Zara Sheikh

Zara Sheikh
Occupation	Model, Actress
Years active	2001-present

Zara Sheikh (Urdu: زارا شیخ‎) is a Pakistani model, actress and singer.

Sheikh has acted in films such as Tere Pyar Mein, Salakhain and Laaj.

Sheikh made her cinema screen debut in 2001, through Hassan Askari's Tere Pyar Mein, in which she played the role of an Indian Sikh Girl, who falls in love with a Pakistani banker. Sheikh received Best Actress award for her role in the film.

In 2002, she appeared in Sajjad Gul's Chalo Ishq Larain (Let's Love). A year later, in 2003, Sheikh played the part of a Hindu girl, Ram Khori, who converts to Islam - in Laaj, (Honour) a historical, part-religious tale.

In 2004, Sheikh worked in the 150 minute, Shahzad Rafique-directed Salakhain (translated as The Bars), which was screened at the 5th KaraFilm Festival in Karachi.

In 2006, Sheikh played the role of a girl-in-love in the Mubasher Lucman-directed Pehla Pehla Pyar (The First Love), a film partly filmed in Thailand, Speaking of her experience, post-production, Sheikh said, "It's not easy to work with Mubasher. He's motivated by his film a lot and does not believe in any compromises." She also stated that, at one point she had worked twenty-eight hours at a stretch, but that when I saw the result on the screen afterwards, I was in tears because it was clearly worth it."

In 2008, she starred in Javed Raza's Kabhi Pyar Na Karna (Don't Ever Love).

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