Lisa Ray is a Canadian-born Bollywood actress and model. The Toronto-bred beauty is the daughter of a Bengali father and a Polish mother. She was born in April 4, 1970. Ray started her modeling career at age 16. She is 5' 5" with green eyes. She was the brand ambassador of Lakme,India.She did a lot of advertisements for Indian companies before jumping into the Bollywood bandwagon.The 35 year-old started her acting career with the film Kasoor(2001) opposite Aftab Shivdasani. She then starred as the female lead of Canadian director Deepa Mehta's romantic Indo-Canadian romp, Bollywood/Hollywood(2002).
In 2005, she was working again with Mehta in her most recent film, Water.The film is about a Hindu widow played by Ray,who is left on the streets of Varanasi,where she is forced into prostitution .Ray starred opposite current Bollywood heart-throb, John Abraham. Although both seem to sizzle on screen, John says that, "This is not a romantic film, throughout the entire film, the closest Lisa and I get is to be holding hands." Lisa Ray wants to be a novelist, with a base in Paris. Lisa is also hosting "Beauty Mantra" a television show on the Indian channel Zee TV.
Is of Indian/Polish descent.
Is fluent in Hindi.
In the top 10 most beautiful women of the millennium in India by the daily Times of India.
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.
Birth name: Lisa Ray
Gender: Female
Profession: Actress
Height: 5' 5"