peoplepill id: sophiya-haque
SH
United Kingdom Great Britain England
1 views today
1 views this week
Sophiya Haque
English actress, singer, video jockey and dancer

Sophiya Haque

The basics

Quick Facts

Intro
English actress, singer, video jockey and dancer
Gender
Female
Place of birth
Portsmouth
Place of death
London
Age
41 years
The details (from wikipedia)

Biography

Sophiya Haque (14 June 1971 – 17 January 2013) was an English actress, singer, video jockey and dancer. She is best known 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 to a Bangladeshi father and British mother. She was the youngest of three daughters.

She was brought up by her mother, Thelma, a divorced schoolteacher. She attended the Priory School, Orpington, and took dancing lessons from the age of two and a half at Mary Forrester's Rainbow School of Dance before moving at the age of 13 to London (where she lived with her father, Amirul Haque, a restaurateur, and his second wife), training full-time at the Arts Educational Schools, London.

Career

Haque started as the lead vocalist in the band Akasa; they signed a deal with Warner Bros. in 1988. Subsequently she worked as a video jockey for MTV Asia for seven years and Channel V.

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

In 2002, Haque returned to the United Kingdom to star as Rani in Andrew Lloyd Webber's Bombay Dreams. In 2005, she starred as Kabir Bedi in the West End theatre musical production of The Far Pavilions. In 2012, she starred as Soraya in Wah! Wah! Girls.

In 2008, she took a small supporting role in the film Wanted. Between December 2008 and June 2009, she played Poppy Morales, the barmaid and assistant manager of the Rovers Return, in Coronation Street and by coincidence, shared her dressing room with 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 series and in 15 episodes of House of Anubis as Senkhara. 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 and dancer performing for the British troops in Malaya in 1948.

Personal life and death

Haque lived in Knaphill, Surrey, with her partner, musical director David White, and the couple were in the process of building a houseboat when she fell ill.

Around Christmas 2012, Haque was diagnosed with cancer. She developed a lung clot and pneumonia and in the early hours of 17 January 2013, she died in her sleep in a London hospital, while undergoing tests.

Filmography

Film

YearTitleRoleNotes
1999KhoobsuratSpecial appearance (as Sophia Haque)
2000Snip!Tara
AlaipayutheyTamil film, special appearance
Har Dil Jo Pyar KaregaDancer in song 'Aisa Pehli Baar Hua Hai'
2001Indian(as Sofia Haque)
2002Haan Maine Bhi Pyaar KiyaDancer in Red Saaree opposite Akshay Kumar in song "zindagi ko bina pyaar koi kaise guzare"
SantoshamTelugu film, 'Mehbooba' Song
2003Pehli Nazar Ka Pehla Pyaar: Love at First SightDancer
Sandhya
2003UdhayaTamil film, special appearance
2005The Rising: Ballad of Mangal PandeySinger/dancer in song 'Rasiya' (uncredited)
2008WantedPuja
Hari Puttar: A Comedy of TerrorsAnna Singh(as Sophia Haque)

Television

YearTitleRoleNotes
2008Fur TVMrs Slaughter1 episode: Rent Boys/Hot Pussy
Fairy TalesAmeera1 episode: The Empress's New Clothes
2008–2009Coronation StreetPoppy Morales60 episodes
2012House of AnubisSenkhara44 episodes

Theatre

YearTitleRoleTheatre
2002Bombay DreamsRaniApollo Victoria and Shaftesbury Theatre
2005The Far PavilionsKabir Bedi
2012Wah! Wah! GirlsSorayaTheatre Royal Stratford East/Peacock Theatre
Privates on ParadeSylvia MorganNoel Coward Theatre London's West End

The contents of this page are sourced from Wikipedia article. The contents are available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license.
Lists
Sophiya Haque is in following lists
comments so far.
Comments
From our partners
Sponsored
Sophiya Haque
arrow-left arrow-right instagram whatsapp myspace quora soundcloud spotify tumblr vk website youtube pandora tunein iheart itunes