Sitara Hewitt

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Sitara Hewitt (2012)

Sitara Hewitt (born December 27, 1981 in Elora , Ontario ) is a Canadian actress and model of Pakistani descent. She also appears under the name Tara Hewitt .

life and career

Sitara Hewitt was the daughter of Kenneth Hewitt , a Welshman, and his wife Farida Hewitt, who is Pakistani, in Elora, Ontario, where she also spent much of her childhood. Her parents are both professors at Wilfrid Laurier University . For some time she lived with her parents in the Himalayas , above all in the Gilgit-Baltistan region , where her parents did academic research.

Hewitt first appeared in front of the camera in 2002 when she took on the role of a dancer in the movie Bollywood Hollywood . This was followed by appearances in a few short films before she was seen in The Lookalike in 2006 . From 2007 to 2012 she worked as Rayyan Mamoudi in the CBC - comedy series Little Mosque seen. Further series appearances follow, for example in My Crazy Sex , Escape the Night or Criminal Minds . In addition to her acting appearances, Hewitt occasionally moderates television shows, for example for Sportsnet or the WWE .

In 2014 she voiced the video game Far Cry 4 .

Private

Hewitt was married to American actor Jessie Pavelka for a while before they divorced in 2016. During the marriage she lived alternately in Toronto and Los Angeles . She was brought up according to the Christian faith and speaks fluent Urdu and some Tibetan language Balti in addition to her mother tongue English .

Filmography (selection)

  • 2002: Bollywood Hollywood
  • 2003: Code (short film)
  • 2005: Sohni Sapna (short film)
  • 2005: Fragile (short film)
  • 2006: The Lookalike
  • 2007–2012: Our Little Mosque ( Little Mosque on the Prairie , TV series, 91 episodes)
  • 2011: Lost Girl (TV series, episode 2x11)
  • 2013: Cracked (TV series, episode 1x10)
  • 2013: Torment
  • 2015: Mikael
  • 2017: My Crazy Sex (TV series, episode 1x03)
  • 2017: Escape the Night (TV series, 2 episodes)
  • 2017: Criminal Minds (TV series, episode 13x05)
  • 2018: Shadow of Passion ( The Young and the Restless , TV series, 3 episodes)
  • 2018: Dirty John (TV Series) (TV Series, Episode 1x02)
  • 2019: The Fusion Generation
  • 2019: The Michael Jackson Magical Moon Tour

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Heidi McKenzie: Little Mosque's Sitara Hewitt heads home - to the GTA - for the holidays . In: Toronto Star , February 7, 2008. Archived from the original on August 13, 2007. Retrieved on October 17, 2017. 
  2. ↑ Farida Azhar-Hewitt: The Other Side of Silence: The Lives of Women in the Karakoram Mountains . iUniverse, 2011, ISBN 978-1450287678 , pp. xii-xvi.
  3. ↑ EGO Magazine: Sitara Hewitt ( Memento from September 28, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) EGO Magazine . October 8, 2008.
personal data
SURNAME Hewitt, Sitara
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hewitt, Tara (stage name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian actress, presenter and model
DATE OF BIRTH December 27, 1981
PLACE OF BIRTH Elora , Ontario , Canada