Lisa Ray

Lisa Ray is a famous Canadian actress and former model.  Lisa Ray was born in Toronto to a Bengali Indian father and a Polish mother and grew up in the suburb of Etobicoke. She excelled academically.  Ray was spotted by an agent in a crowd during a family vacation in India when she was 16, when she began modelling.  Lisa Ray came to public attention when she appeared in an advertisement for Bombay Dyeing opposite Karan Kapoor. The sensation 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. She also anchored a TV show Star Biz on Star Movies with actor/model Kelly Dorji.  She made her cinematic debut in 1994 in the Tamil film Nethaji opposite actor Sarath Kumar. Later she acted in a Telugu film Takkari Donga oppositeMahesh Babu. She made her Bollywood debut with the film Kasoor in 2001 opposite Aftab Shivdasani where her voice was dubbed by Divya Dutta as she could not speak Hindi. Her work in that film caught the eye of Deepa Mehta who cast Ray in the romantic Indian-Canadian romp, Bollywood/Hollywood in 2002. In 2005, she worked again with Mehta in the Oscar-nominated film, Water where she spoke her lines in Hindi although her voice was dubbed in the final cut. Since then she has worked in productions from Canada, Europe and the United States.

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