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Preity Zinta shot to fame as the refreshing, cool, wet model in the Liril commercial. She also modeled for Perk and her dimpled smile won the hearts of millions. Preity never thought she would be an actress. Kapoor saw her in the Liril commercial and liked her so much that he instantly decided that the next film he would announce would have her in the lead. However, 'Tara Rum Pum' never got made and is still pending since the director got very busy with his other projects.
But another offer soon came by, Kundan Shah's Kya Kehna (2000). Though the film was the first, Preity had actually begun shooting for her first release which was Mani Ratnam's Dil Se.. (1998). The film was a hit which won Preity accolades. Later Abbas-Mustan's Soldier (1998) that too was a hit at the box-office confirmed she was here to stay. Though Kya Kehna (2000) was her first film, but it released in 2000 and was the surprise hit of 2000.
Her role in Dil Chahta Hai (2001) and Dil Hai Tumhaara (2002) was appreciated and liked by all and that has made her an actress to reckon with in Bollywood. Her screen presence, charm and down to earth nature has made her the favorite actress of almost all the directors and producers. With banners and films like Rakesh Roshan's Koi... Mil Gaya (2003) with 'Hrithik Roshan', Nikkhil Advani's Kal Ho Naa Ho (2003) starring Shah Rukh Khan, Saif Ali Khan, and Jaya Bachchan, Farhan Akhtar's Lakshya (2004) with Hrithik Roshan and Amitabh Bachchan, Atul Agnihotri's Dil Ne Jise Apna Kaha (2004) starring Salman Khan and Bhoomika Chawla, Yash Chopra's Veer-Zaara (2004) with Shah Rukh Khan and Rani Mukerji, Siddharth Anand's Salaam Namaste (2005) with Saif Ali Khan, and Karan Johar's Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna (2006) with Shah Rukh Khan, Amitabh Bachchan, Abhishek Bachchan and Rani Mukerji, Preity has already made her place in the hearts of the public and also in Bollywood.- Actress
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Fair-haired, blue-eyed British actress with a long career on the London stage. She was born Ursula Jean McMinn in India, schooled in London and trained for acting at RADA. Ursula made her theatrical debut at the Criterion Theatre in 1922. From the 1930's, she specialised in classical plays by Shakespeare and Shaw, performing primarily at the Old Vic and with the Sadler's Wells Company. During World War II, she worked under the auspices of the Entertainments National Service Association (ENSA), along with her second husband, the actor Roger Livesey. They often appeared together on stage and enjoyed a particularly successful run on the West End in a play written specifically for them by J.B. Priestley: "Ever Since Paradise". In the late 1950's, the Liveseys toured Australia and New Zealand in "The Reluctant Debutante". On screen, they had previously appeared in both the stage and screen versions of The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943).
Ursula's relatively few film roles generally saw her as genteel, devoted wives, like her Mrs. Molly Wallis in The Dam Busters (1955). She was rather more effective, however, as the officer's wife Lady Windham in North West Frontier (1959), or as the middle-class widow Martha Dacre, coming to terms with the aftermath of the war in The Weaker Sex (1948).- Jamila Massey was born on 7 January 1934 in Simla, Punjab, British India. She is an actress, known for Mind Your Language (1977), EastEnders (1985) and The Jewel in the Crown (1984).
- Actress
- Writer
Frances Bennett was born on 22 December 1930 in Simla, West Bengal, India. She was an actress and writer, known for Compact (1962), It Ain't Half Hot Mum (1974) and ITV Playhouse (1967). She was married to John McMichael. She died on 5 March 2014 in Denville Hall, Northwood, London, England, UK.- Tall, serious-looking British character actor, formerly a graduate of Edinburgh Academy and Sandhurst. He was a member of the Black Watch, but resigned his commission in 1932 to join the chorus of the Drury Lane Theatre as a specialty dancer. He later turned to films, usually acting in small supporting roles in which he invariably projected an air of confidence and authority. He rejoined the British Army in 1939 for wartime service. His one noteworthy screen success after 1945 was as the titular star of Patrol Car (1954), playing real-life detective Robert Fabian. In 1963, upon the death of his brother, Sir Alexander Hay Seton, he became the eleventh Baronet of Abercorn. Along with other actors, Bruce Seton was one of the founder members of the Lord's Taverners in 1950, Britain's premier youth cricket and disability sports charity association.
- Thomas Heathcote was born on 9 September 1917 in Simla, India. He was an actor, known for A Night to Remember (1958), A Man for All Seasons (1966) and Billy Budd (1962). He died on 5 January 1986 in London, England, UK.
- Actress
Anna Nicholas was born on 14 September 1947 in Simla, India. She was an actress, known for Cuba (1979), Tales of the Unexpected (1979) and Armchair Thriller (1978). She was married to Graham Smith. She died on 3 February 2014 in Kent and Canterbury Hospital, Canterbury, Kent, England, UK.- The Honorable Elsie Mackay was born August 21, 1893 in Simla-Calcutta, West Bengal, India, to James Lyle Mackay, 1st Earl of Inchcape of Strathnaver, a British colonial administrator in India who became chairman of the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company and Jean Paterson Shanks. Her brother, Kenneth Mackay was the 2nd Lord Inchcape. Her sister Effie Mackay, married Sir Eugen Millington-Drake, who was the British Minister to Uraguay during the 1939 Battle of the River Plate (view the 1956 film). Elsie was reportedly disinherited by her family after eloping with actor Dennis Wyndham to be married on 23 May 1917. She appeared as silent film actress Poppy Wyndham from 1919 through 1920. In a historical photo from Grand Central Palace Bldg in New York, it states that as Poppy Wyndham she was the first woman jockey in England, and in her short career on the turf she piloted no less than a dozen winners under the barriers. In the few events from which her sex did not bar her, her colors - yellow and blue - were always present, and always were heavily backed. After the marriage to Wyndham was annulled in 1922 she returned to her family and developed a career as an interior decorator, creating lavish interiors, state rooms and public spaces for her father's shipping line, the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company (P&O). In 1923 she launched the RMS Maloja, and went on to design much of the interiors for the four P&O "R" class ships of 1925: SS Rawalpindi, SS Ranchi, SS Ranpura and SS Rajputana, plus the RMS Viceroy of India in 1927. In early March 1928 the Daily Express discovered that Captain Hinchliffe and Mackay were preparing for a transatlantic attempt by carrying out test flights at RAF Cranwell and were staying at the George Hotel in Leadenham near Grantham. The story was silenced by Mackay's threatened legal action as she intended to depart in secret while her father was in Egypt, having promised her family she would not make the attempt. At 8:35 am on 13 March 1928 Endeavour took off from RAF Cranwell, Lincolnshire, with minimal fuss as Hinchliffe had told only two friends he was going and Elsie registered under the pseudonym of 'Gordon Sinclair'. Approximately five hours later, at 1.30 pm the chief lighthouse keeper at Mizen Head on the south west coast of Cork, Ireland saw the monoplane over the village of Crookhaven. A French steamer later reported seeing them still on course, but nothing else is known. A crowd of 5,000 is reputed to have waited for them at Mitchel Field, Long Island. In December 1928, eight months later, a single piece of identifiable undercarriage (a wheel with a serial number on it) washed ashore in north west Ireland. Her body was never recovered and there is a memorial stained glass window, as well as an inscription underneath the bell at Glenapp Church on the family estate marking her death as 13th March 1928.
- Was a Royal Air Force (RAF) Wing Commander in World War II. He formed the elite 617 Squadron (The Dam Busters) and led the squadron on its most famous mission, the attack on the Moehne and Eder Dams.
Won the Victoria Cross for his performance on the dams raid. He also earned two Distinguished Service Orders and two Distinguished Flying Crosses. - Writer
- Art Department
M.M. Kaye was born on 21 August 1908 in Simla, India. She was a writer, known for The Far Pavilions, The Far Pavilions (1984) and Jackanory (1965). She was married to Godfrey John Hamilton, DSO. She died on 29 January 2004 in Lavenham, Suffolk, England, UK.- Derek Holmes was born on 3 September 1925 in Simla, India. He was an actor, known for On Stage - London (1957), BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (1950) and The Passionate Pilgrim (1949). He was married to Judy Dyson. He died on 22 February 2002 in Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA.
- Desmond Jeans was born on 14 November 1903 in Simla, India. He was an actor, known for The Girl from Maxim's (1933), Blackout (1940) and His Majesty and Co (1935). He was married to Peggy Livesey. He died in December 1974 in Halifax, West Yorkshire, England, UK.
- Sound Department
Eric Chohan was born in 1934 in Simla, Himachal Pradesh, India. Eric is known for The Lion of the Desert (1980), That Summer! (1979) and The Wicked Lady (1983). Eric was married to April Davis. Eric died in 2000 in Ealing, London, England, UK.- Production Designer
- Costume Designer
Peter Rice was born on 13 September 1928 in Simla, Punjab, British India. He was a production designer and costume designer, known for Three Men in a Boat (1956), Theatre Night (1957) and ITV Play of the Week (1955). He was married to Patricia Albeck. He died on 24 December 2015 in Bampton, Oxfordshire, England, UK.- Idries Shah was born on 16 June 1924 in Simla, India. He was a writer, known for The Trunk (2022), The Dermis Probe (1965) and One Pair of Eyes (1967). He died on 23 November 1996 in London, England, UK.
- Peter Stuart-Smith was born in 1932 in Simla, West Bengal, India. He is an actor, known for The Boy David (1957), Dr. Finlay's Casebook (1962) and The Long Way Home (1960).
- Victor Bulwer-Lytton was born on 9 August 1876 in Simla, British India. He was married to Pamela Chichele-Plowden. He died on 25 October 1947.
- Robin Jackman was born on 13 August 1945 in Simla, Punjab, British India. He died on 25 December 2020 in Cape Town, South Africa.