 | Lisa Rani Ray (Ht. 5' 4") was born on April 4, 1970 in Toronto, Canada. She is a Canadian Bollywood actress and former fashion model. |
She grew up in Toronto, is the daughter of a Bengali father and a Polish mother. Ray started her modeling career at age 16 and was the "brand ambassador" for Lakme cosmetics in India. She made numerous advertisements for various Indian companies before becoming involved in films. She began her acting career with the film Kasoor in 2001 opposite Aftab Shivdasani. Ray then went to "Tollywood" in 2002 and appeared in Takkari Donga with Mahesh Babu. She subsequently starred as the female lead of Canadian director Deepa Mehta's romantic Indo-Canadian romp, Bollywood/Hollywood(2002). In 2005, she worked again with Mehta in the latter's most recent film, Water. The film tells the story of a widow, played by Ray, who lives in a Varanasi ashram. Ray starred opposite John Abraham. Ray has said that she desires to be a novelist with a base in Paris. She is also hosting "Beauty Mantra" a television show on the Indian channel Zee TV.
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Lisa Ray's Career Info.Filmography Ecstasy (2007) (pre-production) .... Heather
All Hat (2007) (post-production) .... Etta Parr
I Can't Think Straight (2007) (post-production) .... Tala
Kill Kill Faster Faster (2007) (post-production) .... Fleur
A Stone's Throw (2006)
Quarter Life Crisis (2006) .... Angel
"Blood Ties" .... Elena (1 episode)
- Stone Cold (????) TV Episode .... Elena
Seeking Fear (2005) .... Nina Atwal
Water (2005) .... Kalyani
Ball & Chain (2004) .... Saima
... aka Arrangement (International: English title)
Bollywood/Hollywood (2002) .... Sue (Sunita) Singh
... aka Bollywood Hollywood (Canada: English title: DVD box title)
Takkari Donga (2002) .... Bhuvana
Kasoor (2001) .... Simran Bhargav
... aka Fault (UK)
Quotes from Lisa Ray.
"The story of my so-called affair with Sanjay Dutt came as a shock to me. I couldn't handle it, so I ran away to Canada.""I believe in destiny." "When ever I'm stressed I love getting away and going home to Toronto." India is such a strong movie-going culture. Watching a film in a cinema there is radically different from watching one anywhere else. And that, in turn, has informed the way films are made there. That's probably why the films are so incredibly long - it's not just about watching the film. The entire family socializes while watching the movie. (...) That's why the acting has to be so loud. I have no home. I'm kind of placed in London, but Paris is where my boyfriend is. My parents are in Toronto and I work in New York and India a lot. That makes me a bit of a chameleon, and frankly, I like that. "I do feel that I'm equally at ease in Paris as I am in a village in India as I am in a café in Montreal or on Queen Street in Toronto. I like that. It work for my acting process as well." "In the past, whenever I have seen myself on screen, I have felt uncomfortable so often, wondering why I reacted in a particular way in one scene, or why I didn't react in a particular way in another. But nothing of that sort happened when I saw it at the premiere. Of course, Deepa had made sure all of us did our work very well." (5-10-2006) On how she got the role in Water (2005): "Deepa sent me the script about two years ago. It had cheesy title like River Moon, and I was told it would be shot without any publicity in Sri Lanka, and we were not to talk about it till it was completed. As I was reading it, I knew it was Water. There was no question of rejecting it. When I remembered what had happened to Deepa in India, I became even more determined to be in the film." (10 May 2006) On preparing for her role in Water (2005): "Deepa gave us all plenty to read about the state of widows, not only in the 1930s but also today. But I also knew I had to something more. I decided to go to India, and look at how the widows lived in rural areas. I even went to Varanasi. I went there pretending to be a tourist. I even had my camera! I went to the widows' homes, went to temples, heard widows sing the Radha-Krishna bhajans, and watched them for hours. I followed their body language. I was adding (from the observations) what I had read about them and from the memory of widows in my own family." (10 May 2006) On meeting the audience for Water (2005): "Even before the film was released, we knew it would be wrong to think that Water is only about widows in a holy city in India. And Canadian audiences knew that instantly. Some people have come out of the theater, telling us that Water made them think a lot about their own communities. A Greek woman told me, 'I never realized it, but we did similar things to our widows.'" (10 May 2006) When asked if she is not interested in Bollywood films: "Not if I get the kind of parts Deepa offers me. I worked in one film in Bollywood but I am here, and I look forward to films being made here. I have nothing against good Bollywood films. Many are very camp and very over the top -- those films are not for me. I have lived in India for some years and am very proud of my Indian heritage." (10 May 2006)
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