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Vee Kumari

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Vee Kumari
Vee (Vijaya) Kumari is known for HALWA, which received HBO's 2019 APAV award. Kumari was the executive producer and lead. The short film played at over 50 film festivals and received several awards. Recently, Vee completed the production of her second short film, titled "YATRA: Journey", the story of a grieving widow who goes on an epic journey into the mythical world of the Ramayana in search of two missing boys, and, while saving them, learns life lessons and finds resolution to her heartache.

Vee has also been a Co-Star in TV shows that include GLOW, Anger Management, Teachers, and Criminal Minds, among others.

Vee spent over three decades as a neuroanatomy professor, a neuroscience researcher, and, for ten of those years, as an Associate Dean for Medical Education at the University of California Davis Medical Center in Sacramento, CA. She has received many teaching awards during this period. In 2008, she moved to Los Angeles to be closer to her daughters and grandsons, and taught at USC Keck School of Medicine for five years. In 2012, she retired to pursue a career of acting and writing. She calls this "a journey from the left side of my brain to the right". She has two daughters. Suju Vijayan, a film and TV writer/director/producer, and, Shalini Vijayan, a violinist. She has two grandsons, Ashok and Rohan.
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Known for

Rayaan Kamal Khan, Suriyan Di Ianni, Mariel Flores, Vee Kumari, Aroon Nayer, and Asit Vyas in YATRA: The Journey
YATRA: The Journey
Short
  • Padma
    Halwa (2018)
    Halwa
    7.8
    Short
    • Sujata
    • 2018
    Jackie Tohn, Alison Brie, Sydelle Noel, Kia Stevens, Betty Gilpin, Kate Nash, Britney Young, and Gayle Rankin in GLOW (2017)
    GLOW
    8.0
    TV Series
    • Dry Cleaner
    Criminal Minds (2005)
    Criminal Minds
    8.1
    TV Series
    • Sita Patel(as Vijaya Kumari)

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    Actress

    • Linda Evans Is My Spirit Animal
    • Scrambled
      • Post-production
    • Hollywood Hopeful
      • Completed
    • YATRA: The Journey
      • Completed
    • Anosmia
      • Post-production
    • Real Tears (Real Kaneer)
      • Post-production
    • Breaking Tradition
      • (as Vijaya Kumari)
      • Post-production
    • In Her Wake
      • Completed
    • A Kind of Love Letter
      • In Production
    • Speak to Me
    • Chai
    • Lawrence Kao and Porter Duong in SHELL (2022)
      SHELL
    • Here Lies Amy
    • Awaken (2021)
      Awaken
    • The Last Act of Ruby Hayward (2021)
      The Last Act of Ruby Hayward
    • Nima's Beauty Shop
    • Do You Know What Happens When Our Body Is Dying? (2021)
      Do You Know What Happens When Our Body Is Dying?
    • Mango Baby (2020)
      Mango Baby
    • Halwa (2018)
      Halwa
    • Perception (2018)
      Perception
    • Jackie Tohn, Alison Brie, Sydelle Noel, Kia Stevens, Betty Gilpin, Kate Nash, Britney Young, and Gayle Rankin in GLOW (2017)
      GLOW
    • Teachers (2016)
      Teachers
    • Roger C. Ambrose, Elliott Mayer, Vee Kumari, Melody Peng, Harry Howard, Yvette De Vito, Todd Lien, Mohit Soni, Alexis Silvestre, Chang Hyun Park, Eric Sahlstrom, and Kim Tillman in Hinjews (2017)
      Hinjews
    • Girls Like Magic (2017)
      Girls Like Magic

    Writer

    • YATRA: The Journey
      • Completed

    Producer

    • Halwa (2018)
      Halwa
    • The Playback Singer (2013)
      The Playback Singer
      • (as Vijaya Kumari)
    • In-development projects at IMDbPro

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