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Sarita Choudhury
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Actor Born: 1966 in London, England Biography:After her debut film "Mississippi Masala" (1992) became an art house hit, "Sarita Choudhury" was determined not to "go Hollywood," focusing her acting energies on independent film instead. Raised in Jamaica, Mexico, and Italy, the half-Indian, half-English Choudhury studied economics at Queens University in Ontario before switching to acting. She casually auditioned for "Mississippi Masala" and wound up cast as the lead opposite "Denzel Washington" in the singular interracial romance between a Southern African American man and a transplanted Indian woman. Despite the film's surprise success, Choudhury stuck to her non-Hollywood roots, putting her exotic looks and talent to versatile use as a Pakistani country-western singer in "Wild West" (1992), a Chilean maid in "Bille August"'s adaptation of "The House of the Spirits" (1993), and a lesbian mother in "Fresh Kill" (1994). Choudhury worked with... Full Biography
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