Shefali Chowdhury is a British actress best known for playing the role of Parvati Patil in the Harry Potter film series

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Life and career

Chowdhury was born in Denbigh

Denbigh

Denbigh is a market town and community in Denbighshire, Wales. Before 1888, it was the county town of Denbighshire. Denbigh lies 8 miles to the north west of Ruthin and to the south of St Asaph. It is about 13 miles from the seaside resort of Rhyl. The town grew around the glove-making industry...

, Wales

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 and moved to Birmingham

Birmingham

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 when she was six. She is of Bangladeshi origin; her parents immigrated to England from Bangladesh in the 1980s.

Chowdhury landed the role of Parvati Patil in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (film)

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire is a 2005 fantasy film directed by Mike Newell and based on the novel of the same name by J. K. Rowling. It is the fourth instalment in the Harry Potter film series, written by Steve Kloves and produced by David Heyman...

whilst she was still a student in her final year at Waverley School

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 in Birmingham

Birmingham

Birmingham is a city and metropolitan borough in the West Midlands of England. It is the most populous British city outside the capital London, with a population of 1,036,900 , and lies at the heart of the West Midlands conurbation, the second most populous urban area in the United Kingdom with a...

. She completed her A Levels at Solihull Sixth Form College and went on to study Media, Communication and Production at Birmingham City University

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She plays Harry Potter

Harry Potter

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's Yule Ball date, Parvati Patil, in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. She reprised her role in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (film)

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix is a 2007 fantasy film directed by David Yates and based on the novel of the same name by J. K. Rowling. It is the fifth instalment in the Harry Potter film series, written by Michael Goldenberg and produced by David Heyman and David Barron...

and Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (film)

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince is a 2009 fantasy film directed by David Yates and based on the novel of the same name by J. K. Rowling. It is the sixth instalment in the Harry Potter film series, written by Steve Kloves and produced by David Heyman and David Barron...

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Filmography

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2005	Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire is the fourth novel in the Harry Potter series written by J. K. Rowling, published on 8 July 2000.The novel won a Hugo Award in 2001, the only Harry Potter novel to do so...	Parvati Patil
	Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (video game) Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix is a video game that is based on the fifth instalment of the popular Harry Potter series by J. K. Rowling and the film of the same name, for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, PSP, Nintendo DS, Wii, Game Boy Advance and Mac OS X...	Parvati Patil	Video Game
2007	Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix is the fifth in the Harry Potter series written by J. K. Rowling, and was published on 21 June 2003 by Bloomsbury in the United Kingdom, Scholastic in the United States, and Raincoast in Canada...
2009	Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (film) Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince is a 2009 fantasy film directed by David Yates and based on the novel of the same name by J. K. Rowling. It is the sixth instalment in the Harry Potter film series, written by Steve Kloves and produced by David Heyman and David Barron...

See also

• List of British Bangladeshis
• List of Harry Potter cast members
• Afshan Azad
  Afshan Azad
  Afshan Azad is an English actress best known for playing the role of Padma Patil in the Harry Potter film series.-Career:...
  
  

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