From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Shivani Ghai
Shivani Ghai
Shivani Ghai is a British actress of Indian origin. Born and an excellent ensemble cast that included Suranne Jones,
brought up in Newcastle, at 18 Shivani moved away to Anne Reid, David Morrissey, Bernard Hill, and Steve
pursue an acting career.[1] Evets.[7][8][9]
She has just finished filming the feature film called
Career Cleanskin, starring Sean Bean and Charlotte Rampling.
Due to be released 2011.[4]
Finding herself in London she started out in theatre
working for companies such as Man Mela, Rifco and
Kali.[2][3]
References
She then broke in to TV with minor parts in shows [1] Biography for Shivani Ghai at the Internet Movie
such as ’Doctors’, ’Spooks’ and ’The Bill. In 2003 she was Database
cast as the guest lead in an American adventure series [2] http://www.saliltripathi.com/articles/
’Adventures inc’ alongside Michael Biehn. Later the same Dec2000Tehelka.html
year Gurinder Chadha picked Shivani out at a script read- [3] http://www.thestage.co.uk/reviews/review.php/
ing and cast her as the Bride and best friend of Ashwarya 7671/bells
Rai in ’Bride and Prejudice’.[4] [4] ^ Shivani Ghai at the Internet Movie Database
The next couple of years were spent working, on BBC [5] ^ http://www.asiansinmedia.org/2008/07/28/
shows such as ’My Hero’ and ’Sinchronicity’, short films, interview-shivani-ghai-on-the-first-indian-family-
theatre and commercials. And then in 2006 Shivani was on-italian-tv-and-saddam-husseins-daughter/
cast as Sarita Dhavi in Rai Uno’s ’Medico In Famiglia 5’.[4] [6] http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/
One of Italy’s most popular TV shows was introducing stories/2010/02_february/18/five2.shtml
the first Indian family to Italian TV, and they were look- [7] http://www.metro.co.uk/metrolife/815619-five-
ing for an Indian actress fluent in Italian to play the new days-is-a-crime-drama-worth-the-week-long-
lead and love interest. After an unsuccessful search in commitment
Italy they decided to look at actresses from India and [8] http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-
England. With no previous knowledge of the language entertainment/tv/reviews/last-nights-television--
Shivani prepared a couple of scenes in Italian for her au- why-did-you-kill-my-dad-bbc2-five-days-
dition. She got the job and spent the next seven months bbc1-1914218.html
filming in Rome.[5] [9] http://www.theyorker.co.uk/news/film/4442
When the show came out Shivani’ s Sarita was hugely Persondata
popular, and Italian audiences had no idea that Shivani
Name Ghai, Shivani
hadn’t been able to speak the language previous to film-
ing.[5] Alternative names
Filming for Medico ended in March 2007, a few Short description
months later Shivani was flying to Tunisia to work on Date of birth
the HBO/BBC co production House of Saddam, where she
Place of birth
played Saddam Hussein’s middle daughter Rana. The
miniseries aired September 2008. It was a huge success Date of death
with the critics, and received BAFTA and EMMY nomina- Place of death
tions.
In 2009, Shivani filmed a guest lead as Jamilla Sagar,
in a soon to be aired new series called Identity, starring
Aidan Gillen and Keeley Hawes.[4]
She also filmed a five part drama called Five Days II
(sequel to Bafta and Golden globe nominated Five days).
Shivani played Nusrat Preston, a character described as
being at the heart of the serial.[6] She was also singled out
in some of the press for managing to stand out amongst
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