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Shreela Ghosh (born 25 September 1962) is a former dancer, actress and reporter, became publicly known in the
United Kingdom
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when she was cast as
Naima Jeffery in 1985, one of the original characters in the
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soap opera
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, ''
EastEnders''. She has since given up performing to work as an arts executive. She was the first programme director for Arts and Heritage at the Esmee Fairbairn Foundation, and went on to become the Deputy Director for the Institute of International Visual Arts (
InIVA). She now is the Director of the
Free Word Centre Free Word was an international centre for literature, literacy and free expression based at 60 Farringdon Road, Clerkenwell, London. It developed local, national and international collaborations that explored the transformative power of words.
Free ...
.
Career
Ghosh began her working life as a performer, a classical (
Bharatanatyam
Bharatanatyam () is a major form of Indian classical dance that originated in Tamil Nadu. It is one of the eight widely recognized Indian classical dance forms, and expresses South Indian religious themes and spiritual ideas, particularly of ...
and
Kathak
Kathak ( hi, कथक; ur, کتھک) is one of the eight major forms of Indian classical dance. It is the classical dance from of Uttar Pradesh. The origin of Kathak is traditionally attributed to the traveling bards in ancient northern Ind ...
) Indian dancer and singer.
At the age of seventeen – after acquiring an agent and an
equity card — she worked extensively in
theatre
Theatre or theater is a collaborative form of performing art that uses live performers, usually actors or actresses, to present the experience of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place, often a stage. The perform ...
, which included work with leading organisations such as
Max Stafford-Clark
Maxwell Robert Guthrie Stewart "Max" Stafford-Clark (born 17 March 1941) is a British theatre director.
Life and career
Stafford-Clark was born in Cambridge, England. the son of David Stafford-Clark, a physician, and Dorothy Crossley (née Old ...
's
Joint Stock Theatre Company The Joint Stock Theatre Company was founded in London 1974 by David Hare, Max Stafford-Clark Paul Kember and David Aukin. The director William Gaskill was also part of the company. It was primarily a company which presented new plays.
Joint Stock ...
where she was also working as Marketing and Publicity Officer.
Television work followed with roles in ''
Play For Today'' productions ''The Garland'' in 1981,
[The Garland: Play for Today]
", ''BFI''. URL last accessed 2007-02-17. and ''Moving on the Edge'' in 1984. She also had roles in the BBC nursing drama ''
Angels
In various theistic religious traditions an angel is a supernatural spiritual being who serves God.
Abrahamic religions often depict angels as benevolent celestial intermediaries between God (or Heaven) and humanity. Other roles incl ...
'' (1982)
[Angels December 1982 cast list]
, ''BFI''. URL last accessed 2007-02-17. and played Minnie in the successful televised
ITV mini-series, ''
The Jewel in the Crown'', in 1984. Although Ghosh was not trained as an actor in a conventional sense, her coaching in voice and the dramatic techniques she had learnt from Indian dance came into play for many of her roles.
Ghosh continued her television career in 1985 when she was cast as
Naima Jeffery, one of the original characters in the
BBC #REDIRECT BBC #REDIRECT BBC
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