Faezeh Jalali
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University of Tennessee (M.F.A., 2004)
- Actress
- director
- writer
- producer
- activist
Faezeh Jalali | |
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فائزه جلالی | |
| Born | 1980 (age 45–46) |
| Education | Beloit College (B.A., 2001) University of Tennessee (M.F.A., 2004) |
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| Years active | 2005–present |
Faezeh Jalali (Persian: فائزه جلالی, romanized: Fā'iza Jalālīborn 1980) is an Indian–Iranian actress, director, writer, producer and activist.[1][2][3] She is known for Slumdog Millionaire (2008), Shaitan (2011) and the play Jaal (2012).[4][5]
She is a fourth generation Iranian born in 1980[6] to an Iranian Muslim family residing in India and grew up in Mumbai, Maharashtra.[7][8][3] After schooling at J.B. Petit High School for Girls, she attended Beloit College[9] in Beloit, Wisconsin, United States, where she studied theatre arts and also took pre-medical background classes for dental school.[6] Jalali joined the theatre and went on to obtain a Master of Fine Arts at the University of Tennessee and Clarence Brown Theatre at Knoxville, Tennessee.[10][11][2]
Career
Jalali's theatre acting performances include, Mira Nair's stage musical Monsoon Wedding, I Don’t Like It, As You Like It and other productions such as Jatinga, The Djinns of Eidgah, Thook, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Arms and the Man, The Trestle at Popelick Creek. She also directed her own plays such as 07/07/07 and Shikhandi - The Story of the In-betweens, which won the Best Ensemble Cast at the Mahindra Excellence in Theatre Awards (META) 2016 and 2018 for which Jalali was also nominated for the Best Director.[9]
She also played roles in movies such as Slumdog Millionaire and Kurbaan and was part of the Indian action-thriller television series 24.[12]