Lisa Ray

Lisa Rani Ray (born 4 April 1972)[1] is an Indian Canadian actress, author, columnist, model, performer, philanthropist, social activist, television and theater personality. Ray begun her modelling career in the early 1990s, appearing for leading Indian brands like Bombay Dyeing and Lakmé. Alongside, she made her acting debut in 1996 in the Tamil film Nethaji. Her first Bollywood appearance was in 2001, in the offbeat romantic thriller Kasoor.[3] Through her acting career, Ray has demonstrated a penchant for issue-oriented portrayals, most notably in the 2005 Oscar nominated Canadian film Water and the award-winning South African feature The World Unseen, described by a reviewer as "one of the best-conceived queer films of the past year."[4]

For the Indian American actress and fashion designer known professionally as LisaRaye, see LisaRaye McCoy.

Lisa Ray
Ray at the launch of TLC Oh My Gold in 2012
Born (1972-04-04) 4 April 1972
Toronto, Ontario, Canada[1][2]
OccupationActress, model
Years active2001—present
Spouse(s)
Jason Dehni
(
m. 2012)
Children2 (Sufi and Soleil)
Websitelisaraywrites.com

In 2009, Ray was diagnosed with multiple myeloma, an incurable form of blood cancer.[5] She began writing The Yellow Diaries, a blog about her experiences in living with cancer.[6] Her writing and columns have since regularly appeared in multiple major publications.[7][8] Ray remains an active advocate of stem-cell therapy[9] and has participated in several successful fundraisers and cancer awareness campaigns.

In 2011, Ray began hosting a popular travel show on Discovery Channel India[10] alongside appearing as host and judge in Food Network's highest rated show, Top Chef Canada.[11]

In 2016, Ray opened an Instagram account dedicated to poetry[12] In March 2019, Ray participated as a panelist on the 2019 edition of Canada Reads where she advocated for David Chariandy's award-winning second novel, Brother.[13]

In May 2019, Ray's first book, the memoir Close to the Bone, was published by Harper-Collins India. In October 2019, Ray signed up to write three more books with her publisher Harper-Collins.[14]

In 2020, Ray will be seen in the musical 99 songs, written and produced by A. R. Rahman.[15] She is also slated to reappear in season 2 of Amazon Prime Video web series Four More Shots Please![16]

Early life

Ray was born in Toronto to a Bengali father and a Polish mother[17] and grew up in the suburb of Etobicoke. She spoke Polish with her maternal grandmother and watched movies of Federico Fellini and Satyajit Ray with her cinephile dad.[2] During her childhood she spent some time in Calcutta.[18]

She excelled academically, doing five years of high school in four, while attending three different high schools: Etobicoke Collegiate Institute, Richview Collegiate Institute, and Silverthorn Collegiate Institute.[19]

Modelling, film and television

1991–2000

Ray's modelling career began when she was "discovered" during a family vacation in India while still in her teens. An advertisement for Bombay Dyeing where she appeared in a black swimsuit opposite Karan Kapoor earned Ray her first taste of public attention.[20][21][22][23] A subsequent meeting with Maureen Wadia, editor of Indian fashion magazine Gladrags, resulted in an iconic swimsuit cover that catapulted Ray to nationwide fame in India. "Most of my most fulfilling professional moments came to me via serendipity", Ray later wrote.[24]

By the time the Gladrags cover broke, Ray was already back in Toronto ready to begin university. Her plans were thwarted after a tragic auto accident that would consign her mother to a wheelchair for the rest of her life.[25][26] Ray returned to India and went on to become one of the country's first supermodels, and the face of Lakmé and Bombay Dyeing.[27] Ray would later acknowledge this coinciding of professional triumph and personal tragedy as a recurring theme in her life. "I have come to recognise that every major turning point in my life is preceded by pain", she wrote in Femina in 2016.[25]

As one of India's most successful cover models, Ray would subsequently lend her face to iconic global brands such as L’Oréal, MasterCard, De Beers and Rado.[28] A Times of India poll named her the "ninth most beautiful woman of the millennium," the only model in the top ten.[19] She co-anchored the TV show Star Biz on Star Movies[29] and appeared in a music video for Afreen Afreen, an iconic ghazal written by renowned lyricist Javed Akhtar, and composed and performed by Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan.

2001–2009
Lisa Ray being interviewed on The Hour

After turning down a number of roles,[30] Ray made her Indian Film Industry debut in 2001 with the Hindi film Kasoor, opposite Aftab Shivdasani,[20] in which her voice was dubbed by Divya Dutta, because she could not speak Hindi.[31] In spite of that, her performance received positive reviews.[32] Her work in the film also caught the eye of Deepa Mehta, who cast her in the romantic Indian-Canadian romp Bollywood/Hollywood in 2002.[2]

Realising that acting was something that she wanted to pursue more seriously, Ray moved to London to concentrate on a career in the performing arts. While there, Ray studied at the Central School of Speech and Drama, the London Centre for Theatre Studies, the Desmond Jones school of Physical Theatre, and BADA. She graduated from the Academy of Live and Recorded Arts (ALRA), in 2004, with a post-graduate degree in acting.[33] While studying, Ray made a conscious effort to not accept any film offers until she had graduated. However, while still at ALRA, she received another call from Deepa Mehta, who made her an offer she simply could not refuse—the lead role of Kalyani in Mehta's much-anticipated, and eventually highly controversial,[34] feature, Water.[33] In the film, Lisa spoke her lines in Hindi, although her voice was dubbed in the final cut.[31] Water released in 2005 to both national and global critical acclaim, with the venerable Roger Ebert describing it as "lovely in the way Satyajit Ray's films are lovely",[35]

Ray has since worked in productions from Canada, Europe, and the United States. Past roles include a farm girl in All Hat, a school teacher in A Stone's Throw, and a housewife in 1950s-apartheid South Africa in The World Unseen. In 2008 Ray starred, alongside Sheetal Sheth and Amber Rose Revah, in the Shamim Sarif directed British romantic comedy I Can't Think Straight that went on to win awards in queer film festivals worldwide, including Dallas OUT TAKES, Miami Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, and Tampa International Gay and Lesbian Film festival.[36]

After graduation, Ray based herself out of Milan, Paris, and New York from 2004–2008, returning to Toronto upon her mother's death in late 2008.[33] In 2007, Ray completed filming for Kill Kill Faster Faster, which is a contemporary film noir inspired by the critically acclaimed novel of the same name, by Joel Rose. She guest-starred in a 2009 episode of the USA Network series Psych,[37] and appeared in Woody Harrelson starrer Canadian-American superhero film Defendor.[38] Also in 2009, she starred in the Deepa and Dilip Mehta comedy Cooking with Stella.

Appearing at the 2009 Toronto International Film Festival in support of the film, Ray revealed that she had been diagnosed with multiple myeloma.[39]

2010s

On Christmas in 2009, Ray received a stem cell transplant to treat her rare cancer. In April 2010, she announced she was cancer-free due to the transplant. She gave a candid interview on her personal cancer trauma and surviving it, appearing on the cover of the 2010 anniversary issue of the Indian men's luxury magazine The Man.[40]

2010 saw Ray in UniGlobe Entertainment's cancer docu-drama titled 1 a Minute.[41] The documentary was made by Namrata Singh Gujral and featured cancer survivors Olivia Newton-John, Diahann Carroll, Melissa Etheridge, Mumtaz, Bárbara Mori and Jaclyn Smith, as well as William Baldwin, Daniel Baldwin, and Priya Dutt, whose lives have been touched by cancer. The feature was narrated by Kelly McGillis.

On 5 July 2010, Ray hosted an informal lunch for Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip during their visit to Toronto.[42]

In 2011, Ray acted in the acclaimed stage play Taj, opposite Kabir Bedi at Luminato Festival, Toronto's International Festival of Arts and Ideas.[43] Written by celebrated Canadian playwright John Murrell, Taj combined poetry, music, theatre, and the Indian classical dance form kathak.[44] The production was described by The Globe and Mail critic Deirdre Kelly "as luminous and poignant as the building that inspired it".[45]

In the same year, Ray appeared in Craig Goodwill's award-winning[46] fantasy drama short Patch Town, and a season 4 episode of Canadian Television period crime drama series Murdoch Mysteries, titled The Black Hand.[47]

She presented the 2011 IIFA Awards[48] in Toronto, and was a co-presenter the 2011 Giller Prize along with singer-songwriter Nelly Furtado and roots rock guitar legend Robbie Robertson.[49]

Also in 2011, Ray appeared as host and travel guide on Oh My Gold, a five part series on Discovery Travel and Living, now TLC India.

In 2012, Ray began hosting season two of Top Chef Canada, Food Network Canada's highest rated series. The season premiered in March 2012.[11]

Speaking to The Telegraph in 2012, Ray remarked, "I think every film that I’ve done so far has been a turning point because I experimented with each one and grew professionally. The movies I chose, dealt with a lot of thought-provoking subjects.[50]

In 2016, Ray starred in Ram Gopal Varma's Veerappan.[51] She also played a crucial supporting role in 2017’s Dobaara, the official Bollywood adaptation of supernatural horror film Oculus.[52]

Ray currently appears as part of an ensemble cast in the Amazon Prime Video web series Four More Shots Please![53] After a successful first season aired in over 200 countries and region, the series is slated to return for a second season.[54]

In 2020, Ray will be seen in A R Rahman's upcoming musical 99 songs.[55]

Writing

After her multiple myeloma diagnosis in 2009, Ray began The Yellow Diaries, a chronicle of her days with cancer. Right from the first entry on 6 September 2009, her writing struck a chord with readers, receiving more than 2000 comments in the first two weeks alone. Most of them were from fans she had never met, offering support and encouragement. Ray told CTV News she was "a little stunned" from the overwhelming response. "I'm putting a lot of energy into it because there's this community and support system out there, and this strange and wonderful phenomenon of people sharing and being really open," Ray told Canada AM in 2009.[56]

"I believe it can be cured," Ray wrote in her blog. "That's the Dirty Realist in me... I'm getting better. My prognosis, given my 'junior' status and stage of disease, is very good. I'm aiming for full remission".[57]

The blog received media attention early on, with Livemint describing Ray's writing as "Partly sardonic, partly heartbreaking".[58] An India Today cover story called it "Poignant, often heart-wrenching and always full of optimism and courage, the daily chronicling of her journey into the unknown".[59]

In 2010, Ray was declared cancer-free after a stem cell transplant and she was approached by HarperCollins to write a memoir. Ray began writing it in late 2010, but after submitting the manuscript, had an "instinctive reaction" which made her withdraw it and return to the drawing board. "… this was not the book I wanted to write", Ray said in a 2019 interview.[60]

Ray continues to write regularly for leading Indian and global publications such as Vogue India,[61] Femina,[25] Elle (India),[62] and Harper's Bazaar India.[63] On 16 January 2015, Ray started her own column in the Indian daily Daily News and Analysis.[64][65][66]

Alongside, she continued working on her withdrawn manuscript, using the ongoing events of her life – including a cancer relapse, remission, marriage and the birth of her children – as a lens to revisit her earlier life.[60]

In 2016, Ray made news when she started an Instagram account dedicated to her own poetry.[67][68]

IN 2017, the highly regarded Indian online arts journal The Punch Magazine published a selection of her poems.[69]

In May 2019, Ray's completed memoir, titled Close to the Bone, a wry reference to the bone marrow disorder that proved a profound turning point in her life, was published by HarperCollins, to positive reviews.[70][71][72] Actress Freida Pinto called it a"thrilling journey inwards as much as outwards". "Beautiful prose which is accessible, honest, often ironic and heartbreaking all at the same time", wrote filmmaker Deepa Mehta.[73] The Tribune described it as "Funny, charming, and gut-wrenchingly honest, all at once, Close to the Bone is Lisa Ray's brave and inspiring story of a life lived on her terms".[74] In an interview with the author, The Hindu Business Line felt the book was "as much a memoir as it is a travelogue, almost a geographical account of health and healing". In Ray's own words, "My journeys – both the inner and outer – have taken on a quality of questing. Embedded in them is an effort to reveal, unmask, celebrate, terrify and connect…"[75]

In October 2019, HarperCollins India announced the acquisition of three books by Ray. These include a work of non-fiction, a novel, and a collection of poems.

Philanthropy

Following her diagnosis, Ray started The Yellow Diaries, a highly influential blog chronicling her cancer experience.[76] She also became increasingly involved in philanthropic activities, and continues to use her position as a global celebrity to raise funds and generate awareness for multiple myeloma through both direct participation in campaigns and her own writing.

Ray went on to help raise funds for the establishment of the first research chair for multiple myeloma at Princess Margaret Hospital, Toronto.[77] She took part in Plan Canada's Because I am a Girl campaign, a global movement that fights for the rights of girls around the world who face discrimination because of their gender and age.[78] A part of the proceeds from her film, Cooking with Stella, went to the Los Angeles based Institute for Myeloma and Bone Cancer Research.[79]

In 2010, Ray attended the Estee Lauder Breast Cancer event to spread awareness about breast cancer.[80] As a long-time yoga practitioner, Ray partnered with co-owners Paris and Annette, in 2011, to open Moksha Yoga Brampton.[81]

Also in 2011, Ray became the face of jewellery brand Hillberg & Berk's 2011 campaign, with the brand donating $25 from the sale of each necklace to Multiple Myeloma Canada.[82][83]

Ray is an advocate for stem cell technology, recording a public service announcement for the McEwan Centre for Regenerative Medicine.[84][85] She also recorded a PSA on behalf of Myeloma Canada on the theme of Making Myeloma Matter.[86]

In September 2012, Ray was named ambassador for Pantene Beautiful Lengths in Canada, a charity campaign that asks people to grow and donate their hair to make real-hair wigs for women battling cancer.[87]

Raising Funds with Satya Paul

In 2012, Ray initiated an effort to fund the Indian Innovation Research Centre (IIRC). The IIRC is a non-profit cancer research body that began with the 'Living With Cancer' program that was initiated by Ray the same year.[88] Their mandate is to promote convergence of fundamental as well as translational cancer in India, it played an instrumental role in helping Lisa fight Multiple Myeloma and overcome a trying phase of her life.[89]

She partnered with Satya Paul to create a range of exclusive sarees for the wedding season. These sarees (that were worn by Lisa) were then auctioned online with 100% of the proceeds going to IIRC for the development of their cancer research.[90]

The Run 5K Walk

After being diagnosed with Multiple Myeloma, Ray launched The Princess Margret Run 5k Walk, an initiative to raise funds for MM patients. Multiple Myeloma although treatable has no cure, the walk was an event with a purpose to fund research at Bloom Share for Multiple Myeloma Research at the Princess Margret Hospital. The research would help develop drugs that could help MM patients stabilize their condition till the cure can be developed. The walk was a success pooling in money from across the county to help the cause.[91]

Greeniche

In 2015, Ray partnered with Canadian Health and Wellness brand Greeniche, a natural healthcare product brand with pure vegetarian formulas, managed by healthcare professionals.[92]

At the launch of the brand she commented "I'm honored to launch into a special role as wellness guru for Greeniche Naturals. As a cancer survivor, I have healed myself through nutrition, healthy choices and wellness techniques and now I can support others in living their life to the fullest by sharing tips online and through special videos. Hopefully these will help fuel your Passion for life."[93]

Beauty Gives Back

Ray joined the Beauty Gives Back campaign, which launched in Canada in 2015. The campaign addresses the cancer blues- the emotional fallout from cancer and its treatment. While launching the campaign Ray commented, "The beauty gives back campaign helps and motivates women to overcome the shackles of cancer and the process of its treatment. It seeks to give them their lost confidence back so that they continue their fight against the deadly disease with a new belief and dignity. It was an absolute honor to be the part of such a worthy cause which works towards giving face value to the emotional fallout from cancer."[94]

Personal life

On 23 June 2009, Ray was diagnosed with multiple myeloma, a cancer of the white blood cells known as plasma cells, which produce antibodies. It is a rare disease.[31][95] In April 2010, she announced that she was cancer-free, after a stem cell transplant.[96] As multiple myeloma is an incurable disease, Ray is not completely cured of the disease.[97]

In February 2012, Ray announced her engagement to management consultant Jason Dehni.[98] On 20 October 2012, Ray and Dehni (then a banking executive and philanthropist) were married in California's Napa Valley.[99][100]

In September 2018, Ray announced that she and her husband became parents to twin daughters via surrogacy, in June 2018.[101]

Awards
  • Voted Star of the Future at the 2002 Toronto International Film Festival,[102]
  • Top Ten most Beautiful Indian Woman of the Millennium by the Times of India
  • Won the Best Actress in a Canadian film for Water by the Vancouver Critics Circle[103]
  • Won 'Voice Achievers Award for 2009' for outstanding contribution in fields of film, trade, literature and sports[104]
  • Named one of Canada's 50 Most Beautiful Stars in Hello Canada's May 2009 issue.[105]
  • Honored with Fortis Lisa Ray Award for Conquering Cancer in 2010[106]
  • Honored with a Special Achievement Award at Miss India-Canada 2011[107]
  • Named one of Canada's 50 Most Beautiful Stars in Hello Canada's May 2012 issue.[108]
  • Honored with People's Choice Award at the 'Light of India' Awards 2012 in Arts & Entertainment section.[109]
  • Named one of Canada's 50 Most Beautiful Stars in Hello Canada's 2013 issue.[110]
  • Honored with the prestigious 'Diamond Jubilee Medal' in May 2013.[111]
  • Awarded the 'Facing Cancer Together' Look Good, Feel Better award in September 2012[112]
  • Won Anokhi Prestige award in 2013 in the category of Canadian Actor of the Decade for movie Water.[113]
  • Awarded prestigious 2014 Women of Action Honoree by Israel Cancer Research Fund.[114]
  • Awarded Medscape award for Most Inspirational Fighter of India 2015[115]

Philanthropy
  • 2009 : 5K Your Way Walk/Run, MMWalk for the Cure
  • 2009 : Plan Canada's 'Because I Am A Girl' campaign[116]
  • 2010 : Plan Canada's 'Because I Am A Girl' campaign[116]
  • 2010 : "1 a Minute", to inspire women and give them hope
  • 2010 : Estee Lauder Breast Cancer Awareness[117]
  • 2011 : 'Make Myeloma Matter' media campaign[118]
  • 2011 : Artbound, in support of Free The Children
  • 2011 : GIRL 20 SUMMIT
  • 2012 : BE FAIR 2 RARE[119]
  • 2012 : Wellspring Cancer 'Graduate' Fashion show
  • 2012 : "Rhythm and Soul"-THE SPARK GALA 2012, to Ignite A Child's Potential[120]
  • 2012 : Run or Walk, MM5K[121]
  • 2012 : Plan Canada's 'Because I Am A Girl' campaign[116]
  • 2012 : Ambassador for Pantene Beautiful Lengths campaign in Canada[87]

Filmography

Film
Year Title Role Notes
1996 Afreen Afreen Music Video
1996 Nethaji Priya Tamil film
1998 Jalwa Music Video
2001 Yuvaraja Lovely Kannada film
2001 Kasoor Simran Bhargav Hindi film
2002 Choron Ka Chor
2002 Takkari Donga Bhuvana Telugu film
2002 Bollywood/Hollywood Sunita "Sue" Singh
2004 Ball & Chain Saima
2005 Water Kalyani
2005 Seeking Fear Nina Atwal
2006 The Flowerman Louise Short film
2006 Quarter Life Crisis Angel Matthews
2006 A Stone's Throw Lia
2007 All Hat Etta Parr
2007 I Can't Think Straight Tala
2008 Kill Kill Faster Faster Fleur
2008 The World Unseen Miriam
2008 Toronto Stories Beth
2009 Defendor Dominique Ball
2009 Cooking with Stella Maya Chopra
2009 Somnolence
2010 Let the Game Begin Eva Stout
2010 Trader Games Sarah
2011 Patch Town Bethany Franks Short film
2016 Ishq Forever Naina Hindi film
2016 Veerappan Hindi film
2017 Dobaara Liza Merchant Hindi film
2019 99 Songs Hindi film

Television
Year Title Role Platform Notes
2007 Blood Ties Elena Citytv "Stone Cold"
2008 The Summit Rebecca Downy TV miniseries
2009 Psych Sita USA Network "Bollywood Homicide" S04E06
2011 Murdoch Mysteries Mirela Citytv "The Black Hand"
2011 Endgame Rosemary Venturi Showcase Regular role
2012–2014 Top Chef Canada Host Food Network Seasons 2–4
2019–2020 Four More Shots Please! Samara Kapoor Amazon Prime Video Season 1–2

Ambassador
  • Brand ambassador of Rado (watches) in India
  • Lisa named Ambassador for 'Pantene Beautiful Lengths' Campaign

See also

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