Birth name Lisa Ray
Birth date April 4, 1972
Birth place Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Eyes color Green
Hair color Black
Height 5'4"
Weight 110 lbs
Occupation Canadian Actress and Model
Years active 2001 – present
Biography
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, doing five years of high school in four, while attending three different high schools: Etobicoke Collegiate Institute, Richview Collegiate Institute and Silverthorn Collegiate Institute.
She spoke Polish to her maternal grandmother and watched movies of Federico Fellini and Satyajit Ray with her cinephile dad. 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 made her cinematic debut in 1994 in the Tamil film Nethaji opposite actor Sarath Kumar where she appeared in a brief role. Later she acted in a Telugu film Takkari Donga opposite Mahesh Babu. After turning down a number of roles, she made her Bollywood debut with the film Kasoor in 2001 opposite Aftab Shivdasani where her voice was subsequently 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 did speak her own lines in Hindi although her voice was dubbed in the final cut of the film. Since then she has worked in productions from Canada, Europe and the United States.
Recent roles include a farm girl in All Hat, a school teacher in A Stone's Throw a housewife in '50s apartheid South Africa in The World Unseen and a Christian-Arab lesbian in the humorously entitled "I Can't Think Straight" directed by Shamim Sarif.
In 2007, she 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, which is very rare for a mainstream actress of Indian origin.
Lisa Ray has been featured in the Canadian edition of Hello magazine as one of the '50 Most Beautiful People' of the country. She 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
Year Title
2007 I Can't Think Straight
Blood Ties
The World Unseen
All Hat
2008 Kill Kill Faster Faster
Toronto Stories
The Summit
2009 Somnolence
Defendor
Cooking with Stella
Let the Game Begin
2010 Trader Games
1 a Minute
2011 Murdoch Mysteries
Awards
* Voted Star of the Future at the 2002 Toronto International Film Festival,
* 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
* Won 'Voice Achievers Award for 2009' for outstanding contribution in fields of film, trade, literature and sports.
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