Tiya Sircar

Tiya Sircar
Sircar at Young Hollywood Awards Red Carpet in 2009
Born	(1982-05-16) May 16, 1982 (age 34) Fort Worth, Texas, U.S.
Occupation	Actress
Years active	2007–present

Tiya Sircar (born May 16, 1982) is an American actress. She is best known for her roles in The Internship, 17 Again, and the series Vampire Diaries.

Sircar was born in Fort Worth, Texas of Indian Bengali descent. The daughter of two college professors, Sircar became involved in the performing arts at the age of three. She began with dance (first Indian classical and folk dance, then ballet, jazz, lyrical and modern) but after taking her first acting class at age seven, she realized that acting was the craft she wanted to cultivate into a career.

Sircar attended the University of Texas at Austin, receiving two bachelor's degrees: one in Business/Marketing, the other in Theater & Dance. While there, she was a Texas Spirit. After college, she moved to Los Angeles to realize her dream of being a professional actor.

Sircar has appeared in a wide variety of television shows such as House MD, Hannah Montana, Greek, Moonlight, Numbers, Privileged, Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, and was a recurring character on The Suite Life on Deck. In 2008, she played a Mac Genius as part of Apple’s national ad campaign. The following year, she voiced an animated character for the Disney show Phineas & Ferb. She was cast in New Line Cinema's 17 Again as "Samantha"–a high school senior with a crush on the lead character played by Zac Efron.

In the summer of 2009, Sircar introduced fans to her passion for the environment and vast fashion and beauty sense when she was asked to write as a Guest Celebrity Editor for online beauty magazine Beauty Blitz. She informed her readers on the best eco-friendly spas, her favorite organic beauty products and essential animal friendly labels.

Sircar appeared on Season One of the Lifetime's Witches of East End. She also recently completed production on an indie comedy entitled Miss India America. This marks Sircar's first lead role in a feature film. The film's cast also includes Hannah Simone from Fox's New Girl who also served as an executive producer.