Lisa Ray

Polish-Indian Lisa Ray, born in Toronto, has been featured in the Canadian edition of Hello magazine as one of the 50 Most Beautiful People' of the country.

She spoke Polish to her maternal grandmother and watched movies of Federico Fellini and Satyajit Ray with her cinephile dad. She was spotted by an agent in a crowd during a family vacation in India when she was 16, when she began modelling.

She was voted Star of the Future at the 2002 Toronto International Film Festival, Top Ten most Beautiful Indian Woman of the Millenium by the Times of India and won the Best Actress in a Canadian film for Water by the Vancouver Critics Circle.