Firoza Begum (actress)
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| Years active | 1920s and 1930s |
Firoza Begum was a Jewish Indian actress. Firoza starred in several Bollywood and Mollywood films.[1] She was very popular in the 1920s and 1930s.[2] Although there were other Jewish actresses at the time, she stands out along with other notables like Ruby Myers and Esther Victoria Abraham (Pramila).[3][4][5]
Born Susan Solomon, she is of Bene Israel heritage. She used the Muslim name Firoza Begum to hide her Jewish ancestry[6] (see History of the Jews in India). She was one of five famous Jewish Indian actresses featured in the documentary Shalom Bollywood: The Untold Story of Jews and Bollywood by Danny Ben-Moshe released in 2017.[7]
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