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= Maria Nur =

Maria Nur Rowshon who is known as Maria Nur, She started her career in media as a Radio Jockey at ABC Radio in 2009 and entered in TV media in 2012. She gained the bulk of her popularity working as a hostess for grand sporting events such as the T20 Cricket World Cup 2014.

Early Life
Maria was born in Dhaka. Her father was a businessman. Her mother was a Businesswoman and also a trainer. She was the owner of a boutique shop and an Academy which was called Shamsi Academy. Maria completed her Secondary school certificate S.S.C. from Lalmatia Girls High School, Higher Secondary School Certificate H.S.C. from Mohammadpur Preperatory Girls School And College, Graduation and Post graduation on Accounting from City College under National University. She also acquired a diploma in Fashion Designing from Shanto-Mariam University of Creative Technology.

Modeling (Advertisement)
In 2014 Maria Nur was featured as the lead role named Yashna in one of the memorable 3 part TVC (part 1, part 2 & part 3) created by visionary director Mostofa Sarwar Farooqi for ekhanei.com. She won “Bachsas best model award” for her outstanding performance in the sequel of this TVC. She was Brand Ambassador of ekhanei.com (2014-2016) and Lip Ice Bangladesh (2014-2015). Maria is also the only woman in Bangladesh who was the Brand Ambassador of a smartphone game “Cricket Career Super League”.

Television
Maria started her career in Television with a show called Lifestyle24 for channel24 in 2012. She anchored a successful travel show called “Circle the Globe” on Channel 24. Afterwards she did another new Travel show with an entirely new concept called "Traveller's Story" on Channel 9. During 2014 ICC T20 World Cup Maria Nur hosted a cricket show named “Cricket Blast” for Gazi Television, and began her career in sports show hosting. During FIFA World Cup 2014 Maria Nur hosted one of the most popular football sports shows on TV called “Nitol Tata Ultimate World Cup”. During this period, she kept hosting various kind of shows, like Musical Live shows, Celebrity Talk Shows.

In 2015 when she got popularity being the “Yashna” girl in ekhenei.com TVC, the brand brought a cricket show “Ekhanei.com presents Cricket Extra” for ICC World Cup 2015 and placed Maria Nur in the hot seat as the host of the show by breaking the stereotype of sports show male hosting. People started a new phrase for her “Cricket means Maria”. She is the cricket girl of Bangladesh, hosted many shows for big events like BPL, Asia Cup, Champions Trophy, Bangladesh Series. She has also many other popular shows in her career like Late Night Coffee for RTV, Channel i Shera Kontho, Robi Cricket 360 on GTV, Lux Style Check directed by Tania Ahmed which went on air 14 channels at a time, Robi Dekhiye Dao on Independent Television, Starnight on Maasranga , Men’s Fair n Lovely Channel i Hero, Football Paa-Goal with Maria , Mariar Rannaghor. She has hosted prominent award shows like RTV Star award, RTV Alokito Nari, Colors Businesswomen Awards 2019, Berger awards for excellence in Architecture, Prothom Alo Sports Award.

TV Fictions
Even though Maria prefers hosting more than acting she acted in some fictions as the lead role

Radio
She started her career as Radio Jockey at ABC Radio FM 89.2 in 2009. Later she also produced some shows.