Seema Rahmani
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| Born | 3 December 1969 Kuwait |
| Nationality | Indian-American |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 2000 - present |
| Website | http://www.seemarahmani.com/ |
Seema Rahmani is an American (of Indian descent) film actress, television presenter, writer, producer, director, singer, event host, poet, and a philanthropist.
She lives both in India and in the U.S.
While her family background links to Pune, Maharashtra, Seema was born and raised in Kuwait where her father worked with an oil company and her mother as an English teacher in a Kuwaiti government high school. She did her initial schooling at Indian School, Salmiya, Kuwait, after which she left Kuwait to be in the U.S. when she was 15. She completed high school in Newark, New York, then a Bachelor of Science with a minor in Mathematics at State University of New York at Fredonia, and an M.A. in Marketing Advertising from Emerson College in Boston. She enjoyed a corporate PR career for a couple of years before she started her acting career.
Seema took leave from her Public Relations corporate job in L.A. in 1997 to travel. While in Barcelona, Catalonia she decided to return and join theater in Los Angeles. She landed stints in two television serials - Alias for ABC and Roswell for Warner Brothers 2000-2001. Rahmani moved to India in 2003 and immediately landed work in films such as Zee TV Films' Arjun Varma and Missed Call by Mridul Toolsidas and Vinay Subrmanium, which was adjudged the Best International film at Israel's Red Sea International Film Festival. She was noticed for her fluency in exploring a character's vulnerability in Vinod Pande's true-story inspired Sins in 2005. Then came Loins of Punjab Presents in 2007, which won the Audience Award for best feature film at the Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles. These films gave her recognition and drew the attention of independent filmmakers looking for an effortlessly natural actor and a quintessential Indian face.
Her work between 2007-2012 as host/anchor of the hit TV show Heavy Petting on NDTV Good Times brought her recognition both as a television presenter and spokesperson for animal-compassion and rights.
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