Amy Maghera (formerly Amrit Maghera) is a British model and actress, working in

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and Punjabi films. From 2015 to 2017, she appeared in the British soap opera ''

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'' as

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Career

Maghera began her career as a dancer for the likes of

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and Guns N' Roses. She was working as a background dancer on the sets of a

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film in

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when she was scouted by a modelling agency bringing in a five-year contract with Lakme, India's highest top end cosmetic company as its

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. She also featured as a backing dancer for the £1 Fish song by One Pound Fish Man in December 2012. This launched her career in modelling as she went on to do assignments with reputed brands like

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, Miss Sixty, L’Oreal,

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and Olay among others, besides participating in fashion shows with designers like Alison Kanugo and Neeta Lulla. In 2014, she appeared in ''

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''. She also did the lead vocals for the film. A Punjabi film ''

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'' with singer Amrinder Gill followed soon after. In April 2015, a British-Asian film featuring her, ''

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'', was released in the

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. She then acted alongside Sandhya Mridul,

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and

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in the 2015 film ''

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'', a film which marked the debut of Pan Nalin in mainstream Hindi cinema. In October 2015, Maghera joined the cast of the

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, ''

'' as

. She departed the serial in November 2017 after her character was

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. Her death scene was nominated for Best Show-Stopper at the 2018 ''Inside Soap'' Awards.

Personal life

On 31 March 2021, she uploaded a post on Instagram stating that she had legally changed her forename from Amrit to Amy. She stated that Amy has been a lifelong nickname for her, and that she is equally "proud of my mixed heritage - Indian and White". Her name change was not to turn her back on any culture, as she also stated in the post that she is maintaining her mother's Indian surname Maghera.

Filmography

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