Zenobia Shroff

Zenobia Shroff is an actress and former model who was born in India and is American. She started working at sixteen as a commercial print model, then turned to acting after seven years. Her early training came in Mumbai with Pearl Padamsee, followed by study at Circle in the Square Theatre School in New York City. She performed at the Broadway Castillo Theatre, including as Nora in A Doll's House, and appeared at La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club. Her film debut was Percy (1989). In 2007 she played Roxanne in Little Zizou, earning a best actress nomination at the New York Indian film festival. She later appeared in Ek Main Aur Ekk Tu (2012), and in 2017 she played Kumail Nanjiani's mother in The Big Sick, whose cast received a Screen Actors Guild Award nomination. She voiced a counselor in Soul (2020), played Muneeba Khan in Ms. Marvel, and returned to the role in The Marvels (2023).