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Pooja Shah est une Actrice Britannique née le 8 aout 1979
Pooja Ashwin Shah (born 8 August 1979 in London, England) is a British Asian actress and model of Kenyan-Asian descent. Her grandparents migrated to Kenya from Gujarat in Western India and so her ancestral roots are there.
Shah has trained as an Indian classical dancer. She attended the University of Brighton, graduating in 2001 with a BA Hons Degree in Theatre with Visual Practice.
She began her acting career in the theatre and went on to play the lead role of Mary Magdalene in a small budget film named Jesus the Curry King. The film was produced by the Aylesbury Film Company and was one of the first digital films to be shown in cinemas in the UK.
In 2002 Shah played Meena in the film Bend It Like Beckham and later that year she played one of the lead roles, Sinjata, in the Sky One series Is Harry On The Boat? based on the best selling book and film. The story is about holiday reps in Ibiza and was filmed in Almunecar in Andalusia, Spain.
Other credits include roles in the BBC hospital drama Holby City (2002), and the American series Adventure Inc. (2003).
In 2003 Shah was cast in her most notable role to date. She played Kareena Ferreira in the BBC soap opera EastEnders. The Ferreira family were not well received by critics or viewers and were dismissed as unrealistic by the Asian community in the UK. In 2004 the new executive producer, Kathleen Hutchison, made the decision to axe the entire family in a bid to improve the show, which had suffered from a vast ratings decline. Shah subsequently left the show in 2005.
After leaving EastEnders Shah has appeared in a short film entitled CryBaby, was a celebrity sponsor on the show Strictly Dance Fever and in September 2005 she acted in a feature film called Weekend Lovers.
In 2005 she played the lead role, Sona Virdi, in the play Deranged Marriage, which toured the UK.
In 2006, she took on a lead role in the Britflick Cash and Curry.
In 2007 she played the role of Reshna Dewan in the ITV police drama The Bill. She appeared in the film Cash and Curry, which was released in 2008. The film also stars Ameet Chana, the actor who played her on-screen brother Adi Ferreira in EastEnders.
Shah was a supporting actress in the 2009 and 2010 BBC drama Missing with lead, Pauline Quirke.
Shah starred alongside Brendan Carr in the Modern Life? feature film Ten Dead Men produced by Phil Hobden and directed by Ross Boyask.
In 2010, Shah filmed eight episodes of Coronation Street, playing DC Moore, a police officer investigating an attack on Tracy Barlow. The first episode aired on 3 January 2011. Shah won an award for best actress at the Rob Knox Film Festival for the lead part in the short film No Honour No Choice.
As of 2015, Shah appears in Challenge idents for Wink Bingo.
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Pooja Shah
Shah has trained as an Indian classical dancer. She attended the University of Brighton, graduating in 2001 with a BA Hons Degree in Theatre with Visual Practice.
She began her acting career in the theatre and went on to play the lead role of Mary Magdalene in a small budget film named Jesus the Curry King. The film was produced by the Aylesbury Film Company and was one of the first digital films to be shown in cinemas in the UK.
In 2002 Shah played Meena in the film Bend It Like Beckham and later that year she played one of the lead roles, Sinjata, in the Sky One series Is Harry On The Boat? based on the best selling book and film. The story is about holiday reps in Ibiza and was filmed in Almunecar in Andalusia, Spain.
Other credits include roles in the BBC hospital drama Holby City (2002), and the American series Adventure Inc. (2003).
In 2003 Shah was cast in her most notable role to date. She played Kareena Ferreira in the BBC soap opera EastEnders. The Ferreira family were not well received by critics or viewers and were dismissed as unrealistic by the Asian community in the UK. In 2004 the new executive producer, Kathleen Hutchison, made the decision to axe the entire family in a bid to improve the show, which had suffered from a vast ratings decline. Shah subsequently left the show in 2005.
After leaving EastEnders Shah has appeared in a short film entitled CryBaby, was a celebrity sponsor on the show Strictly Dance Fever and in September 2005 she acted in a feature film called Weekend Lovers.
In 2005 she played the lead role, Sona Virdi, in the play Deranged Marriage, which toured the UK.
In 2006, she took on a lead role in the Britflick Cash and Curry.
In 2007 she played the role of Reshna Dewan in the ITV police drama The Bill. She appeared in the film Cash and Curry, which was released in 2008. The film also stars Ameet Chana, the actor who played her on-screen brother Adi Ferreira in EastEnders.
Shah was a supporting actress in the 2009 and 2010 BBC drama Missing with lead, Pauline Quirke.
Shah starred alongside Brendan Carr in the Modern Life? feature film Ten Dead Men produced by Phil Hobden and directed by Ross Boyask.
In 2010, Shah filmed eight episodes of Coronation Street, playing DC Moore, a police officer investigating an attack on Tracy Barlow. The first episode aired on 3 January 2011. Shah won an award for best actress at the Rob Knox Film Festival for the lead part in the short film No Honour No Choice.
As of 2015, Shah appears in Challenge idents for Wink Bingo.
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Cash and Curry (2008)
, 1h33Origine Royaume-uni
Genres Comédie
Acteurs Pooja Shah, Faria Alam, Sofia Hayat
Rôle Gauri
Note28%
Raj and his friends are tired of being "errand boys" at the bottom of London's criminal food chain. Ambition leads Raj and his friends into the middle of a gang war between two of the biggest drug lords in London: Gabbar and Isaac.
Ten Dead Men (2008)
, 1h30Origine Royaume-uni
Genres Thriller, Action
Acteurs Brendan Carr, Terry Stone, Doug Bradley, Pooja Shah, Ben Shockley, John Campbell-Mac
Rôle Amy
Note34%
Ryan, un tueur à la solde d'un gang, veut mettre toutes ses années de violence derrière lui et commencer une nouvelle vie avec la femme qu'il aime. Mais c'est sans compter sur les réactions du caïd de sa bande et de ses anciens frères de sang...
Joue-la comme Beckham (2002)
, 1h52Réalisé par Gurinder Chadha
Origine Royaume-uni
Genres Drame, Comédie, Comédie dramatique, Comédie romantique, Romance
Thèmes Alcoolisme, Féminisme, L'immigration, Sport, La précarité, Football, Politique, Buddy movie, Films pour enfants
Acteurs Parminder Nagra, Jonathan Rhys-Meyers, Keira Knightley, Archie Panjabi, Anupam Kher, Preeya Kalidas
Rôle Meena
Note66%
Jessminder Jess Bhamra (Parminder Negra) une adolescente d'origine punjabi et de confession sikh, vivant à Hounslow, dans la banlieue de Londres, qui idolâtre David Beckham et est passionnée de football. Passion qu'elle pratique encore en amateur, du fait de la désapprobation de ses parents, qui sont aimants, mais ont un point de vue très strict sur le comportement que doit avoir une jeune fille, qui exclut totalement le sport.