Uzma Gillani, a veteran Urdu television actress, was born in Meerut, British India, on December 1. She married Inayat Shah Gillani in 1965 before starting her television career. If there is one actress that epitomizes the term "legendary" in the world of Pakistani television, it is without a doubt Uzma Gillani. Uzma, one of Pakistan's most accomplished and inspiring actresses,...
Nighat Butt, a Pakistani actress and singer, was born in 1948 in Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan. She graduated from the University of Lahore, and started stage acting in 1960. Initially, she sang songs in movies and then worked as a lead role in some of Abid Ali’s TV dramas. She worked in Punjabi, Urdu, and Pashto films. She also appeared in...
Laila Wasti is a 90s Pakistani actress and director. She was born on 3 June 1977, in Karachi, Pakistan. She completed her gradauation in English, at Saint Josheph Convent. Later, she went to University of California, Los Angeles, for her masters in filmmaking. Her father Rizwan Wasti, and mother Tahira Wasti were also actors. She has two older siblings, Rehan...
Bushra Ansari is the daughter of noted Pakistani writer and journalist Ahmad Bashir. She was born in Karachi on February 16, 1954. She did her schooling in Lady Griffin's School at Lahore and from her early childhood started performing in movies and theatres as a child artist. She completed her intermediate from lahore College of Women University and has a...
Maria Wasti, born on 14th August 1971, is a Pakistani Television & Film actress and host. Pakistan’s first private (non-government owned) channel launched in the 1990s, Network Television Marketing, featured contents that grasped attention and interests of the younger generation of the society, and hence, fascinated Maria to become an actress. Maria has done over 50 serials and a huge...
Khayyam Sarhadi is a well-known Urdu film and television actor who worked on over 200 stage plays and about 300 television shows. Khayyam Sarhadi was born to Zia Sarhadi, Pakistani screenwriter and director, and Zahira Ghazvani, also a writer, on the 12th June 1948 in Bombay, India. He moved to Pakistan in 1956. He is the grandson of the British Indian musician...
Asif Raza Mir is a producer and actor in the Pakistani film and television industry. He also simultaneously acted in some Hindi movies. He was born on the 26th of September 1959 in Karachi, Pakistan. His father Raza Mir was a movie director and cinematographer for the first-ever Pakistani film “Teri Yaad” (1948). Asif's wife is Samra Raza Mir....