Rebecca Hazlewood

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Hazlewood in Sucking Is a Fine Quality in Women and Vacuum Cleaners, a 2006 short film

Rebecca Jane Hazlewood is a British actress.

Early life

Hazlewood was born in Wales and grew up in the village of Kingswinford in the Black Country, West Midlands. She is of Anglo-Indian descent. She was born into care and adopted through the Church Of England Society

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Career

Hazlewood was discovered by designer Caryn Franklin, who selected her to model on the BBC’s The Clothes Show while Hazlewood was skipping school.[ citation needed ]

On British television, Hazlewood played Arun Parmar in the psychodrama Bad Girls. [1] In the United States, she played Asha in the NBC sitcom Outsourced, [2] [3] which aired for one season.

Other early work included acting as Talia Ahmed in the ITV series Second Sight alongside Clive Owen, in the Masters of the Universe a special BBC week-long series in January 2010 as college lecturer Sia and the 2001 British Film4 feature Dog Eat Dog with David Oyelowo, Gary Kemp and Ricky Gervais. In 2006 she featured as Beth in Meeting Helen. She appeared in a lead role in the indie feature film Kissing Cousins.

In 2007, Hazlewood played young Parin in The Ode , based on the novel Ode to Lata by acclaimed novelist Ghalib Shiraz Dhalla. In 2008, Hazlewood appeared throughout Season 14 of the NBC drama ER , portraying Jaspreet, a wayward cousin of Neela's, who came straight from London in order to avoid an arranged marriage. In 2009, Hazlewood appeared as Nalini, an Ajira Airways ticket agent, in season 5 of Lost . In 2011, Hazlewood appeared as Meera in Embrace, written, directed and produced by Ghalib Shiraz Dhalla. In 2012, Hazlewood guest starred on Grey's Anatomy , episode 17, "One Step Too Far". In 2013, Hazlewood guest-starred on the White Collar season 5 episode "Digging Deeper". She appeared in the film Equals directed by Drake Doremus and produced by Ridley Scott.

She guest-starred in multiple episodes of The Good Place as Kamilah.

Rebecca has a cameo role in experimental feature Lost In London, written and directed by Woody Harrelson, which was filmed in one take and screened live in cinemas across the world.

Filmography

Film
YearTitleRoleNotes
2001 Dog Eat Dog Mina
2005 The Extra Girlfriend in Cinema
2008 Kissing Cousins Zara
2008 The Ode Young Parin
2015 Equals Zoe
2016 Chee and T Monie
2017 Lost in London Herself
2017The Rush ChairmanParty Girl
2019 Lost Transmissions Rachel
Television
YearTitleRoleNotes
1998 Liverpool 1 JanetSeason 1 (guest, #1.5)
2000 Second Sight Talia AhmedSeason 2 (guest, #2.1 & #2.2)
2001 Is Harry on the Boat? Girl with BradTV movie
2001–03 Crossroads Beena ShahSoap opera (regular)
2004 Doctors Meena BakerSoap opera; Season 5 (guest, #5.203)
2005 Bad Girls Arun ParmarSeason 7 (main, 13 episodes)
2008 ER JaspreetSeason 14 (guest, #14.11 & #14.12)
2008Las dos caras de janoTV movie
2009 Lost NaliniSeason 5 (guest, #5.6)
2010 Doctors Sia ClementsSoap opera; Season 11 (recurring, 5 episodes)
2010–11 Outsourced AshaSeason 1 (main, all 22 episodes)
2012 Grey's Anatomy Dr. Mara KeatonSeason 8 (guest, #8.17)
2013 White Collar Dr. Reva KhatriSeason 5 (guest, #5.8)
2016–20 The Good Place Kamilah Al-JamilSeason 1–4 (recurring, 6 episodes)
2020 Room 104 AgnesSeason 4 (guest, #4.12)
Short film
YearTitleRoleNotes
2006Sucking is a Fine Quality in Women and Vacuum CleanersThe Mistress
2007Meeting HelenBeth
2012EmbraceMeetaAlso co-producer
2014Teacher in a BoxMs Rossi

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