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- Height5′ 0¾″ (1.54 m)
- Preeya Kalidas is an Actor and Singer.
Preeya originated the leading role of Priya in AR Rahman's/Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical Bombay Dreams in London's West End. She has played leading roles in a number of musicals in London's West End including The Narrator in the revival of Joseph and his Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat at The Adelphi Theatre, The Original London production of School of Rock, Everybody's Talking about Jamie, originated the role of Pinky in Bend it like Beckham the Musical of which she was nominated for a prestigious Olivier Award.
Also leading roles in plays, Margo in Jeremy Sam's ,The Good Life based on the iconic TV series, Chiaroscuro at Bush Theatre, Levi Addai 's Oxford Street, Gurpreet Kaur Bhatti's Khandan at London's prestigious Birmingham Rep/Royal Court Theatre and most recently opposite Juliette Stevenson in Robert Icke's The Doctor at Duke of York Theatre London & New York.
Preeya has starred in Award winning feature films including Four Lions alongside Riz Ahmed , International hit film Bend it like Beckham , Milady in The Three Musketeers and short films C4 Jump Boy, Tanika Gupta's The Fiancee, Sari and Trainers , Paso Doble alongside Aiden Turner and most recently One Punch written and directed by Emmy nominated director Huse Monfaradi.
Television credits include BBC's Eastenders as a series regular, Carmen in BAFTA nominated BBC Three Bollywood Carmen, Peter Kosminsky's BAFTA award winning C4 drama Britz , series regular in BBC's Mistresses and Jed Mercurio's BBC Series - Bodies. Preeya has also starred in single BBC drama Banglatown Banquet alongside Shabana Azmi and England Expects with Steven Mackintosh, BBC Pilot Hounslow Diaries and BBC Bedtime, BBC New Blood , And ITV Mr Eleven- IMDb Mini Biography By: Preeya Kalidas
- Gender / Gender identityFemale
- Preeya Kalidas was born to Indian Gujarati parents in Isleworth and was raised in Twickenham, South-West London.
- Has been good friends with Charlie Brooks since they were children, attending the same theatre group.
- Her final appearance on EastEnders (1985), where her character Amira Masood departs Walford upon discovering that her husband Syed has been having a gay affair with Christian Clarke, was seen by 9.33 million viewers.
- Best friends with Kelly Brook.
- Attended The Sylvia Young Theatre School in Islington, London.
- Her EastEnders (1985) character Amira Shah's wedding to Syed Masood (Marc Elliott), dated on 1 January 2010, is ranked #5 in "The 50 Greatest EastEnders (1985) Weddings of All Time" (2010).
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