Lisa Rani Ray was born on 4 April 1972 and is a Canadian actress.
32 Facts About Lisa Ray
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Lisa Ray began her modelling career in India in the early 1990s, appearing for leading Indian brands like Bombay Dyeing and Lakme.
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Lisa Ray made her acting debut in 1996 in the Tamil film Nethaji.
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In 2009, Lisa Ray was diagnosed with multiple myeloma, an incurable form of blood cancer.
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Lisa Ray began writing The Yellow Diaries, a blog about her experiences of having cancer.
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Lisa Ray's writing and columns have since regularly appeared in multiple major publications.
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Lisa Ray remains an active advocate of stem-cell therapy and has participated in several successful fundraisers and cancer awareness campaigns.
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In 2011, Lisa Ray began hosting a popular travel show on Discovery Channel India alongside appearing as host and judge in Food Network's highest rated show, Top Chef Canada.
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In 2016, Lisa Ray opened an Instagram account dedicated to poetry.
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In March 2019, Lisa Ray participated as a panelist on the 2019 edition of Canada Reads where she advocated for David Chariandy's award-winning second novel, Brother.
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Lisa Ray was born in Toronto to a Bengali Hindu father and a Polish Catholic mother and grew up in the suburb of Etobicoke.
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Lisa Ray spoke Polish with her maternal grandmother and watched movies of Federico Fellini and Satyajit Ray with her cinephile dad.
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Lisa Ray excelled academically, doing five years of high school in four, while attending three different high schools: Etobicoke Collegiate Institute, Richview Collegiate Institute and Silverthorn Collegiate Institute.
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Lisa Ray's plans were thwarted after a tragic auto accident that would consign her mother to a wheelchair for the rest of her life.
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Lisa Ray returned to India and went on to become one of the country's first supermodels, and the face of Lakme and Bombay Dyeing.
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Lisa Ray co-anchored the TV show Star Biz on Star Movies and appeared in a music video for Afreen Afreen, an iconic ghazal written by renowned lyricist Javed Akhtar, and composed and performed by Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan.
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Lisa Ray graduated from the Academy of Live and Recorded Arts, in 2004, with a post-graduate degree in acting.
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Water released in 2005 to both national and global critical acclaim, with the venerable Roger Ebert describing it as "lovely in the way Satyajit Lisa Ray's films are lovely",.
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Lisa Ray has since worked in productions from Canada, Europe, and the United States.
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In 2008 Lisa Ray starred, alongside Sheetal Sheth and Amber Rose Revah, in the Shamim Sarif directed British romantic comedy I Can't Think Straight that went on to win awards in queer film festivals worldwide, including Dallas OUT TAKES, Miami Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, and Tampa International Gay and Lesbian Film festival.
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In 2007, Lisa Ray completed filming for Kill Kill Faster Faster, which is a contemporary film noir inspired by the critically acclaimed novel of the same name, by Joel Rose.
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Lisa Ray guest-starred in a 2009 episode of the USA Network series Psych, and appeared in Woody Harrelson starrer Canadian-American superhero film Defendor.
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On Christmas in 2009, Lisa Ray received a stem cell transplant to treat her rare cancer.
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Lisa Ray gave a candid interview on her personal cancer trauma and surviving it, appearing on the cover of the 2010 anniversary issue of the Indian men's luxury magazine The Man.
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On 5 July 2010, Lisa Ray hosted an informal lunch for Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip during their visit to Toronto.
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In 2011, Lisa Ray acted in the stage play Taj, opposite Kabir Bedi at Luminato Festival, Toronto's International Festival of Arts and Ideas.
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Lisa Ray presented the 2011 IIFA Awards in Toronto, and was a co-presenter the 2011 Giller Prize along with singer-songwriter Nelly Furtado and roots rock guitarist Robbie Robertson.
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In 2012, Lisa Ray began hosting season two of Top Chef Canada, Food Network Canada's highest rated series.
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Lisa Ray played a crucial supporting role in 2017's Dobaara, the official Bollywood adaptation of supernatural horror film Oculus.
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On 23 June 2009, Lisa Ray was diagnosed with multiple myeloma, a cancer of the white blood cells known as plasma cells, which produce antibodies.
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In February 2012, Lisa Ray announced her engagement to management consultant Jason Dehni.
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In September 2018, Lisa Ray announced that she and her husband became parents to twin daughters via surrogacy, in June 2018.