Mehreen Raheel
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Mehreen Raheel is one of Pakistan
Pakistan
Pakistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan is a sovereign state in South Asia. It has a coastline along the Arabian Sea and the Gulf of Oman in the south and is bordered by Afghanistan and Iran in the west, India in the east and China in the far northeast. In the north, Tajikistan...

's leading models, with dozens of product commercials, cover pages of magazines like Libaas, and many photo shoots of clothes and jewelry to her credit. She is a familiar face to Head & Shoulders
Head & Shoulders
Head & Shoulders is a brand of anti-dandruff shampoo produced by Procter & Gamble. Head & Shoulders Classic Clean Shampoo is the top-selling shampoo in the United States by dollar sales.- History :...

 and Pantene
Pantene
Pantene is a brand of hair care products owned by Procter & Gamble. The product line was first introduced in Europe in 1947 by Hoffman-LaRoche of Switzerland, which branded the name based on panthenol as a shampoo ingredient...

 users, as well as to Lipton
Lipton
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 tea drinkers, Telenor
Telenor
Telenor Group is the incumbent telecommunications company in Norway, with headquarters located at Fornebu, close to Oslo. Today, Telenor Group is mostly an international wireless carrier with operations in Scandinavia, Eastern Europe and Asia, working predominantly under the Telenor brand...

 and even Ufone
Ufone
Ufone GSM is a Pakistani GSM cellular service provider, It's one of five GSM Mobile companies in Pakistan, and is a subsidiary of Pakistan Telecommunication Company. After the privatization of PTCL, Ufone is now owned by Etisalat. Ufone has a subscriber base of 20.23 million as of September 2010.-...

 phone users. She is also an actress who has appeared in television series and a TV Host
Presenter
A presenter, or host , is a person or organization responsible for running an event. A museum or university, for example, may be the presenter or host of an exhibit. Likewise, a master of ceremonies is a person that hosts or presents a show...

.

Biography

She is the daughter of Simi Raheel http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2723046/bio who is a talented, renowned TV artist and a social activist who works for a leading NGO and is a gender trainer. Her family is from Lahore
Lahore
Lahore is the capital of the Pakistani province of Punjab and the second largest city in the country. With a rich and fabulous history dating back to over a thousand years ago, Lahore is no doubt Pakistan's cultural capital. One of the most densely populated cities in the world, Lahore remains a...

 but she has traveled a lot due to her father being in Army. She admits that she was brought mainly by her mother because her father was in Rahimiyar Khan setting up a sugar mill
Sugar beet
Sugar beet, a cultivated plant of Beta vulgaris, is a plant whose tuber contains a high concentration of sucrose. It is grown commercially for sugar production. Sugar beets and other B...

 in Quetta
Quetta
is the largest city and the provincial capital of the Balochistan Province of Pakistan. Known as the "Fruit Garden of Pakistan" due to the diversity of its plant and animal wildlife, Quetta is home to the Hazarganji Chiltan National Park, which contains some of the rarest species of wildlife in the...

. She has a younger brother name Danyal Raheel, who is studying Bachelors in Theater, Film & Television from Beaconhouse National University Lahore and is in process of becoming an actor. Her nick name is Annie. She is a daughter of retired army captain Shahid.

Education and Child artist

Mehreen has changed many schools starting from the Lahore School of Arts & Sciences, Lahore Grammar etc. Since she was a child, she has had an eye for fashion and her heart set on a media career. Her first commercial project was when she was around 8. She did a couple of more commercials when she was around 13 or 14. She also did a play called Ajnabee Rastay where she was portrayed as a minor character. She later went to London
London
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 and achieved a diploma in dancing, drama, and script writing. http://www.thesaturdaypost.com/rendezvous_47_mehreenraheal.html When she came back from London, she entered in the media business.

Career

She joined Nabeela’s advertising and got her first project in ICI. She has done few ramps because she is not very enthusiastic about that particular type of modeling. She has mostly done ads and photography for clothes and jewelry. Some products she advertised are for Head and Shoulders, Pantene, lipton, Telenor, UFone, PTCL
PTCL
PTCL may be:* Pakistan Telecommunication Company Ltd, Pakistan* Peripheral T-cell lymphoma* Physical and Theoretical Chemistry Laboratory, University of Oxford, England...

, Sooper Biscuits etc.

She has done ramp modeling, but prefers shoots.

Raheel has appeared in several dramas, but her successful dramas to date are Meri Zaat Zarra e benishan and Dastaan
Dastaan
Dastaan is a music album produced by Pakistani pop singer, Ali Haider. It was a blend of Pop and Rock style music which Haider tried for a new genre type of music.-Track listing:#"Dastaan"#"Jaania"#"Koi Darwazah"#"Maria"#"Meri Jaan"#"Papa Mummi"...

. Raheel is working on several acting projects.She was also nominated for the best actress at the Lux Style Awards
Lux Style Awards
The Lux Style Awards is an award ceremony held annually in Pakistan since 2002. The awards celebrate "style" in the Pakistani entertainment industry, and honour the country's best talents in film, television, music, and fashion. Around 30 awards are given annually.The Lux Style Awards is considered...

 for her play kabhi aye na judaai.

Humanitarian work

She travalled to India
India
India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...

 as an Ambassador for the Standard Chartered fundraising marathon for the Tsunami
Tsunami
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. She has worked in Thailand
Thailand
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 with young children and in raising money to fund education. She takes part in humanitarian activities in Pakistan
Pakistan
Pakistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan is a sovereign state in South Asia. It has a coastline along the Arabian Sea and the Gulf of Oman in the south and is bordered by Afghanistan and Iran in the west, India in the east and China in the far northeast. In the north, Tajikistan...

.

Drama Serials

  • Ajnabee Rastay
  • Gardish
  • 3 Bata 3
  • Kothi No. 156
  • Meri Zaat Zarra e benishan
  • Mujhe Hai Hukume Azan
  • Dastaan (drama)
    Dastaan (drama)
    Dastaan is a Pakistani drama serial dramatized by Samira Fazal, and based on the novel "Bano", by Razia Butt. It is based on the Partition of India , and takes place between 1947 and 1956. The drama depicts the story of Bano, a girl from a close knit Muslim family living in Ludhiana in the...

     (Hum TV)
  • Kabhi aye naa judai
  • Mastana Mahi

Movies

Film Role Notes
Freedom Sound (film) (2010) Angelina Delayed
Virsa
Virsa
Virsa is a Punjabi language film revolving around social and cultural values. The film is a joint venture between India and Pakistan.It has been directed by Pankaj Batra. It has a huge budget for a Punjabi movie...

 (2010)
Mahi Released in India
India
India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...

 and Pakistan
Pakistan
Pakistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan is a sovereign state in South Asia. It has a coastline along the Arabian Sea and the Gulf of Oman in the south and is bordered by Afghanistan and Iran in the west, India in the east and China in the far northeast. In the north, Tajikistan...

. Successful in both countries.

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