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.