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Mehreen Raheel Born Mehreen Raheel
February 8, 1981
Lahore, Punjab, PakistanOccupation Model, Actress Height 5 ft 1 in (1.55 m) Hair color Black Eye color Brown Spouse Atif Azhar Malik Mehreen Raheel (Urdu: مہرین راحیل) is one of Pakistan's leading models, with dozens of product commercials, cover pages of magazines like Libaas, and many photo shoots of clothes and jewelry to her credit. She is a familiar face to Head & Shoulders and Pantene users, as well as to Lipton tea drinkers, Telenor and even Ufone phone users. She is also an actress who has appeared in television series and a TV Host.
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Biography
She is the daughter of Simi Raheel [1] who is a talented, renowned TV artist and a social activist who works for a leading NGO and is a gender trainer. Her family is from Lahore but she has traveled a lot due to her father being in Army. She admits that she was brought mainly by her mother because her father was in Rahimiyar Khan was setting up a sugar mill in Quetta. She has a younger brother name Danyal Raheel, who is studying Bachelors in Theater, Film & Television from Beaconhouse National University Lahore and is in process of becoming an actor.
Education and Child artist
Mehreen has changed many schools starting from the Lahore School of Arts & Sciences, Lahore Grammar etc. Since she was a child, she has had an eye for fashion and her heart set on a media career. Her first commercial project was when she was around 8. She did a couple of more commercials when she was around 13 or 14. She also did a play called Ajnabee Rastay where she was portrayed as a minor character. She later went to London and achieved a diploma in dancing, drama, and script writing. [2] When she came back from London, she entered in the media business.
Career
She joined Nabeela’s advertising and got her first project in ICI. She has done few ramps because she is not very enthusiastic about that particular type of modeling. She has mostly done ads and photography for clothes and jewelry. Some products she advertised are for Head and Shoulders, Pantene, lipton, Telenor, UFone, PTCL, Sooper Biscuits etc.
She has done ramp modeling, but prefers shoots.
Raheel has appeared in several dramas, but her successful dramas to date are Meri Zaat Zarra e benishan and Dastaan. Raheel is working on several acting projects.She was also nominated for the best actress at the Lux Style Awards for her play kabhi aye na judaai.
Humanitarian work
She travalled to India as an Ambassador for the Standard Chartered fundraising marathon for the Tsunami. She has worked in Thailand with young children and in raising money to fund education. She takes part in humanitarian activities in Pakistan.
Personal life
She has been married.
Credits
Drama Serials
- Ajnabee Rastay
- Gardish
- 3 Bata 3
- Kothi No. 156
- Meri Zaat Zarra e benishan
- Mujhe Hai Hukume Azan
- Dastaan (drama) (Hum TV)
- Kabhi aye naa judai
- Mastana Mahi
Movies
Film Role Notes Freedom Sound (film) (2010) Angelina Delayed Virsa (2010) Mahi Released in India and Pakistan. Successful in both countries. References
- http://www.mag4you.com/spotlight/Mehreen+Raheel/4518.htm
- http://en.wordpress.com/tag/mehreen-raheel/
- http://www.thesaturdaypost.com/rendezvous_47_mehreenraheal.html
- http://www.mag4you.com/spotlight/spotlight.asp?title=Simi+Raheal&content_id=6562&bhcp=1
- http://www.sadaewatansydney.com/virsa.htm
- http://dic.academic.ru/dic.nsf/enwiki/7699365
External links
Categories:- 1980 births
- Living people
- Pakistani female models
- Pakistani film actors
- Pakistani Muslims
- Pakistani Sunni Muslims
- Pakistani television actors
- People from Lahore
- Punjabi people
- Lahore Grammar School alumni
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