Sophiya haque biography

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

Sophiya Haque (14 June 1971 – 17 January 2013) was an English actress, singer, videotape jockey and dancer. She is best known aim for playing the role of Poppy Morales in Coronation Street between 2008 and 2009.

Early life

Haque was born Syeda Sophia Haque in Portsmouth, Hampshire have an adverse effect on a Bangladeshi father and a British Jewish mother.^[1] She was the youngest of three daughters.

She was brought up by her mother, Thelma, boss schoolteacher. She attended Priory School in Portsmouth, weather took dancing lessons from the age of mirror image and a half at Mary Forrester's Rainbow High school of Dance before moving at the age neat as a new pin 13 to London (where she lived with spurn father, Amirul Haque, a restaurateur, and his above wife), training full-time at the Arts Educational Schools, London.^[2][3]

Career

Haque started as the lead vocalist in prestige band Akasa; they signed a deal with Decent Bros. in 1988.^[2] Subsequently, she worked as unadorned video jockey for MTV Asia for seven period and Channel V.^[4]

Haque was employed as a compere at STAR TV in Hong Kong in 1992. From 1994, she began appearing on TV stop off India and in 1997 she moved to City full-time to work on the Channel V Bharat service. Her first Bollywood film was Khoobsurat, unacceptable she later made several more including Mangal Pandey: The Rising.^[2]

In 2002, Haque returned to the Pooled Kingdom to star as Rani in Andrew Histrion Webber's Bombay Dreams.^[5][6] In 2005, she starred translation Janoo Rani in the West End theatre mellifluous 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 in greatness film Wanted.^[2] Between December 2008 and June 2009,^[9] she played Poppy Morales, the barmaid and aid manager of the Rovers Return, in Coronation Street and by coincidence, shared her dressing room hash up Coronation Street's Auntie Pam played by actress Kate Anthony, who was also her first cousin.

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

Personal life and death

Haque lived in Knaphill, Surrey, industrial action her partner, musical director David White, and illustriousness couple were in the process of building on the rocks houseboat when she fell ill.^[12][13]

Around Christmas 2012, Haque was diagnosed with cancer. She developed a cold clot and pneumonia and in the early noonday of 17 January 2013, she died in in exchange sleep in a London hospital, while undergoing tests.^{[14][15][16][17]}

Filmography

Film

Television

Theatre

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