Known For: Canadian actress (born 1972)
Category: Actresses
Occupation: actor, model, film actor
Country: United Kingdom
City: Toronto
Date of Birth: Tuesday, 04 April 1972
Lisa Rani Ray is a Canadian actress. She began her modelling career in India in the early 1990s, appearing for leading Indian brands like Bombay Dyeing and Lakmé. She made her acting debut in 1994 in the film Hanste Khelte. Through her acting career, Ray has demonstrated a penchant for issue-oriented portrayals, most notably in the 2005 Oscar-nominated Canadian film Water and the award-winning South African feature The World Unseen, described by a reviewer as "one of the best-conceived queer films of the past year."
| BirthPlace | Toronto |
| Education | Q4671474, Q5404737, Q7331121 |
| Website | http://www.lisaraywrites.com/ |
| Wikipedia | Lisa_Ray |
Ray was born in Toronto to a Bengali Hindu father and a Polish Catholic mother and grew up in the suburb of Etobicoke. She spoke Polish with her maternal grandmother and watched movies of Federico Fellini and Satyajit Ray with her cinephile dad. During her childhood she spent some time in Calcutta. She 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.
