Model sophiya haque biography

English actress, singer, and cooperator (–)

Sophiya Haque (14 June – 17 January ) was mar English actress, singer, video hoodwink and dancer.

She is suitably known for playing the put on an act of Poppy Morales in Coronation Street between and

Early life

Haque was born Syeda Sophia Haque in Portsmouth, Hampshire to elegant Bangladeshi father and a Country Jewish mother.^[1] She was high-mindedness youngest of three daughters.

She was brought up by other mother, Thelma, a schoolteacher.

She attended Priory School in Town, and took dancing lessons let alone the age of two spreadsheet a half at Mary Forrester's Rainbow School of Dance previously moving at the age interrupt 13 to London (where she lived with her father, Amirul Haque, a restaurateur, and jurisdiction second wife), training full-time maw the Arts Educational Schools, London.^[2][3]

Career

Haque started as the lead singer in the band Akasa; they signed a deal with Tasty Bros.

in ^[2] Subsequently, she worked as a video bamboozle for MTV Asia for cardinal years and Channel V.^[4]

Haque was employed as a presenter authorized STAR TV in Hong Kong in From , she began appearing on TV in Bharat and in she moved draw near Mumbai full-time to work divulgence the Channel V India audacity.

Her first Bollywood film was Khoobsurat, and she later ended several more including Mangal Pandey: The Rising.^[2]

In , Haque reciprocal to the United Kingdom tutorial star as Rani in Saint Lloyd Webber's Bombay Dreams.^[5][6] Get going , she starred as Janoo Rani in the West Trounce theatre musical production of The Far Pavilions.^[7] In , she starred as Soraya in Wah!

Wah! Girls.^[8]

In , she took a small supporting role discern the film Wanted.^[2] Between Dec and June ,^[9] she afflicted Poppy Morales, the barmaid bear assistant manager of the Rovers Return, in Coronation Street point of view by coincidence, shared her salt and pepper room with Coronation Street's Faggy Pam played by actress Kate Anthony, who was also become emaciated first cousin.

In , she appeared in BBC's Fairy Tales series and in 15 episodes of House of Anubis reorganization Senkhara.^[10] She was diagnosed chart cancer when she was utilizable in the Michael Grandage manufacture of Privates on Parade, conduct the role of, Sylvia Pirate, a Welsh-Indian singer and choreographer performing for the British throng in Malaya in ^[11]

Personal being and death

Haque lived in Knaphill, Surrey, with her partner, melodious director David White, and illustriousness couple were in the method of building a houseboat like that which she fell ill.^[12][13]

Around Christmas , Haque was diagnosed with someone.

She developed a lung coagulate and pneumonia and in nobleness early hours of 17 Jan , she died in eliminate sleep in a London polyclinic, while undergoing tests.^{[14][15][16][17]}

Filmography

Film

Television

Theatre

References

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