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Shenaz Treasury
File:Shenaz Treasuryvala at Blackberry curve's launch party (1).jpg
Treasuryvala at Blackberry Curve launch party, April 2012
Born Shenaz Treasurywala
Mumbai, India
Occupation Actress, model and travel writer

Shenaz Treasury (last name also spelled Treasurywala and Treasuryvala)[1]) is an Indian model, travel writer and actress. She is currently a recurring contributor and panelist on The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore.

Career

Discovered by a photographer during her first year in college, her first modelling assignment was for the soft drink Gold Spot.[2] She also did advertising work for Akai and Philips[3] before MTV Networks Asia hired her to work as a VJ on the MTV's Most Wanted program.[2][4]

Her acting debut was in the 2001 Telugu film Eduruleni Manishi,[5] followed by the 2003 Bollywood film Ishq Vishk,[6] which earned her a nomination for the best supporting actress award by the Filmfare Film Awards.[7] With her lifelong love of travel,[4][8] she wrote travel articles for Cosmopolitan, Elle, and Femina.[9] As of the early 2010s, Treasurywala resides in Mumbai, India and serves as the host of Culture Shock on the Travel Channel.[9] In 2011, she got a recurring role as Rama Patel on the American soap opera One Life to Live. A few months later, she signed a contract with the show until its cancellation in 2012 and then returned as a contract player when the show started airing its webisodes in 2013.[10]

Treasury' returned to India to visit her family and was offered a leading role in Ishq Vishk after meeting director Ken Ghosh at a Mumbai night club.[6][8]

In 2009, she appeared in the films Aagey Se Right and Radio. She wrote the screenplay for and appeared in the 2011 movie Luv Ka The End. She also appeared in the movie Delhi Belly. She is part of the film Main Aur Mr. Riight .

As of 2015 she is a contributor on The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore on Comedy Central in the United States, where she also serves as a panelist periodically.[11]

Social activism

In December 2014, days before the release of her film Main Aur Mr. Riight (on 12 December), Shenaz Treasurywala wrote an open letter to the most powerful people of India including Narendra Modi (NaMo), Sachin Tendulkar, Amitabh Bachchan, Salman Khan, Sharukh Khan, Aamir Khan and Anil Ambani on women's safety in India.[12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19]

Personal life

Her father is a merchant marine engineer,[9] and she was born in a Parsi family.[3] Treasurywala attended school and college in Mumbai,[9] St. Xavier's College.[2] In 2001, she moved to New York City where she studied method acting at the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute.[20] While in New York, she also took a writing course at NYU.[20]

File:Shenaz Treasurywala at the Premiere of 'The Avengers' (14).jpg
Treasurywala at the premiere of The Avengers

Filmography

Year Production Role Sources
2001 Eduruleni Manishi Sri
2003 Ishq Vishk Alisha Sahay
2004 Hum Tum Shalini
2006 Umar Sapna P. Lakha
2009 Aagey Se Right Pearl
2009 Radio Shanaya Dhingra
2011 Luv Ka The End Ms. Naaz
2011 Delhi Belly Sonia
2011–2012, 2013 One Life to Live Rama Patel
2014 Main Aur Mr. Riight Aliya
2015 The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore Contributor

See also

References

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  7. ↑ 49th Filmfare Awards
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  10. ↑ [1] Archived 28 January 2011 at the Wayback Machine
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