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Saeed on the sets of Diyar-e-Dil
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Native name | صنم سعید |
Born |
Sanam Saeed London, England, UK |
Nationality | Pakistani |
Occupation | Actress |
Years active | 2001–present |
Spouse(s) | Farhan Hassan (m. 2015) |
Website | Sanam Saeed on Facebook |
Sanam Saeed is a British-born Pakistani actress, singer and model who moved to Pakistan when she was six years old. She did her O-levels at Bay View High School Karachi and her A-levels at L'Ecole College. Saeed started modelling at the age of 16. In Paper Magazine, she confessed that the reason she quit modelling was due to her increasingly becoming conscious about her looks for the first time in her life.
Saeed started her acting career with a supporting role in the 2010 ARY Digital serial, Daam opposite Aamina Sheikh and Sanam Baloch. Saeed played the role of Fiza. The following year she played the lead female role in Mera Naseeb, along with Syra Yousuf, Imran Aslam and Imran Abbas.
In 2012, Saeed played Yamina, an American Pakistani who is married to Adam, a wife beater (played by Junaid Khan) in Mehreen Jabbar's Mata-e-Jaan Hai Tu an adaptation of Farhat Ishtiaq's novel of the same name. Sanam played Kashaf Murtaza in Sultana Siddiqui's romantic drama Zindagi Gulzar Hai an adaption of Umera Ahmad's novel of the same name the same year. In addition, Saeed played Bibi, a Syrian Christian single mother in Bee Gul's Talkhiyan, based on Arundhati Roy's novel The God of Small Things.