Lisa RayBorn:
April 4, 1972
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Ray was born to an Bengali Indian father and a Polish mother and spent childhood in the suburb of Etobicoke, Toronto. 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.
She spoke Polish to her maternal grandmother and watched movies with Federico Fellini and Satyajit Ray with her cinephile dad. Ray was spotted by an agent in a crowd during a family vacation in India when she was 16, when she began modelling.
Lisa Ray is living with her longtime partner, fashion photographer, Paolo Zambaldi. She was diagnosed with Multiple Myeloma on 23 June 2009, a cancer of the white blood cells known as plasma cells, which produce antibodies. It is a rare and incurable disease.
Ray will be featured in UniGlobe Entertainment's breast cancer docu-drama titled 1 a Minute scheduled for release in 2010.
The documentary is being made by Namrata Singh Gujral and will also feature cancer survivors Olivia Newton-John, Diahann Carroll, Melissa Etheridge, Mumtaz (actress) and Jaclyn Smith as well as William Baldwin, Daniel Baldwin and Priya Dutt, whose lives have been touched by cancer.
The feature is narrated by Kelly McGillis. The film will also feature Morgan Brittany
Lisa Ray
Movies Of Lisa Ray:
1994 - Hanste Khelte
2001 - Kasoor
2002 - Bollywood/Hollywood
2002 - "Takkari Donga
2005 - Water
2005 - Seeking Fear
2006 - Quarter Life Crisis
2007 - I Can't Think Straight
2007 - The World Unseen
2008 - Kill Kill Faster Faster
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