Melinda Shankar
Biography
Melinda Shankar is a Canadian actress who started out as a child model in print advertisements before landing her first screen role in 2008 on the CTV series Degrassi: The Next Generation. She played Alli Bhandari for seven seasons, staying with the show until its finale in 2015. From 2009 to 2011 she led the YTV series How To Be Indie as Indira Mehta, a role that won her a Gemini Award in 2011 and then a Canadian Screen Award two years later. She also acted in Harriet the Spy: Blog Wars, a 2010 children's television movie, and made her feature debut in Festival of Lights that same year. Since 2018 she has played Bella in three Christmas with a Prince television movies. In 2025 she took the female lead as Sarah in the Christmas show Magic On Set.
34years old
Turns 35 on February 18in 139 days
- Born Ottawa
- Star sign: AquariusLast day of the sign, on the Pisces cusp
- Also credited as Melinda Leanna Shankar
Movie Career
- Films
- 6
- Career span
- 11 years2010 to 2021
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A change of course
Shankar's career began with child modeling. She was in many print advertisements, among them a Procter & Gamble billboard in Los Angeles.
First role
Shankar moved from Ottawa to Toronto at sixteen after she was cast in Degrassi: The Next Generation in 2008, leaving Sir Wilfrid Laurier Secondary School in grade 11.
Melinda Shankar movies on Netflix
Best known for
The films on Netflix they are best known for, with the part played in each.
Most often with
Justin G. Dyck directed three of these films. Four actors appear in three of them each. Pick a number on the chart or a name in the list to see the films they share.
Films together
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Josh Dean's page
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Mélanie St-Pierre's page
Justin G. DyckDirector, 3 films, 2017 to 2019
All films by Justin G. Dyck
Also two films together1 more actor
- Anastasia MarininaChristmas with a Prince: Becoming Royal (2019) and Christmas with a Prince (2018)
When several people share the same number of films, the ones with the most films on Netflix are in the chart.
Online
Official profiles and reference pages.