1. Badar Khalil
Badar Khalil is a very famous television personality of Pakistan. She is a wonder woman who has been a part of the cinema industry since the year 1968. Badar Khalil’s birth name is Baddo Apa, and she was born in Lahore, Pakistan. Badar got married to the celebrated Pakistani Director Shahzad Khalil, who unfortunately passed away in the year 1988, at the age of forty-four.
...2. Sania Saeed
For the Karachi born Pakistani TV actress Sania Saeed, it was but natural that she would enter into enacting dramas, sooner or later. Coming from parents who were highly educated and soaked into drama, she picked up her threads early, while at the same time pursuing her studies. She made her first break into television in 1989 when she was 17, through a street theatre play called “Aurat”. In fact, Sania’s skills in drama were honed and polished by her participation in her father’s troupe, called Dastak.
Dastak was formed in the backdrop of the struggle for democracy in Pakistan in 1982, and it staged street theatre with the help of a closely knit group of volunteer human rights activists. It continued the struggle till 1988 helping to bring to an end Pakistan’s longest running autocratic rule. It was here that Sania learnt her first lessons in theatre by playing child characters in some of the Urdu versions of world famous plays, including those of Chekov and others.
However, it was actually about 4 years later that she shot into real prominence through her roles in the serial “Aahat” in 1991, followed the very next year by “Sitara Aur Mehrunissa” .
After these two landmark serials there was no looking back for her. She has a fair mix of TV dramas (about 30) and TV serials (about 16), but her association with TV does not end there, she took part in Talk Shows also, being eminently qualified for the same. She had never ignored her education and completed her course in Clinical psychology after her early education.
Her association with Dastak also extended even further, when she got her husband, writer director, Shahid Shafaat too, involved in the Dastak movement. Together they formed what was later christened as Katha, a grouping of working children from their hometown, trained into performing street plays. All in all, Sania Saeed is not just a TV personality, but a veritable movement, who with her father Mansoor Saeed and husband Shahid, has brought street theatre in Pakistan to a new level.
...3. Huma Nawab
Huma Nawab is a popular Pakistani actress. She was born on 1 December 1969, in Islamabad, Pakistan. She completed her graduation at the University of Islamabad. Huma’s mother, Fatima Nawab, was also an actress. Huma started her career with ‘Silsila’ in the 80s. She used to do theatre stage plays in her school. Huma was among the most famous actresses during the 80s and 90s. She worked in various Pakistani serials.
...4. Marina Khan
Marina Khan is a well-known television actress from Pakistan. The actress is also known as ‘Pink Panther’ for her role in the hit television series, ‘Tanhaiyan’ in the year 1985. Marina was born on 26th December in the year of 1962 in the city of Peshawar in Pakistan. She was born to an inter-culture family in which her mother was English and a Pakistani father. Her father was an army personnel and did his service in Pakistan Air Force. Due to her father’s job, Marina and her family had to move to different places in almost every two years.
...5. Mehreen Jabbar
Mahreen Jabbar is a New York-based TV Director/ Producer, born in December 1971 in Karachi, Pakistan. She grew around Pakistan's show business. She was highly influenced by her father, Javed Jabbar, a very successful filmmaker and a former Pakistani Senator and Cabinet Minister. She has a BA degree from Saint Joseph's College in Karachi. In 1993, she went to the USA for a two-year filmmaking program at the University of California, Los Angeles. She started as a producer and director for TasVeer productions. CAREER HISTORY She has 20 years of experience in the field and has made16 TV series, 11 TV films, 2 web series, and multiple shorts and medium-length films for TV; her work has been praised and loved by critics and the Box Office alike.
...6. Humayun Saeed
Humayun Saeed has been known famously across Pakistan and its film industry for his great acting skills and also as a producer of films. This talented and famous personality was born on the 27th day of July in the year 1971 in Karachi, Pakistan. Humayun is one of the five siblings that he has. Humayun studied in college for the degree of Bachelors in Commerce after which he started working at a factory for garments which was named H. Nizam Din (Pvt) Ltd for the post of a Production Manager for four years from 1991 to 1995. He entered the film industry through the movie Inteha in the year 1996. His debut TV play was Ye Jahan. Since then he has appeared in 64 television dramas and movies. When he decided to get into the film industry, his parents rebuked him and became disappointed with his decision.
...7. Shabbir Jan
Shabbir Jan is a Lollywood artist who is present in the field for the past twenty-nine years. He hails from Peshawar, Pakistan. He has been acting since the year 1970 and he has made his appearance in many movies. He is well-known for his humble nature and the hard working style among the Pakistan demographic. Shabbir has got a good reputation for his ace performance in movies like Umrao Jaan, Makan, Andata, Wafa, Jangloos, etc. He got nominated for the Best Actor award in the year 2002.
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