Daisy Irani is an Indian television actress, director and producer from

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Biography

She was born to Gujarati film actress

Padmarani Padmarani, also spelled as Padma Rani, was an Indian actress who performed in Gujarati plays, Gujarati films, and Hindi films. Early life Padmarani was born to a Maharashtrian family in Pune, Maharashtra on 25 January 1937. She was brought u ...

and stage director Namdar Irani in

Bombay Mumbai (, ; also known as Bombay — the official name until 1995) is the capital city of the Indian state of Maharashtra and the ''de facto'' financial centre of India. According to the United Nations, as of 2018, Mumbai is the second-m ...

, India. She is best known for appearing in the role of Daisy in the popular Singapore TV series '' Under One Roof''. She became the executive producer for MediaCorp Studio's English Entertainment Productions Division. Since 1 June 2007, she has been the head of MediaCorp TV12 Central Programming and Promotions, as well as

MediaCorp TV12 Mediacorp Pte. Ltd., doing business as Mediacorp and stylised as mediacorp, is a media conglomerate in Singapore. Owned by Temasek Holdings—the holding company of the Government of Singapore—it owns television, radio, and digital media prop ...

Creative Services Division. On 19 October 2008, Kid's Central and Arts Central were merged to form

Okto Okto is a daily children's program block on Mediacorp's Channel 5. The block airs daily during 5's morning and midafternoon time slots. It is also a weekend Mandarin children's program block on Mediacorp's Channel 8. It airs every weekend fro ...

, while Vasantham Central became a full-fledged channel as

MediaCorp Vasantham Vasantham is a Singaporean free-to-air television channel owned by Mediacorp. The network is focused towards the Singaporean Indian community in the country. It was originally launched on 1 September 1995 as Premiere 12. Tamil programming was i ...

, occupying the original Central channel and effectively making the channel defunct.Yeen Nie, Hoe
Kids and Arts Central to be relaunched as okto
, Channel News Asia 2008-08-25 She moved from

Mumbai Mumbai (, ; also known as Bombay — List of renamed Indian cities and states#Maharashtra, the official name until 1995) is the capital city of the Indian States and union territories of India, state of Maharashtra and the ''de facto'' fin ...

to Singapore in 1991 when her husband, Subin Subaiah, was posted there for work.

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* Singaporean television actresses Actresses from Mumbai Living people Indian emigrants to Singapore Indian women television producers Indian television producers Year of birth missing (living people) Irani people Women television producers {{Singapore-actor-stub