![]() This charming independent film, which was CAAMFest 2017’s Opening Night film, tells the story of Sami Malik ( Danny Pudi), an immigrant from an Indian village trying to make it as an engineer in 1970s Chicago. This month, moviegoers can see her in The Tiger Hunter, by director and writer Lena Khan. In the U.S., she’s best known for portraying Princess Isabella Maria Lucia Elizabetta of Valencia in ABC’s musical-comedy series Galavant. She played Spanish teacher Francesca “Cesca” Montoya in the BBC One drama Waterloo Road. ![]() On the weekends, they’d take her to Ontario Place to catch free concerts by legends like Smokey Robinson and the Temptations.ĭavid, who grew up mostly in Toronto, moved to London to attend drama school, then joined the original cast of the West End musical Mamma Mia!. So long as she kept her grades up at school, they’d take her to acting and singing lessons. “You’re an ethnic minority, so you’re going to have to work 10 times harder,” they told her. When she told her immigrant parents that she intended to become an actor in Hollywood one day, they said they would support her, but that she should be prepared for a difficult journey. They watched Grease and Xanadu “and I just fell absolutely in love with all things Olivia Newton John,” David says. She was just six years old and under the babysitting supervision of her older sister. ![]() Karen David still remembers the moment the acting and singing bug bit her hard. ![]() How the "Galavant" star got the role intended for Jennifer Lawrence. ![]()
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