Lisa Ray is a Canadian-born Bollywood actress and model. She grew up in Toronto and is the daughter of a Bengali father and a Polish mother. She was born on April 4, 1970. Ray started her modeling career at age 16. She is 5' 5" with green eyes. She was the brand ambassador of Lakme,India. She did a lot of advertisements for Indian companies before becoming involved with Bollywood. She started her acting career with the film Kasoor(2001) opposite Aftab Shivdasani. She then starred as the female lead of Canadian director Deepa Mehta's romantic Indo-Canadian romp, Bollywood/Hollywood(2002). In 2005, she was working again with Mehta in her most recent film, Water. The film is about a Hindu widow played by Ray,who is left on the streets of Varanasi, where she is forced into prostitution. Ray starred opposite current Bollywood heart-throb, John Abraham. Although both seem to sizzle on screen, John says that, "This is not a romantic film, throughout the entire film, the closest Lisa and I get is to be holding hands." Lisa Ray has said that she wants to be a novelist with a base in Paris.

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