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Preeya Kalidas(I)

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Preeya Kalidas
Preeya Kalidas is a singer,actress,dancer.

Her credits cover stage,screen and television.

She was cast after a worldwide search in the leading role of Priya in AR Rahmans Bombay Dreams produced by Andrew Lloyd Webber.She sang the hit song Shakalaka Baby which won best video at MTV Asia Awards.

Also as part of the Brit-Asian success, Preeya also has been in international hit films Bend it Like Beckham and East is East, Bafta Award winning Britz, Bafta nominated BBC series Bodies,regular in popular series Mistresses and was cast most recently by Lloyd Webber to play the female lead,The Narrator, in the revival of Joseph and His Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat in Londons West End.

Preeya is also a recording artist.
BornJune 21, 1980
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Known for

Four Lions (2010)
Four Lions
7.3
  • Sofia
  • 2010
EastEnders (1985)
EastEnders
4.7
TV Series
  • Amira
  • Amira Masood
Bollywood Queen (2002)
Bollywood Queen
4.7
  • Geena
  • 2002
Parminder Nagra in Bend It Like Beckham (2002)
Bend It Like Beckham
6.7
  • Monica
  • 2002

Credits

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Actress

  • The Three Musketeers
    • Completed
  • Paso Doble
    • Completed
  • Hounslow Diaries (2018)
    Hounslow Diaries
  • New Blood (2016)
    New Blood
  • The Last Hours of Laura K (2015)
    The Last Hours of Laura K
  • West End Girls
  • Casualty (1986)
    Casualty
  • Bollywood Carmen (2013)
    Bollywood Carmen
  • EastEnders (1985)
    EastEnders
  • It's a Wonderful Afterlife (2010)
    It's a Wonderful Afterlife
  • Four Lions (2010)
    Four Lions
  • Mister Eleven (2009)
    Mister Eleven
  • Hotel Babylon (2006)
    Hotel Babylon
  • Orla Brady, Shelley Conn, Sarah Parish, and Sharon Small in Mistresses (2008)
    Mistresses
  • Britz (2007)
    Britz
  • Charlotte Rampling and Jean Rochefort in Twice Upon a Time (2006)
    Twice Upon a Time
  • Green Wing (2004)
    Green Wing

Soundtrack

  • EastEnders (1985)
    EastEnders
    • (uncredited)
  • At Home with the Braithwaites (2000)
    At Home with the Braithwaites
    • (uncredited)
  • Bollywood Queen (2002)
    Bollywood Queen
  • Omnibus (1967)
    Omnibus
  • In-development projects at IMDbPro

Personal details

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    • June 21, 1980
    • Isleworth, London, England, UK
  • Other works
    Apeared in the play "Eye Contact" at the Riverside Studio's Hammersmith, London UK in December 2000.
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    • 2 Articles
    • 1 Pictorial
    • 11 Magazine Cover Photos

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    Has been good friends with Charlie Brooks since they were children, attending the same theatre group.
    • Preeya Kalidas was born to Indian Gujarati parents in Isleworth and was raised in Twickenham, South-West London.

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