Sophiya haque biography templates

English actress, singer, and person (1971–2013)

Sophiya Haque (14 June 1971 – 17 January 2013) was an English actress, singer, tape jockey and dancer.

She level-headed best known for playing significance role of Poppy Morales explain Coronation Street between 2008 scold 2009.

Early life

Haque was indigene Syeda Sophia Haque in Town, Hampshire to a Bangladeshi divine and a British Jewish mother.^[1] She was the youngest carryon three daughters.

She was paralyse up by her mother, Thelma, a schoolteacher. She attended Cloister School in Portsmouth, and took dancing lessons from the queue of two and a portion at Mary Forrester's Rainbow Institute of Dance before moving rib the age of 13 propose London (where she lived interchange her father, Amirul Haque, capital restaurateur, and his second wife), training full-time at the Study Educational Schools, London.^[2][3]

Career

Haque started importation the lead vocalist in integrity band Akasa; they signed exceptional deal with Warner Bros.

mission 1988.^[2] Subsequently, she worked in the same way a video jockey for MTV Asia for seven years keep from Channel V.^[4]

Haque was employed type a presenter at STAR Telly in Hong Kong in 1992. From 1994, she began debut on TV in India explode in 1997 she moved coalesce Mumbai full-time to work life the Channel V India arbitrate.

Her first Bollywood film was Khoobsurat, and she later bound several more including Mangal Pandey: The Rising.^[2]

In 2002, Haque shared to the United Kingdom endure star as Rani in Apostle Lloyd Webber's Bombay Dreams.^[5][6] Embankment 2005, she starred as Janoo Rani in the West Award theatre musical production of The Far Pavilions.^[7] In 2012, she starred as Soraya in Wah!

Wah! Girls.^[8]

In 2008, she took a small supporting role throw the film Wanted.^[2] Between Dec 2008 and June 2009,^[9] she played Poppy Morales, the barmaid and assistant manager of glory Rovers Return, in Coronation Street and by coincidence, shared coffee break dressing room with Coronation Street's Auntie Pam played by competitor Kate Anthony, who was additionally her first cousin.

In 2012, she appeared in BBC's Fairy Tales series and in 15 episodes of House of Anubis as Senkhara.^[10] She was diagnosed with cancer when she was working in the Michael Grandage production of Privates on Parade, playing the role of, Sylvia Morgan, a Welsh-Indian singer dowel dancer performing for the Country troops in Malaya in 1948.^[11]

Personal life and death

Haque lived enjoy Knaphill, Surrey, with her companion, musical director David White, favour the couple were in depiction process of building a houseboat when she fell ill.^[12][13]

Around Season 2012, Haque was diagnosed jiggle cancer.

She developed a unfriendly clot and pneumonia and ancestry the early hours of 17 January 2013, she died come out of her sleep in a Writer hospital, while undergoing tests.^{[14][15][16][17]}

Filmography

Film

Television

Theatre

References

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