Sanam Saeed Biography

Sanam Saeed (born 30 November 1986, London) is a Pakistani British actress and model. She is best known for her roles in serial Daam, Mera Naseeb, Mata-e-Jaan Hai Tu and Zindagi Gulzar Hai. She made her Lollywood debut with 2013 Mehreen Jabbar's Dil Mera Dharkan Teri for which she won Tarang Housefull Awards for Best Supporting Actress.

Early life

Saeed was born into a Muslim family in London, England. But after some years she moved to Karachi, Pakistan with her family when she was 6 years old. She currently holds a Pakistani nationality as she is not eligible to hold a British one, according to 1983 UK immigration laws people born in UK before 1983 are given nationality rights where as people born after 1983 don't have the rights to abode UK as citizens.

Career

Modeling

Sanam started modeling when she was 16. As a teenager, she did not enjoy modeling. As she explains: "I was too young to be caught up in the industry, therefore seldom did shows. "As an adult, she grew more confident and found modeling more enjoyable". She has appeared in many commercials. She has won L'Oreal Paris Award for Best Model. In Paper Magazine, Saeed confessed that the reason she quit modelling was due to her increasingly becoming conscious about her looks for the first time in her life.

Singing

She later contributed vocals to the popular music show Coke Studio as a background singer.

Acting

She started her acting career with the ARY Digital serial, Daam opposite Aamina Sheikh and Sanam Baloch. She later appeared in the Hum TV serial Mera Naseeb, along with Syra Yousuf, Imran Aslam and Imran Abbas Naqvi where her character Shazia was acclaimed by the critics and public. Sanam continues to work in Pakistani television serials, her second serial was Mata-e-Jaan Hai Tu, opposite Junaid Khan and Sarwat Gilani on Hum TV. She then acted in Express Entertainment serial Talkhiyan based on Arundhati Roy's novel The God of Small Things, in which she played the role of Christian women. In the same year, she appeared in Hum TV's Zindagi Gulzar Hai along with Fawad Khan which proved to be her biggest role yet making her a famous actress across the country. Her acting was very much well praised in Zindagi Gulzar Hai along with her chemistry with her co-star Fawad Khan.

Since 2013, she has been starring in Hum TV serial Kadoorat opposite Angeline Malik, Momal Sheikh, Junaid Khan and Imran Aslam. She also appeared in an Eid special telefilm Kahin Chand Na Sharma Jaye opposite Goher Mumtaz on Hum TV. She will also be seen alongside Mikaal Zulfiqar and Javed Sheikh in Ek Kasak Reh Gaye which will air on Geo TV.

She made her Lollywood debut with telefilm Dil Mera Dharkan Teri with Ahsan Khan and Sarwat Gillani for which she won Tarang Housefull Awards for Best Supporting Actress for her role.

Musical theatre

Sanam has worked for Made for Stage Productions in three musicals: Chicago, Mamma Mia! an Dhaani.

Filmography

Year	Film	Role	Notes
2013	Dil Mera Dharkan Teri	Aiza	Remake of Dil Mera Dharkan Teri (1968) Tarang Housefull Award for Best Supporting Actress

Television

Year	Serial	Role	Channel
2010-2010	Daam	Fizza	ARY Digital
2011-2011	Mera Naseeb	Shazia	Hum TV
2012-2012	Mata-e-Jaan Hai Tu	Yamina	Hum TV
2012"2013	Talkhiyan	Zoya	Express Entertainment
2012"2013	Zindagi Gulzar Hai	Kashaf	Hum TV
2013	Kahin Chand Na Sharma Jaye	Sadaf/Nadeem	Telefilm on Hum TV
2013"Present	Kadoorat	Mina	Hum TV
2013"Present	Ek Kasak Reh Gaye	Sofia	Geo TV

Awards

Year	Award	Category
2009	L'Oreal Paris Award	Best Model
2013	Tarang Housefull Awards	Best Supporting Actress