in Love	Sandra	TV film
2011	William & Kate	Catherine Middleton	TV film
2012	Californication	Lizzie	TV series
2012	True Blood	Claudette Crane	TV series
2012–present	Grey's Anatomy	Dr. Josephine Wilson	TV series

Video games

Year	Title	Voice	Notes
2013	Tomb Raider	Lara Croft	Also did the Motion capture for the same character

 

Lisa Ray

 

Date of Birth (Birthday):  4 April, 1970
Zodiac Sign:  Aries
Height:  5'5"
Weight:  110 lbs
Hair Color:  Black
Birth Place:  Toronto, Canada
Marital Status:  Single
Languages:  Hindi, English
Hobbies:  Exercising, eating, walking, and even working

 

1987–2000

Lisa Ray came to public attention when she appeared in an advertisement for Bombay Dyeing wearing a high-cut black swimsuit,^[4] opposite Karan Kapoor.^[5] Subsequently, she returned to Canada to attend university to study journalism, but a car accident that injured her mother derailed those plans. Instead, she returned to India, where she appeared on the cover of Glad Rags wearing a red Baywatch-style swimsuit. The sensation that that caused led to more magazine covers, spokesperson deals, and a job as host of her own show-business program. A Times of India poll named her the "ninth most beautiful woman of the millennium," the only model in the top ten.^[3] She also anchored the TV show Star Biz on Star Movies, with actor/model Kelly Dorji.

Ray made her cinematic debut in 1994 in the Tamil film Nethaji, opposite actor Sarath Kumar, in which she appeared in a brief role. Later, she acted in the Telugu film Takkari Donga, opposite Mahesh Babu.

In 1996, Ray appeared in the famous song "Afreen Afreen," by Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, and appeared in the song "Har Taraf Tera Jalwa," by Daler Mehndi, in 1998.

Ray became the enduring brand ambassador for Rado Watches in India.

2001–2009

After turning down a number of roles,^[6] Ray made her Indian Film Industry debut in 2001 with the film Kasoor, opposite Aftab Shivdasani,^[5] in which her voice was dubbed by Divya Dutta, because she could not speak Hindi.^[7] Interestingly, actress Divya Dutta also starred in the same film, but because she had already given her voice to Lisa Ray, Dutta's voice was dubbed by another artist—just to make her own character believable. Her work in that film caught the eye of Deepa Mehta, who cast Ray in the romantic Indian-Canadian romp Bollywood/Hollywood, in 2002.^[2]

Realizing that acting was something that she wanted to pursue more seriously, Ray moved to London to concentrate on a career in the performing arts. While there, Ray studied at the Central School of Speech and Drama, The London Centre for Theatre Studies, The Desmond Jones school of Physical Theatre, and BADA. She graduated from the Academy of Live and Recorded Arts (ALRA), in 2004, with a post-graduate degree in acting.^[8]

While studying, Ray made a conscious effort to not accept any film offers until she had graduated. However, while still at ALRA, she received another call from Deepa Mehta, who made her an offer she simply could not refuse—the lead role of Kalyani in Mehta's highly controversial and much-anticipated feature Water.^[8]

In 2005, Ray worked again with Mehta, in the Oscar-nominated film Water, in which she spoke her lines in Hindi, although her voice was dubbed in the final cut.^[7] Since then, Ray has worked in productions from Canada, Europe, and the United States. Past roles include a farm girl in All Hat, a school teacher in A Stone's Throw, a housewife in 1950s-apartheid South Africa in The World Unseen, and an Arab lesbian in the humorously titled I Can't Think Straight, directed by Shamim Sarif. "I think every film that I’ve done so far has been a turning point because I experimented with each one and grew professionally. The movies I chose, dealt with a lot of thought-provoking subjects."^[9]

After graduation, Ray based herself out of Milan, Paris, and New York from 2004–2008, returning to Toronto when her beloved mother passed away in late 2008.^[8]

In 2007, Ray completed filming for Kill Kill Faster Faster, which is a contemporary film noir inspired by the critically acclaimed novel of the same name, by Joel Rose. She appeared in a few uninhibited sex scenes, "something unheard of for an artist from India."^[10]

In 2009, Ray was named 'Trailblazer' at the Reelworld Film Festival and was featured as one of the '50 Most Beautiful People' of the country in the Canadian edition of Hello magazine, May 2009 issue.

Ray guest-starred in the USA Network series Psych, directed by Jay Chandrasekhar, which aired on 30 November 2009. She also appeared in a guest role of a reporter, Dominique Ball, in the recent Woody Harrelson movie Defendor.

Ray attended the Toronto International Film Festival in support of her work in Cooking with Stella. At this event, Ray revealed that she had incurable cancer, and she shared the diagnosis of Multiple Myeloma with the media and the public. At the same time, Ray started an acclaimed blog, The Yellow Diaries, chronicling her cancer experience.

"I believe it can be cured," Ray wrote on her blog. "That's the Dirty Realist in me... I'm getting better. My prognosis, given my 'junior' status and stage of disease, is very good. I'm aiming for full remission."

Ray went on to help raise funds for the establishment of the first research chair for Multiple Myeloma at Princess Margaret Hospital in Toronto. Also, she took part in Plan Canada’s Because I Am A Girl campaign, a global movement that fights for the rights of girls around the world who face discrimination because of their gender and age.

On Christmas in 2009, Ray received a stem cell transplant to treat her rare cancer.

2010–present

In April 2010, Ray announced that she was cancer-free, after a stem cell transplant. Ray gave a candid interview on her personal cancer trauma and surviving it, appearing on the cover of the 2010 anniversary issue of the Indian men's luxury magazine The Man.

Ray was seen in UniGlobe Entertainment's cancer docu-drama titled 1 a Minute, scheduled for release in 2010.^[11] The documentary was made by Namrata Singh Gujral and featured cancer survivors Olivia Newton-John, Diahann Carroll, Melissa Etheridge, Mumtaz, and Jaclyn Smith, as well as William Baldwin, Daniel Baldwin, and Priya Dutt, whose lives have been touched by cancer. The feature was narrated by Kelly McGillis. It also starred Bárbara Mori, Deepak Chopra, and Morgan Brittany.

On 16 November 2010, TLC India announced that it would film a new 5-part series, Oh My Gold (OMG), with Lisa Ray. It premiered in 2011. The series Oh My Gold was set against the cultural-yet-contemporary backdrop of India. Uncovering the beauty of various cities, Ray played both a host and a travel guide.

Ray has since become an outspoken advocate for stem cell technology, recording a PSA for the McEwan Centre for Regenerative Medicine. Also, she completed a national media tour in Canada for Multiple Myeloma called Making Myeloma Matter, in early 2011, to raise public awareness.

In 2011, Ray acted in the acclaimed stage play Taj, opposite Kabir Bedi in Luminato.^[12] Also, Ray was at the Taj Mahal and the Estee Lauder Breast Cancer event to spread awareness about breast cancer.

On 5 July 2010, Ray was honored to be a host of the informal lunch for Queen Elizabeth's visit to Toronto.^[13] Ray also hosted the 2011 International Indian Film Academy IIFA Rocks fashion and music event and was a presenter at the IIFA Awards and the 2011 Giller Prize.

A strong advocate of stem cell research and a long-time yoga practitioner, Ray partnered with co-owners Paris and Annette, in 2011, to open Moksha Yoga Brampton.^[14]

On 15 November 2011, Ray announced that she had been named to host season two of Top Chef Canada,^[15] which is Food Network Canada's top-rated series. The show premiered in March 2012.

Ray had one TV series Endgame and one film Patch Town released in 2011. Also, Ray guest-starred in the Canadian-television drama series Murdoch Mysteries, which aired on 12 April 2011.

On 18 May 2012, Craig Goodwill announced that Lisa Ray would star in his Boy Toy,^[16] a fantasy drama that is based on Goodwill’s short film Patch Town. Boy Toy begins shooting in Toronto in November 2012.

In September 2012, Ray was named ambassador for the Pantene Beautiful Lengths campaign in Canada.^[17] Pantene Beautiful Lengths is a charity campaign that asks people to grow and donate their hair to make real-hair wigs for women battling cancer.

Personal life

On 23 June 2009, Ray was diagnosed with multiple myeloma, a cancer of the white blood cells known as plasma cells, which produce antibodies. It is a rare disease.^[7][18] In April 2010, she announced that she was cancer-free, after a stem cell transplant.^[19] In February 2012, Ray announced her engagement to management consultant Jason Dehni.^[20] On 20 October 2012, Ray and Dehni (then a banking executive and philanthropist) were married in the Napa Valley, in California.^[21][22]

 

Awards

• Voted Star of the Future at the 2002 Toronto International Film Festival,^[23]
• Top Ten most Beautiful Indian Woman of the Millenium by the Times of India
• Won the Best Actress in a Canadian film for Water by the Vancouver Critics Circle^[24]
• Won 'Voice Achievers Award for 2009' for outstanding contribution in fields of film, trade, literature and sports^[25]
• Named one of Canada's 50 Most Beautiful Stars in Hello Canada's May 2009 issue.^[26]
• Honored with Fortis Lisa Ray Award for Conquering Cancer in 2010^[27]
• Honored with a Special Achievement Award at Miss India-Canada 2011^[28]
• Named one of Canada's 50 Most Beautiful Stars in Hello Canada's May 2012 issue.^[29]
• Honored with People's Choice Award at the 'Light of India' Awards 2012 in Arts & Entertainment section.^[30]

Philanthropy

• 2009 : 5K Your Way Walk/Run, MMWalk for the Cure
• 2009 : Plan Canada’s ‘Because I Am A Girl’ campaign^[31]
• 2010 : Plan Canada’s ‘Because I Am A Girl’ campaign^[31]
• 2010 : "1 a Minute" , to inspire women and give them hope
• 2010 : Estee Lauder Breast Cancer Awareness^[32]
• 2011 : ‘Make Myeloma Matter’ media campaign^[33]
• 2011 : Artbound , in support of Free The Children
• 2011 : GIRL 20 SUMMIT
• 2012 : BE FAIR 2 RARE^[34]
• 2012 : Wellspring Cancer 'Graduate' Fashion show
• 2012 : “Rhythm and Soul”-THE SPARK GALA 2012, to Ignite A Child's Potential^[35]
• 2012 : Run or Walk, MM5K^[36]
• 2012 : Plan Canada’s ‘Because I Am A Girl’ campaign^[31]
• 2012 : Ambassador for Pantene Beautiful Lengths campaign in Canada^[17]

Filmography

Film & TV series

All are English language films unless otherwise noted.

Year	Film	Role	Notes
1994	Hanste Khelte	Rekha	Hindi language film Special appearance in song
1996	Nethaji	Priya	Tamil language film
2001	Kasoor	Simran Bhargav	Hindi language film
2002	Takkari Donga	Bhuvana	Telugu language film
2002	Bollywood/Hollywood	Sue (Sunita) Singh	English/Punjabi/Spanish language film
2004	Ball & Chain	Saima
2004	Yuvaraja	Lovely	Kannada language film
2005	Water	Kalyani
2005	Seeking Fear	Nina Atwal
2006	The Flowerman	Louise
2006	Quarter Life Crisis	Angel
2006	A Stone's Throw	Lia
2007	I Can't Think Straight	Tala
2007	Blood Ties	Elena	TV Series, Season 1, Episode 9, Stone Cold
2007	The World Unseen	Miriam
2007	All Hat	Etta Parr
2008	Kill Kill Faster Faster	Fleur
2008	Toronto Stories	Beth
2008	The Summit	Rebecca Downy	TV Mini-Series
2009	Somnolence	Jeany Rodriguez
2009	Defendor	Dominique Ball
2009	Cooking with Stella	Maya Chopra
2009	Let the Game Begin	Eva
2009	Psych	Sita	TV Series, Season 4 Episode 6 "Bollywood Homicide"
2010	Trader Games	Sarah
2010	1 a Minute	Star
2011	Murdoch Mysteries	Mirala	TV series, Season 4, Episode 9, The Black Hand[37]
2011	Endgame	Rosemary Venturi	TV series
2011	Patch Town	Bethany Franks

TV Show

Year	Show	Role	Notes
2005	The Standard	Bollywood Actress	TV series
2010	Great Canadian Books	Herself	TV series documentary,Season 1, Episode 7, Late Nights on Air
2011	The Marilyn Denis Show	Herself	TV series, Episode #1.57
2011	Oh My Gold	Herself	TV Show of TLC Channel
2012	The Hour	Herself	TV series, Episode #8.122, #8.123
2012	Top Chef Canada	Herself	TV series, Season 2, Episode 1-13

 

Theatre

Year	Film	Role	Notes
2011	Taj [12]	Princess Jahanara

Magazine cover photo

Year	Magazine	Issue	Notes
2002	Anokhi Vibe (Canada)	Winter issue
2002	Take One (Canada)	September issue
2002	Elm Street (Canada)	November issue
2006	RIVAAJ Magazine	May issue
2006	Toronto Life (Canada)	August issue
2007	NIRVANA Woman	2007
2007	Chatelaine (Canada)	September issue
2007	Glow (Canada)	December issue
2009	Asian woman(Canada)	April issue
2009	M Magazine (Canada)	June issue
2009	Harper's Bazaar India	June issue
2009	Hi! Blitz (Canada)	July issue
2010	Time (India)	February issue
2010	People (India)	May issue
2010	Mega Modelz (India)	August issue
2010	Vogue (India)	August issue
2010	Elle (India)	October issue
2010	Prevention (India)	November issue
2010	The Man (India)	December issue
2011	City Life (Canada)	June/July issue
2011	ANOKHI (Canada)	July/August issue
2011	Fusia Magazine (Canada)	No. 2 issue
2011	More Magazine (Canada)	February/March issue
2012	Jewellery Business Magazine	June issue[38]

MV

Year	Song	Singer	Notes
1996	Afreen Afreen	Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
1999	Har Taraf Tera Jalwa	Daler Mehndi

Ambassador

• Brand ambassador of Rado (watches) in India

• Lisa named Ambassador for 'Pantene Beautiful Lengths' Campaign