User talk:Hazel Singh Keech

Early life and career
Hazel Keech was born in Essex, north-east London, England in 1987 to an English father and an Indian mother from Mauritius.[4][5] She attended Beal High School in Redbridge for her secondary education.[6]

Hazel first started performing from the age of three. During her early years, she enrolled in both stage schools and Indian dance academies where she learnt various forms of dance, both Indian classical and western contemporary, along with acting and singing.[7] Working professionally from the age of 13, she performed in school musicals as well as amateur plays and continued with the arts through High School. Hazel became involved in television, film and stage very quickly. All though she claims to be a part of the Harry Potter film series, playing an extra role as the friend of protagonist Harry Potter in the second, third and fourth installments, she has not been credited in any of the installments and no documentation exists to confirm her roles. She also danced in the popular British programme "Miss Marple" following which she was seen in a BBC documentary show "Call The Shots" where they watched her working in Hindi films.[8] She joined the team of the Bollywood musical Bombay Dreams for their London promotional tour in 2002 and sang in the choir of the west-end musical Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat the following year.[9]

At 18, while holidaying in Mumbai, she received work offers and decided to stay back and pursue a modelling and acting career in India. Hazel then appeared in various popular music videos as "Kahin Pe Nigahen" as well as many popular TV commercials, such as Vivel by ITC, & Sprite 'University of Freshology' commercial.[10] Hazel's first break in films came in 2007 in the Tamil film Billa, a remake of the classic film Don, where she performed an item number, originally played by Helen, in the song "Sei Ethavathu".[11] In 2011, she played a supporting role in the Hindi film Bodyguard produced by Atul Agnihotri and directed by Siddique opposite Salman Khan and Kareena Kapoor.

Filmography
Year 	Movie 	Role 	Language 	Notes 2007 	Billa 	Rhea 	Tamil 	Special appearance Credited as Rose Dawn 2011 	Bodyguard 	Maaya 	Hindi 	Side character