Sophiya Haque

dynamic player who succeeded in Bollywood films, musicals in the West End and Coronation Street

Sophiya Haque performance in Peter Nichols Privates on Parade, which opened last month at Noel Coward Theatre, marked a turning point in the career of British actor West End Asian beautiful, launched for 10 years with the introduction of Andrew Lloyd Webber's Bombay Dreams. As the brilliant Welsh Eurasia Sylvia Morgan, Haque took place between the knobbly knees soldiers, led by Simon Russell Beale Captain Terri Dennis outrageous. However, illness forced her to withdraw from the production before the end of the year who died of cancer at the age of 41.

Born in Portsmouth, Haque was the youngest of three daughters. She was raised by her mother, Thelma, a professor divorced. Priory Comprehensive School attended and took dance lessons at the age of two years at the school of Mary Forrester arc dance before going to the age of 13 in London (where he lived with his father, Amirul Haque a restaurateur, and his second wife), full-time training at the School of Arts education. At night, she wrote and recorded songs with the band as a vocalist Akasa which led to a contract with WEA Records in the United Kingdom in 1988.

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Akasa One Night In My Life, directed by the great cinematographer Jack Cardiff, has attracted the attention of MTV Asia and Haque was hired as a presenter at Star TV in Hong Kong 1992, reaching to be known as the first lady of television music shows broadcast daily in 53 countries.

since 1994, began to appear on television in India and in 1997 he moved to Mumbai to work full time on Channel V India service. His first Bollywood film was Khoobsurat (1999), starring Sanjay Dutt Indian, and later made several others, including The Rising (2005), with Aamir Khan as a hero of the Indian Rebellion of 1857.

She was a big star when he returned to the UK in 2002 to appear in Bombay Dreams - first in a small part, understudying the lead role, Rani, knowing she would s' care for six months. The program uses music by AR Rahman, with a book by Meera Syal and Don Black's words. Everyone had their favorite scenes: the sequence exciting higher education, dancing around the main sources of growth wet saris or the overwhelming number Shakalaka baby

Bombay dreams suggests a new direction for British Asian music dynamic, but this initiative was a setback in the vehicle Haque featuring next. In an adaptation of the British Raj bestselling novel The Far Pavilions MM Kaye at Shaftesbury in 2005, played a wicked stepmother who seduces a maharaja with his dance routine.

• Haque chained in Coronation Street in 2008, appearing for six months as Poppy Morales, a waitress at the Rovers Return, which was responsible for cooking one of the most popular characters in the series, veteran Betty Williams (Betty Driver). She also had a small role in the movie Wanted (2008), starring Angelina Jolie, Morgan Freeman and James McAvoy.
• His musical career has been the scene back on track in Britain Got Bhanghra (2010) by Pravesh Kumar and Sumeet Chopra at Theatre Royal Stratford East, which traced the fate of a Indian immigrant and grew kind of Punjabi music in Britain over the last 30 years. She played a ruthless businessman bhangra realize that means a lot of money that Michael Billington described as a "blood transfusion" for British music.

Later that year, she appeared in Gandhi and coconut by Bettina Gracias, one of the last productions of the ancient theater Arcola in Dalston, east London. She played a housewife depressed and lonely, fleeing to India from your imagination when Mahatma Gandhi and the Hindu gods Shiva and Kali pop up unexpectedly for tea.

In 2012, he returned to the forefront of Wah! Wah! Girls by Tanika Gupta (book and lyrics) and Niraj Chag (music), a show lush, colorful dance, produced by the Theatre Royal Stratford East, with Sadler Wells, directed by Emma Rice, Kneehigh Theatre at the Peacock in the world stage London festival. Recorded music and feminist evolution of social dynamics in India as refracted through End of London is the argument. Haque was nothing sensational as Soraya, owner of a dance club whose own is an act of intense sensuality and erotic challenge incredibly proud. The choreography was left on Bombay Dreams, the development of a new language stage show routines and kathak disco.

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