Sameera Reddy

Sameera Reddy is an Indian actress and trained classical dancer who entered film after a music video brought her notice. She appeared in more than fifteen films within four years and was considered one of India's top actresses. In the controversial blockbuster Musafir, she played a rape victim seeking revenge. She had a double role in the art house film Kaalpurush, playing a middle-class housewife and a prostitute; that film won the National Award, India's highest award, and earned praise on the festival circuit. The Toronto Film Festival in 2007 included two independent films with her: Migration, a short by Mira Nair in which she played a housewife, and The Voyeurs, her second collaboration with Buddhadeb Das Gupta. She was the subject of the BBC documentary Spice Trade and was asked to guest star on the series Casualty.