Lisa Ray is a Canadian-Indian actress, model, author and activist. She has acted in many Indian and international films.
Wiki/Biography
Lisa Ray was born on April 4, 1972 in Toronto, Canada (age 47 in 2019) as “Lisa Rani Ray”. Her zodiac sign is Aries.
Lisa Ray as a child
She spent part of her childhood in Calcutta. She was educated at Etobicoke College, Toronto, Canada, Richview College, Toronto, Canada, and Silverthorn College, Toronto, Canada. She came to India as a model but returned to Canada to study journalism. Unfortunately, her mother suffered an accident that made it difficult for her to pursue a career in journalism. She went on to study at the Central School of Speech and Drama, London Center for Drama Studies, Desmond Jones School of Physical Drama and the British American Drama Academy (BADA). She received her graduate degree in performance from the Academy of Live and Recorded Arts (ALRA).
appearance
Height (approximately): 5′6″
Weight (approximately): 60kg
Body measurements (approximately): 36-27-35
Eye color: hazel green
Hair color: dark brown
family, caste and husband
Lisa Ray’s father LK Dutta is Bangladeshi and her mother Jennifer Dutta is Polish.
Lisa and her father LK Dutta
Lisa Ray and her mother Jennifer Dutta
Her husband, Jason Dehni, is a management consultant.
Lisa Ray and her husband Jason Deney
She has two daughters, named Sufi and Soleil, who were born via surrogate in Tbilisi, Georgia, in June 2018.
Lisa Ray’s daughters Sophie and Sorel
Profession
She began her modeling career in the 1990s. She appeared in an advertisement for Bombay Dyeing Company, one of India’s largest textile manufacturers. She then caused a stir when she appeared on the cover of Glad Rags. This led to her getting more such modeling projects.
Lisa Ray on the cover of Glad Rags
She hosts Star Movies’ television show “Show Biz” with actress/model Kelly Dorji. She then appeared in the music video of late Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan’s song “Aafreen Aafreen”.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-QRivHR0c28
She made her Bollywood debut in 2001 with the film “Kasoor”.
She then appeared in the 2002 romantic comedy Indo-Canadian film Bollywood/Hollywood. In 2005, she starred in “Water” (2005), for which she was nominated for an Oscar. The film created a lot of controversy due to its content and could not even be shot in India.
Water(2005)
She has worked in Canadian films such as All Hat (2007) and A Stone’s Throw (2006). She also guest-starred in the American TV series Psycho. She hosted the second and fourth seasons of the Canadian reality TV show Top Chef Canada. She made her acting debut in Tamil in 1996 with the film Nethaji.
Netaji
Lisa made her Telugu debut with the film “Takkari Donga (2002)” and her Kannada debut with the film “Yuvaraja (2004)”.
dispute
- Lisa was once rumored to be in a relationship with Sanjay Dutt. Tired of the rumors, she left India and fled to Canada.
- After the release of the film “Dus” (2005), she came into focus again. Rumor has it that she quit the show after her boyfriend beat her black and blue. She has not commented on the rumors. Years later, she said of her experience that she was young and inexperienced and unable to speak for herself. She would never tolerate physical abuse.
Awards
- Named Future Star at the 2002 Toronto International Film Festival
- Won the Vancouver Film Critics Association Canadian Film Award for Best Actress for “Water”
- Miss India-Canada Special Achievement Award 2011
Lisa Ray wins Miss India-Canada Special Achievement Award
- May 2013 Diamond Jubilee Medal
- In 2013, he won the Anokhi Prestige Award for Canada’s Best Actor of the Decade for the movie “Water”
- Medscape awards India’s Most Inspiring Fighter of 2015
favorite thing
- Food: Pecan Pie, Bearberry Pie, Pizza, California Roll, Knafeh
- Beverages: smoothies, juices
- Director: Federico Fellini, Satyajit Ray
fact
- Lisa’s ancestral home is in Shambazar, West Bengal.
- She was very close to her grandmother and often spoke Polish to her.
- She excelled academically and completed five years of high school in only four years.
- According to a poll conducted by The Times of India, she was named “the ninth most beautiful woman of the millennium”.
- Divya Dutta lent her voice to the film Kasoor.
- In 2008, after her mother passed away, she returned to Toronto.
- Lisa attended the Toronto International Film Festival in support of her work on Cooking with Stella (2009). It was at this event that she revealed she had multiple myeloma, a type of cancer.
- She then started writing a blog called Yellow Diary to share her experience with cancer.
- On Christmas Day 2009, Lisa received a stem cell transplant to treat her rare cancer. In 2010, she announced that she was cancer-free through a transplant, but since multiple myeloma is incurable, the disease was not completely cured.
- She organizes various events to raise awareness about various social causes, mainly cancer and women’s empowerment.
- She is a health advocate and loves yoga.
Lisa Ray doing Vrikshasana
- She is a vegan and doesn’t even eat dairy.
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