Rebecca Hazlewood

Rebecca Hazlewood (born April 9, 1977) is an English actress. She was born in Wales and grew up in Kingswinford in the West Midlands. She is of mixed English and Indian descent.

Acting career

Hazlewood is best known in the UK for her roles as Beena Shah in Crossroads and Arun Parmar in Bad Girls.[1] In the United States she's best known for her role as Asha in the NBC sitcom Outsourced.[2][3]

Her other roles include Talia Ahmed in the ITV series Second Sight alongside Clive Owen, in the Masters of the Universe BBC1 week-long series in January 2010 as college lecturer Sia and the 2001 British Film 4 feature Dog Eat Dog with David Oyelowo, Gary Kemp and Ricky Gervais. In 2006 she featured as Beth in Meeting Helen with Madeleine Potter and Emily Woof which was filmed by DP Christopher Doyle. She appeared in a lead role in the film Kissing Cousins.

In 2007, Hazlewood played young Parin in The Ode, based on the novel Ode to Lata by Ghalib Shiraz Dhalla. In 2008, Hazlewood appeared in Season 14 of the NBC drama ER, portraying Jaspreet, a cousin of Neela's, who came straight from India in order to avoid an arranged marriage. In 2009, Hazlewood appeared as Nalini, an Ajira Airways ticket agent in Season 5 of Lost. In 2011, Hazlewood appeared as Meera in Embrace, written, directed and produced by Ghalib Shiraz Dhalla. In 2012, Hazlewood guest starred on Grey's Anatomy, episode 17, "One Step Too Far". In 2013, Hazlewood guest-starred on the White Collar season 5 episode "Digging Deeper". She appeared in the film Equals.

She guest starred in season 1 episode 5 of "The Good Place" as Kamilah, who is the famous rockstar sister of Tahani, portrayed by Jameela Jamil

References

  1. ↑ Marlow, Viv (2005) "Nicola's good at being a bad girl", Manchester Evening News, 17 May 2005, retrieved 2011-07-25
  2. ↑ Fernandez, Maria Elena (2010) "NBC orders three new series for next season", Arizona Daily Sun, 9 May 2010, retrieved 2011-07-25
  3. ↑ Pedersen, Erik (2010) "Outsourced -- TV Review", The Hollywood Reporter, 15 October 2010, retrieved 2011-07-25
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