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Ira Dubey | |
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 Dubey on Lakme Fashion Week 2017 | |
| Born | |
| Nationality | Indian |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Mother | Lillete Dubey |
| Relatives | Neha Dubey (sister) Lushin Dubey (aunt) |
Ira Dubey is an Indian actress who has appeared on TV, in theatre [1] and in Bollywood films.
Dubey was born in Delhi, India to Ravi Dubey and Lillete Dubey, an actress. She has one sister, Neha Dubey.
Being involved in performance since the age of six, Dubey has had a career in both film and theater. At Yale, she trained in speech and movement development, Shakespeare, Meisner and the Michael Chekhov acting technique along with other acting theories. She performed in over ten productions there, including A Midsummer Night's Dream, Othello, The House of Bernarda Alba and Beckett's shorts.
Dubey's theatrical work in India includes Womanly Voices, 30 Days in September, Wedding Album, Adhe Adhure and August: Osage County with the Primetime Theatre Company; The President Is Coming with QTP productions and The Maids with the Industrial Theatre Company. Since 2014 she has been performing and touring with the internationally acclaimed one woman show, Heather Raffo's 9 Parts of Desire, directed by Lillete Dubey, which has been hugely appreciated by audiences and critics alike across India and South Africa. She appeared in Tennessee Williams' Glass Menagerie, directed by Rajit Kapur, and played Portia in Vickram Kapadia's production of William Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice. She played Nora in Pushan Kripalani's production of Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House.
Her film credits include Marigold (2007) directed by Willard Caroll and The President Is Coming (2009) produced by Rohan Sippy and directed by Kunal Roy Kapoor.
She played the role of Pinky Bose in the movie Aisha (2010), which was directed by Rajshree Ojha, in which she starred alongside Sonam Kapoor and Abhay Deol.
She also featured in Graveyard Shift, an independent film written and directed by Ahmed Fiyaz; M Cream , an English film written and directed by Agneya Singh, produced by Agniputra Films and co-starring Barry John, Tom Alter, Lushin Dubey, and Imaad Shah (winner, Best Feature Film, Rhode Island International Film Festival); Dilliwali Zaalim Girlfriend , written by Manu Rishi Chadda, directed by Dubai-based Japinder Baweja and Best Actress Award at the third Indian Cine International film festival.
She has been a film critic on television for Sony Pix for a weekly show called Chicks on Flicks for a total of 108 episodes. She spent the summer of 2014 training at the Stella Adler Studio of Acting in New York in the Chekhov Intensive Workshop, and trained at Adishakti in the autumn of 2015 in Pondicherry, India. She recently finished shooting Mahesh Dattani's 30 days in September, a poignant story about child sexual abuse in which she plays the lead, for Zee TV.
In 2016, in addition to playing Nora in A Doll's House, she completed shooting for two feature films, Dharma & Red Chillies Productions' Dear Zindagi , directed by Gauri Shinde and starring Alia Bhatt and Shah Rukh Khan and an independent feature film, Shehjar, directed by Nikhil Allug, [2] in which she plays the lead. [3]
She currently hosts a show for Zee TV called A Table for Two. [4]
| † | Denotes films that have not yet been released |
| Year | Title | Role | Notes | Ref |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | Marigold | |||
| 2009 | The President Is Coming | Archana Kapoor | ||
| 2010 | Aisha | Pinky Bose | [ citation needed ] | |
| 2011 | Turning 30 | Yamini Punjwani | ||
| 2012 | M Cream | Jay | [5] [6] | |
| 2015 | Dilliwali Zaalim Girlfriend | Nimmy | [7] | |
| 2015 | Aisa Yeh Jahaan | Ananya Saikia | ||
| 2016 | Dear Zindagi | Fatima/Fatty | [8] [9] | |
| 2017 | Shehjar | Mariyam | [10] | |
| 2022 | The Daughter | Short | [11] |
| Year | Title | Role | Platform | References |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | Apna Apna Style | Kavita | Zee TV | |
| 2019 | Parchhayee- Ghost Stories by Ruskin Bond | Rima/Rosie | ZEE5 | |
| 2021, 2023 | Potluck | Akanksha Shastri | Sony LIV | [12] |
| 2023- | Scoop | Anita Mohan | Netflix | [13] |
| 2024- | Freedom at midnight | Fatima Jinnah | SonyLIV | [14] [15] |
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