Mala Ghedia

Mala Ghedia , actually Mumta Premji Ghedia (born January 18, 1976 in Leeton , New South Wales ) is an Australian actress and voice actress with Indian roots.

Career

At the age of 16, Ghedia took part in an open casting for the Australian soap opera Home and Away , and qualified out of 2000 for the role of Monique . She then studied at the University of Sydney , where she graduated with a Bachelor in Communication. She then moved to England and was trained at the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art in London .

In addition to her native English , she speaks German , Gujarati , Hindi (basic knowledge), as dialects and accents, she also speaks Australian (innate), American, British and Indian.

In the US sitcom The Big Bang Theory , she is the German dubbing voice of Raj's sister Priya.

She gives lessons in drama and Bollywood dance at schools in Berlin and teaches children's drama in English at her own school, Malas Playhouse .

In 2010 she played the leading female role of Naina at the side of Wim Wenders in "Snowblind", the first German complete green screen film production.

Private

Ghedia is the fourth of six children born to Indian parents. Her father is a country doctor, her mother initially worked as an office assistant, later as a teacher. The role as a doctor in the series Jindabyne - Somewhere in Australia is loosely based on her father's biography. She has lived in Berlin since July 2007 .

Work

Movie and TV

• 1992: Home and Away (TV series, one episode)
• 2003-2004: Holby City (TV series, 2 episodes)
• 2006: Jindabyne - Somewhere in Australia
• 2007: Lovers Dusk (short film)
• 2009: Ines Müller: Worst Actress in the World (short film)
• 2010: Snowblind
• 2017: No Heart for Indians (TV movie)

theatre

• David Copperfield (2000, Chanticleer Theater, UK)
• A Lie Of The Mind (2000, Drayton Theater, GB)
• Andromache (2000, Living Pictures Prod., GB)
• Fourteen Songs (Bollywood musical) (2001, Tamasha Theater Co., GB)
• Hijra (2002, West Yorkshire Playhouse, GB)
• Midnight's Children (2003, Royal Shakespeare Company , UK); Author: Salman Rushdie
• Snow White (2007, Galli Theater, Germany)
• Little Red Riding Hood (2007, Galli Theater, Germany)
• The Harvest Chamber (2008, English Theater, Berlin)
• Frog Me (2008, Galli Theater, Germany,) also directed
• Dream Beach (2009, Platypus Theater, Berlin)
• Hybrid Arts Festival (2009, Radial System V, Berlin)
• See You Later Navigator (2012, Platypus Theater, Berlin)
• Faust In The Box (July 2013, English Theater Berlin)

Others

• MTN News (1997, presenter)
• Good Morning Australia (2002, presenter), TV
• The Big Bang Theory (2010–2011, voice actress), TV
• Eat Pray Love (2010, voice actress), cinema

Web links

• Mala Ghedia in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Mala Ghedia in the online film database
• Official website
• Her drama school website
• Profile on Stimmrechte.de
• Profile Talent-Scout.eu

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Profile on IMDB.com. Retrieved June 7, 2013.
2. ↑ ^{a b} Own profile  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved June 7, 2013.  
3. ↑ Voting Profile Accessed June 7, 2013.
4. ↑ Vita  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved June 7, 2013.  
5. ↑ Platypus Theater  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved June 7, 2013.  
6. ↑ Description of the film: Snowblind on Moviepilot.de. Retrieved June 8, 2013.
7. ↑ Midnight's Children on TotalTheater.com. Retrieved June 8, 2013.
8. ↑ Galli English Theater presents: Frog Me - Berlin ( Memento of the original from July 9, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on ToyTownGermany.com. Retrieved June 8, 2013. 
9. ↑ Event Report / -ankündigung on Kulturkurier.de. Retrieved June 8, 2013.
10. ↑ Puppet Theater: Faust In The Box  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on BerlinerBühnen.de. Retrieved June 8, 2013.