Bangladeshi-American celebrities
Celebrities with Bangladeshi ancestry.
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Born May 7th 1966 in East New York, Brooklyn and raised in Astoria, Queens. Kamal is the son of an immigrant Bangladeshi father and Trinidadian mother (His father opened a string of East Indian restaurants in Manhattan's East Village, and his mother was a classically trained opera singer) After attending P.S.122Q and Steinway JHS 141Q, Kamal got accepted into the high school of Art & Design in 1980, then went on to graduate at City-As-School in 1984. Kamal is an accomplished musician, who plays the electric bass and scored all the music on his directorial debut, God Has a Rap Sheet (2003) with his band "The sacred groove posse". 1993 saw Kamal in the comedy group, "The Jerky Boys", who went on to sell 4 1/2 million copies and were nominated for a Grammy in 1995. After leaving the "Jerky boys", Kamal directed the documentary Artists of Hell's Kitchen (2000) (he won best director of a documentary at the New York International & Independent Film & Video Festival). His new film, the feature God Has a Rap Sheet (2003) has had its fan base of Hollywood big-shots - Martin Scorsese and Abel Ferrara both called the film "Brilliant". He is an avid baseball fan, particularly the New York Mets, and has studied Judo as a serious hobby.- Sophia Haque rose to fame as a VJ/host on pop-music channels broadcast by India in the 1990s (via satellite). Her amiable personality and attractive appearance made her a favorite with many viewers, and led to her being offered bit parts in Indian films. A lead role in the low-budget comedy film 'Snip!' followed, but unfortunately the film did not succeed at the box office. Sophia has done some modeling also, and looks set to continue her small appearances in films.
- Shefali Chowdhury is a British actress, vastly known for her role of Parvati Patil in the Harry Potter film series. Shefali was born in Denbighshire, Wales, to Bangladeshi parents who migrated to the United Kingdom in the year 1980. She attended the Waverly School before her foray into acting and later on completed her Alma Mater from Birmingham City University. Shefali is the youngest of five siblings and resides in Birmingham, England.
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Noreen Quadir is an actress and writer working in theatre, film, TV, commercials, print, voiceover, and audiobook narration.
Soft-spoken with a bubbly resilience and a spark of sass, she brings a mix of intelligence, quirky playfulness, and quiet strength to her characters.
She has starred in Off-Broadway and New York plays and award-winning films. As an activist, she particularly enjoys working on projects that contain strong social messages.
Noreen received her BA in Theatre at Southern Connecticut State University and studied acting at the Circle in the Square Theatre, improv at the Magnet Theater, and voiceover at Edge Studio. She is trained in Stanislavski, Meisner, and Chekhov.
She is also a writer and filmmaker and has written screenplays, short stories, poems, and a children's picture book.- Actor
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Ahmed Helmy made his first big screen appearance in film Aboud on the Boarder (1999), in which he co-starred alongside Alaa Waley El Din. Ahmed, through his amazing breakthrough performance, and comic sense of humor, nabbed all the attention he needed in this film. He quickly made a jump to starring roles in films such as Umar 2000 (2000), The Headmaster (2000), _El Selem We Al Thoghban_.
Ahmed first started his career, when director Sherif Arafa was watching children's programme "Leighb Eyal" on the Egyptian Satellite Broadcast, Sherif found in Ahmed the comedian actor he needed for the starring role in Aboud Ala El Hedoud. He is a 1993 graduate of the Academy of Arts, High Institute for Theatre Art. He believes that the most sophisticated role he had done yet was in the film Omar 2000, especially the scene in which he had to bury a dear friend. Ahmed's idol is his father, he finds in him the idealism, kindness and wisdom. Ahmed also admires Ahmed Zaki for his enormous acting talent. As for the comedy, he adores Adel Emam and Samir Ghanem. Ahmed finds the trend of the cinema today, now known as the "Youth Cinema", can be judged only through audiences. 'After three or four days of screening a film, audiences would know and judge the film to be a success or no, it is a matter of supply and demand, commerce, film is a commodity which applies to the terms of supply and demand'.