Ismail Bashey
- Actor
- Additional Crew
Ismail originally hails from Bombay, India where he began his acting
career at a fairly young age, taking an active part in every school
production from Shakespeare to Moliere. He began performing on stage
professionally in Musical Theatre in productions such as Grease; They
Are Playing our Song and Best of Broadway. He has trained extensively
in jazz ballet under the guidance of Karla Singh and Shiamak Davar. He
then moved to New York and began his acting career in the Big Apple. He
trained at the Lee Strasberg theater Institute in New York for 3 years.
During that time he was working on the local south Asian cable channels
such as ITV and ATN as a TV host introducing Music videos and Bollywood
tidbits. He then began the auditioning circuit around that time and
landed some guest roles in independent features such as the Tic Code
(starring Gregory Hines). He also began acting on the popular Zee TV
drama Mausam that was filmed in New York and Bombay. He was recently
seen in the independent feature film Wings of Hope for which he won
Best Actor at the Cinevue International film festival.