Linda Arsenio
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Linda Arsenio is an American
actress and model from Texas
. She has predominantly appeared in Indian films in various languages. She is probably best known for her performance as Jessica Beckham in the 2006 Hindi film Kabul Express
.
, Texas
, USA
, the daughter of a Salvadoran
mother and a Yugoslavian
father. She has two sisters and one brother, who reside in Texas.
She studied at the Actors’ Conservatory in Dallas for 2 years, graduating with a Degree in Acting from there and continued her studies in acting in New York
. Having already experience with theatre
and musicals, she went on to do professional theatre in Texas and later in New York, which then led her to working in feature films.
, called The Process of Creative Deception, before stepping into the Indian film industry. She has acted in Tamil
and Telugu
movies. The Tamil movies are Sachein
and Thotti Jaya
in which she has item number
s, and she also plays a cameo in Kana Kandaen
. The Telugu movie she has acted in is Bhadra
, she has a forthcoming movie called Twinkle Twinkle Little Star
.
Her first Bollywood movie is Kabul Express
. This movie was entirely shot in Afghanistan
. She currently resides in Mumbai
where she continues to be active in Bollywood after the success of Kabul Express. She also appeared in the Bollywood movies Mumbai Salsa
, and Aloo Chaat
with Aftab Shivdasani
.
In early 2007, she had acted in two cross-cultural
Tamil telefilms, titled My Dear Father (En Iniya Thanthai) and Self Defence (Aththu Meera Aasai), both directed by 'Atlanta' Ganesh.
Her latest work is the Malayalam Pazhassi Raja
alongside Mammootty
and Sarath Kumar
, playing sub-collector Thomas Baber's name-changed wife Dora Baber.
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
actress and model from Texas
Texas
Texas is the second largest U.S. state by both area and population, and the largest state by area in the contiguous United States.The name, based on the Caddo word "Tejas" meaning "friends" or "allies", was applied by the Spanish to the Caddo themselves and to the region of their settlement in...
. She has predominantly appeared in Indian films in various languages. She is probably best known for her performance as Jessica Beckham in the 2006 Hindi film Kabul Express
Kabul Express
Kabul Express is a Bollywood film that was released on 15 December 2006. The film stars John Abraham, Arshad Warsi, Pakistani actor Salman Shahid, Afghan actor Hanif Hum Ghum and American actress Linda Arsenio...
.
Early life
Arsenio was born on Galveston IslandGalveston Island
Galveston Island is a barrier island on the Texas Gulf coast in the United States, about 50 miles southeast of Houston. The entire island, with the exception of Jamaica Beach, is within the city limits of the City of Galveston....
, Texas
Texas
Texas is the second largest U.S. state by both area and population, and the largest state by area in the contiguous United States.The name, based on the Caddo word "Tejas" meaning "friends" or "allies", was applied by the Spanish to the Caddo themselves and to the region of their settlement in...
, USA
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
, the daughter of a Salvadoran
El Salvador
El Salvador or simply Salvador is the smallest and the most densely populated country in Central America. The country's capital city and largest city is San Salvador; Santa Ana and San Miguel are also important cultural and commercial centers in the country and in all of Central America...
mother and a Yugoslavian
Yugoslavs
Yugoslavs is a national designation used by a minority of South Slavs across the countries of the former Yugoslavia and in the diaspora...
father. She has two sisters and one brother, who reside in Texas.
She studied at the Actors’ Conservatory in Dallas for 2 years, graduating with a Degree in Acting from there and continued her studies in acting in New York
New York
New York is a state in the Northeastern region of the United States. It is the nation's third most populous state. New York is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and by Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont to the east...
. Having already experience with theatre
Theatre
Theatre is a collaborative form of fine art that uses live performers to present the experience of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place. The performers may communicate this experience to the audience through combinations of gesture, speech, song, music or dance...
and musicals, she went on to do professional theatre in Texas and later in New York, which then led her to working in feature films.
Career
She made her acting debut in an English independent filmIndependent film
An independent film, or indie film, is a professional film production resulting in a feature film that is produced mostly or completely outside of the major film studio system. In addition to being produced and distributed by independent entertainment companies, independent films are also produced...
, called The Process of Creative Deception, before stepping into the Indian film industry. She has acted in Tamil
Tamil language
Tamil is a Dravidian language spoken predominantly by Tamil people of the Indian subcontinent. It has official status in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu and in the Indian union territory of Pondicherry. Tamil is also an official language of Sri Lanka and Singapore...
and Telugu
Telugu language
Telugu is a Central Dravidian language primarily spoken in the state of Andhra Pradesh, India, where it is an official language. It is also spoken in the neighbouring states of Chattisgarh, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Orissa and Tamil Nadu...
movies. The Tamil movies are Sachein
Sachein
Sachein is a 2005 Tamil romance film directed by John Mahendran, starring Vijay and Genelia D'Souza. It also features Bollywood actress Bipasha Basu, in her Tamil cinema debut, Vadivelu and Raghuvaran. The film's score and soundtrack are composed by Devi Sri Prasad. The film released along with...
and Thotti Jaya
Thotti Jaya
Thotti Jaya is an Indian film released in 2005. It was written and directed by Durai. The soundtrack was composed by Harris Jayaraj.-Plot:Jayachandran Mukut Pal is a born rowdy working in a hotel as a helper. He gets his title name "Thotti Jaya" as he is born in a garbage bin. People who confront...
in which she has item number
Item number
An item number or an item song, in Indian cinema, is a musical performance that has little to do with the film in which it appears, but is presented to showcase beautiful dancing women in very revealing clothes, to lend support to the marketability of the film...
s, and she also plays a cameo in Kana Kandaen
Kana Kandaen
Kana Kandaen is a 2005 Tamil film directed by K. V. Anand, and starring Srikanth, Gopika, and Prithviraj.-Plot:Friends since their childhood days, the couple begins to live in a small house owned by Vivek in Chennai...
. The Telugu movie she has acted in is Bhadra
Bhadra
In Hinduism, Bhadra is a goddess of the hunt and one of Shiva's servants....
, she has a forthcoming movie called Twinkle Twinkle Little Star
Twinkle Twinkle Little Star (film)
Twinkle Twinkle Little Star is an upcoming Malayalam film written and directed by Vayalar Madhavan. The lead pair in the film are Tinnu Anand and Divya Dutta. This is a fantasy film targeted at children...
.
Her first Bollywood movie is Kabul Express
Kabul Express
Kabul Express is a Bollywood film that was released on 15 December 2006. The film stars John Abraham, Arshad Warsi, Pakistani actor Salman Shahid, Afghan actor Hanif Hum Ghum and American actress Linda Arsenio...
. This movie was entirely shot in Afghanistan
Afghanistan
Afghanistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, is a landlocked country located in the centre of Asia, forming South Asia, Central Asia and the Middle East. With a population of about 29 million, it has an area of , making it the 42nd most populous and 41st largest nation in the world...
. She currently resides in Mumbai
Mumbai
Mumbai , formerly known as Bombay in English, is the capital of the Indian state of Maharashtra. It is the most populous city in India, and the fourth most populous city in the world, with a total metropolitan area population of approximately 20.5 million...
where she continues to be active in Bollywood after the success of Kabul Express. She also appeared in the Bollywood movies Mumbai Salsa
Mumbai Salsa (film)
Mumbai Salsa is an 2007 Bollywood film directed by Manoj Tyagi.-Plot:This movie is about four pairs who meet accidentally in a Mumbai bar called Mumbai Salsa and get hooked on each other for life.It captures the urban qualities of life and love....
, and Aloo Chaat
Aloo Chaat
-Reception:The film met with mixed to negative reviews. Reviewer Taran Adarsh said that Aloo chaat doesn't hold your attention because of its poor screenplay and gave the film 1.5\5. Raja Sen also gave the movie 2\5...
with Aftab Shivdasani
Aftab Shivdasani
Aftab Shivadasani is an Indian actor who appears in Bollywood films. He started as a child actor in commercials and has performed in over 40 films. He also co-wrote and helped produce the film Aao Wish Karein. He started his career as a child artist in the movie Mr. India. Shivdasani is currently...
.
In early 2007, she had acted in two cross-cultural
Cross-cultural
cross-cultural may refer to*cross-cultural studies, a comparative tendency in various fields of cultural analysis*cross-cultural communication, a field of study that looks at how people from differing cultural backgrounds communicate...
Tamil telefilms, titled My Dear Father (En Iniya Thanthai) and Self Defence (Aththu Meera Aasai), both directed by 'Atlanta' Ganesh.
Her latest work is the Malayalam Pazhassi Raja
Pazhassi Raja (film)
Pazhassi Raja is a 2009 Malayalam historical drama movie mostly based on the life of Kerala Varma Pazhassi Raja, a local king from the royal dynasty of Pazhassi Kottayam, Malabar, India. The film was directed by Hariharan, written by M. T. Vasudevan Nair and produced by Gokulam Gopalan...
alongside Mammootty
Mammootty
Mammootty is an Indian film actor and producer who works mainly in Malayalam cinema. He has also acted in a few Tamil, Hindi, Telugu, and Kannada films. During a career spanning more than three decades, he has acted in more than 360 films, and is only next to Prem Nazir in the number of lead roles...
and Sarath Kumar
Sarath Kumar
Sarathkumar Ramanathan is an Indian journalist, film actor, politician, body builder and the current president of the South Indian Film Artistes' Association. He started his career in Tamil cinema playing negative roles, and later played minor roles in other movies. He was first chosen for the...
, playing sub-collector Thomas Baber's name-changed wife Dora Baber.
Filmography
| Year | Film | Role | Language | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 | The Process of Creative Deception | Randy Kyle | English English language English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria... |
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| 2005 | Sachein Sachein Sachein is a 2005 Tamil romance film directed by John Mahendran, starring Vijay and Genelia D'Souza. It also features Bollywood actress Bipasha Basu, in her Tamil cinema debut, Vadivelu and Raghuvaran. The film's score and soundtrack are composed by Devi Sri Prasad. The film released along with... |
Tamil Tamil language Tamil is a Dravidian language spoken predominantly by Tamil people of the Indian subcontinent. It has official status in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu and in the Indian union territory of Pondicherry. Tamil is also an official language of Sri Lanka and Singapore... |
Special appearance | |
| Bhadra Bhadra (film) Bhadra is a Telugu film released on 12 May 2005 and was directed by debutant director Boyapati Srinu. Ravi Teja and Meera Jasmine played the lead roles. The film was later remade into Tamil as Saravana with Silambarasan and Jyothika... |
Telugu Telugu language Telugu is a Central Dravidian language primarily spoken in the state of Andhra Pradesh, India, where it is an official language. It is also spoken in the neighbouring states of Chattisgarh, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Orissa and Tamil Nadu... |
Special appearance | ||
| Kana Kandaen Kana Kandaen Kana Kandaen is a 2005 Tamil film directed by K. V. Anand, and starring Srikanth, Gopika, and Prithviraj.-Plot:Friends since their childhood days, the couple begins to live in a small house owned by Vivek in Chennai... |
Tamil | Guest appearance | ||
| Thotti Jaya Thotti Jaya Thotti Jaya is an Indian film released in 2005. It was written and directed by Durai. The soundtrack was composed by Harris Jayaraj.-Plot:Jayachandran Mukut Pal is a born rowdy working in a hotel as a helper. He gets his title name "Thotti Jaya" as he is born in a garbage bin. People who confront... |
Tamil | Special appearance | ||
| 2006 | Kabul Express Kabul Express Kabul Express is a Bollywood film that was released on 15 December 2006. The film stars John Abraham, Arshad Warsi, Pakistani actor Salman Shahid, Afghan actor Hanif Hum Ghum and American actress Linda Arsenio... |
Jessica Beckham | Hindi | |
| 2007 | My Dear Father | Tamil | Telefilm Original title:En Iniya Thanthai |
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| Self Defence | Tamil | Telefilm Original title: Aththu Meera Aasai |
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| Mumbai Salsa Mumbai Salsa (film) Mumbai Salsa is an 2007 Bollywood film directed by Manoj Tyagi.-Plot:This movie is about four pairs who meet accidentally in a Mumbai bar called Mumbai Salsa and get hooked on each other for life.It captures the urban qualities of life and love.... |
Pamela Nicole Adamsmith | Hindi | ||
| 2009 | Aloo Chaat Aloo Chaat -Reception:The film met with mixed to negative reviews. Reviewer Taran Adarsh said that Aloo chaat doesn't hold your attention because of its poor screenplay and gave the film 1.5\5. Raja Sen also gave the movie 2\5... |
Nikki | Hindi | |
| Pazhassi Raja Pazhassi Raja (film) Pazhassi Raja is a 2009 Malayalam historical drama movie mostly based on the life of Kerala Varma Pazhassi Raja, a local king from the royal dynasty of Pazhassi Kottayam, Malabar, India. The film was directed by Hariharan, written by M. T. Vasudevan Nair and produced by Gokulam Gopalan... |
Dora Baber | Malayalam | As the wife of the sub-collector of Malabar district Malabar District Malabar District was an administrative district of Madras Presidency in British India and independent India's Madras State. The British district included the present-day districts of Kannur, Kozhikode, Wayanad, Malappuram, Palakkad , and Chavakad Taluk of Thrissur District in the northern part of... , British India. |
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| 2011 | Kedi Kedi Kedi is a 2006 Indian Tamil film written and directed by Jyothi Krishna, who earlier directed the 2004 Tamil film Enakku 20 Unakku 18. Starring his brother Ravi Krishna in the lead role, the film marks the Kollywood debut of the female artists Ileana and Tamanna Bhatia, whilst Ramesh Khanna, Atul... |
Telugu Telugu language Telugu is a Central Dravidian language primarily spoken in the state of Andhra Pradesh, India, where it is an official language. It is also spoken in the neighbouring states of Chattisgarh, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Orissa and Tamil Nadu... |
Special appearance | |
| Dam 999 Dam 999 Dam 999 is a 2011 English 3-D UAE-Indian co-production film produced by BizTV Network, UAE and directed by Sohan Roy. The film is based on the award winning short documentary DAMs - The Lethal Water Bombs. and the Banqiao dam disaster of 1975 that claimed the lives of 250,000 people in China and... |
Sandra | English English language English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria... |
Indian English movie |