Zoya Hussain is an Indian actress, screenwriter and film director who works primarily in Hindi films. She came into limelight after playing the role of ‘Sunaina Mishra’ in the Bollywood film ‘Mukkabaaz’.
Wiki/Biography
Zoya Hussain was born on Monday, October 1, 1990 in Delhi (age 29; as of 2019). Her zodiac sign is Libra. She attended a boarding school in Delhi. She graduated in Business Studies. Zoya has been fascinated by theater since her childhood. She was good at sports and playing musical instruments during her school days. During her college years, she was actively involved in theater performances and then moved to Mumbai to pursue a career in theatre.
appearance
Height (approximately): 5’6”
Hair color: black
Eye color: dark brown
Family, caste and boyfriends
Zoya Hussain was born into a Muslim family. Her father owned an adventure travel company. Her mother is a child psychologist. She has a sister who works as a writer for an online media organization.
marital status: Single
Profession
Zoya Hussain started her acting career in 2017 with the role of “Sunaina Mishra” in the Bollywood film “Mukkabaaz”. The film was a huge success, grossing 10.51 billion rupees ($1.5 million) at the box office.
She has acted in films like Teen Aur Aadha (2018), Laal Kaptaan (2019) and Haathi Mere Saathi (2019).
In addition to acting, she is also involved in screenwriting.
favorite thing
- Food: Tandoori Chicken, Chicken Biryani
- Vacation destination: Paris
fact
- Her hobbies include reading, writing and traveling.
- She reportedly considers herself an Islamophobe.
- She follows a non-vegetarian diet.
- Her parents have always supported her acting career.
- Zoya played a silent character in the film Mukkabaaz. She said in an interview that she was not initially supposed to play a mute character in the film, but the idea came about as the story was developing.
- Zoya learned sign language to play the mute character ‘Sunaina’ in the film ‘Mukkabaaz’. Sharing her experience of learning sign language, Zoya said:
Learning sign language took several months. I did my research and started meeting a lot of people who actually communicated in this way. My sign language teacher Sangeeta helped me a lot in this regard. I wanted to learn it from scratch because then I could improvise. When you can’t improvise and add your own emotions and reactions, the script becomes very rigid. I wanted to bring out the most authentic version of Sunaina. “
- Zoya had approached Anurag Kashyap before filming Mukkabaaz; she had written a script and wanted Kayshap’s feedback. When he read the script, he found it bland.
- She is an avid animal lover and owns three pugs.
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