Rita Wolf
Birthday: Born in 1960-02-25 in Kolkata, West Bengal, India
Deathday: Alive
Rita Wolf is a British-Indian actress and theatre producer, best known for her role as Tania in My Beautiful Laundrette.
TV Credits
Tandoori Nights
Character:
Tandoori Nights was a television sitcom broadcast on Channel 4 between 1985 and 1987. It consisted of two series of six episodes each. The series was directed by Jon Amiel and written by Farrukh Dhondy. It is the story of two rival restaurants in London, and starred Saeed Jaffery, Tariq Yunus, Rita Wolf and Zohra Sehgal. It was Channel 4's first Asian comedy series....
Wing and a Prayer
Character: Jasmin Jamal
An inside, behind-the-scenes look at the practice of law, and the lawyers whose lives are caught up in their work with each other....
The Good Wife
Character: Dr. Bassir
Alicia Florrick boldly assumes full responsibility for her family and re-enters the workforce after her husband's very public sex and political corruption scandal lands him in jail....
Law & Order
Character: Connie Lembeck
In cases ripped from the headlines, police investigate serious and often deadly crimes, weighing the evidence and questioning the suspects until someone is taken into custody. The district attorney's office then builds a case to convict the perpetrator by proving the person guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. Working together, these expert teams navigate all sides of the complex criminal justice system to make New York a safer place....
Movie Credits
My Beautiful Laundrette
Character: Tania N. Ali
A Pakistani Briton renovates a rundown laundrette with his male lover while dealing with drama within his family, the local Pakistani community, and a persistent mob of skinheads....
A View from a Window
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Saleem, an elderly psychiatric patient, is partially paralysed and unable or unwilling to speak. When Kamala, a new student nurse, arrives, he begins to respond, encouraged by her gentle reassurance, and their common cultural identity....
Wrestling with Angels: Playwright Tony Kushner
Character: Self
Filmmaker Freida Lee Mock explores the life and work of playwright Tony Kushner. Starting in 2001, when Kushner was mounting the production of his play Homebody/Kabul and running through 2004, as he worked on John Kerry's presidential campaign, got married to Mark Harris, worked with Maurice Sendak, and opened the Broadway musical Caroline, or Change....
The Chain
Character: Carrie
Comedy featuring interweaving stories of seven households caught up in a property chain on moving day, each one dependent on the other....
Girl 6
Character: Wife of Indian Shopkeeper
A struggling actress in New York City takes a job as a phone sex operator....
Slipstream
Character: Maya
In the near future, where Earth has been devastated by man's pollution and giant winds rule the planet, bounty hunter Matt kidnaps a murderer out of the hands of two police officers, planning to get the bounty himself....
Majdhar
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Cultural identity, women’s independence and the pressure to conform to British norms are the subjects of this bold and acute feature, which explores both British-Asian experience and the plight of recent immigrants. Rita Wolf (My Beautiful Laundrette), plays Majdhar, a Pakistani woman who transforms herself in London after her husband leaves her for another woman. While Majdhar feels her way towards confident self-determination, husband Afzal is torn between his heritage and his Western aspirati...