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Shruti Tewari

English Movie Actress Shruti Tewari
  • Gender : Female
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Shruti Tewari is an investment banker turned actress and theater personality. She was born in India and later moved to New York Click to look into! >> Read More... for higher studies. She is known for her side as well as lead roles in movies like " Love Aaj Kal Click to look into! >> Read More... " (2009), "Bicycle Bride" (2010), "Sati Shaves Her Head" (2011), "Khazana" (2014), "Persistence of Memory" (2015) and " Steve Jobs Click to look into! >> Read More... " (2015) to name a few. This talented actress, now a mother, is actively involved in theaters and movies. Shruti studied at Columbia University and then went on to become a successful investment banker in JP Morgan in New York. All the while she was connected with theater. In one such show, the casting director of the Bollywood movie, "Love Aaj Kal", approached her and offered her the side role of a counselor in the film.

Though she wasn’t noticed much in her debut, her next movie, "Bicycle Bride", brought her into the limelight. She played the lead role of Billo, the NY- based- Indian, anxious mom who wanted to get her young daughter married to a suitable man. The movie, directed by Hassan Zee, was awarded as the Best Feature Film in Soaiff Film Festival in 2010. Later in that year, she played the role of an abusive mother-in-law, Kanta, in "Foreign". She was praised for her role in the critically acclaimed film, "Khazana", where she played the role of Chand, a typically manipulative mother-in-law of the protagonist. She played the lead role of a programmer on the 2015 sci-fi short film, "Persistence of Memory". She was also seen in the 1998 Marketing Team of Apple Inc. in the Oscar- nominated biopic, "Steve Jobs", directed by Danny Boyle.

Other films include "On Golden Years" (2014), "Family Party" (2015) and "Cold Pressed" (release date yet to be declared). She has worked in several short films alike: "Dearly Departed" (2010), " Karma Click to look into! >> Read More... " (2011), "The Dance of Death" (2011), "Shaya" (2013), "Torn" (2013), "Where We Go From Here" (2014)," All Quiet on the Homefront" (2016), and "Wall of Barbies" (2016). Her list of theater works is also quite impressive, and the notable ones include "Baby Taj" by Theatre Works in Mountain View, CA, "Mirrors of Mumbai" by Opera Piccola in Oakland and Shakespeare’s "Twelfth Night", where she played Maria, in San Jose. Her most remarkable act was in " Aftermath Click to look into! >> Read More... ", where she played the protagonist Bassima- an Iraqi refugee woman who lost her husband and kids in a car bomb and got severely burned.

This role, Shruti says, had left a deep impact on her. Shruti Tewari is a trained Bharatnatyam dancer and took her acting course from Seydways Studios in 2011. Many don’t know that she had also worked in Doordarshan in India. Tewari covered the Mandira Bedi Fashion Show for Urban Asia, sponsored by Janata Connection and Jabong World, in Bay Area in 2015. Apart from acting, she had also worked in corporate industries like Polycom, Green Finance, and Global Meridian. This multi-talented woman received the Certificate of Appreciation from the County and City of San Francisco for contribution to the arts through mentorship in juvenile halls and was also featured in Desi Lifestyle Magazine for the cover story about South Asian Achievers. She is currently juggling parenthood with acting, mentorship in theater and working in finance.

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