Anahita Uberoi (born 1967) is an Indian actress working actively in theater circuit. Besides Uberoi also acted in some

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Early life

Uberoi hails from a family of thespians to

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and Farrokh Mehta. Uberoi started to work in her mother's troupe at age of 12. Uberoi did her schooling from

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. Subsequently, she trained

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, New York and acted on Broadway, before returning to India.

Career

Anahita Uberoi worked in many

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plays like ''Rupert's Birthday'', ''Going Solo'', ''Glass Menagerie'', ''Seascape with Sharks and Dancers'' and ''If Wishes Were Horses''. Uberoi also worked as assistant director to

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and

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and worked with numerous American actors and actresses includes

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, Robert Sean, Leonard, Judd Hirsch and Mary Steenburgen.Anahita Uberoi at Rage Theaters
. Rage Theaters. Retrieved 23 October 2014. She has also appeared in 2003 hit film Jism, as Priyanka Kapoor.

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* Living people Hindi theatre Indian film actresses Indian stage actresses Indian theatre directors Indian women dramatists and playwrights 1967 births Writers from Mumbai St. Xavier's College, Mumbai alumni 20th-century Indian dramatists and playwrights Women writers from Maharashtra 20th-century Indian women writers Indian women theatre directors Dramatists and playwrights from Maharashtra {{ India-film-bio-stub