Leeza Mangaldas

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Leeza Mangaldas
Born
Leeza Mangaldas

(1990-05-25) 25 May 1990 (age 33)
Bangalore, India
OccupationActress, model

Leeza Mangaldas is an Indian actress,[1] model and journalist/anchor by profession.

Early life[edit]

Leeza Mangaldas was born in Bangalore, India. She is half Gujarati, half Punjabi. She spent her childhood in Goa. She attended high school in Kodaikanal and then got her BA at Columbia University in New York City. At Columbia she was a "Global Scholar" and spearheaded an interfaith lecture series called Living Peace in association with the Tibet Center. While in NYC she also took acting classes at Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute.[2]

Career[edit]

Leeza Mangaldas currently anchors a travel segment on the auto show Topspeed, on ET Now. She has written articles for Open Magazine and CNN.com. She also co-founded an ongoing educational platform called Evoke India with a focus on topics as varied as personal finance and sexual health, that are under addressed in school curricula. She acted in an independent film called W which released in 2014, addressing gendered violence in India. She currently lives in Mumbai.

[3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8]

Filmography[edit]

Year Title Role Notes
2014 W (2014 film) Sandhya Singh a.k.a Sandy
2012 The Girl Epidemic Short Film

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See also[edit]

References[edit]

  1. http://www.bollywoodhungama.com/celebritymicro/index/id/5162142. {{cite news}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  2. http://www.college.columbia.edu/cct/sep_oct08/around_the_quads7. {{cite news}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  3. http://m.openthemagazine.com/good-boys-love-their-mothers. {{cite news}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  4. http://edition.cnn.com/2012/12/30/world/asia/misogyny-india/. {{cite news}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  5. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qs_uapqfVCE. {{cite news}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  6. http://www.evokindia.in/about. {{cite news}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  7. http://m.imdb.com/title/tt3166542/. {{cite news}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  8. http://www.mid-day.com/articles/evoking-intellectual-discovery/190657. {{cite news}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  9. "IMDB". 29 Jan 2015.