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- Ms. Aneesh Sheth (she/her/hers) is a singer, actress, producer, director, and transgender activist. Born in Pune, India and relocation to the United States at an early age, she quickly found a passion for music, studying piano, flute, and classical voice training. After receiving her BFA from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts for Musical Theatre, she spent the next few years working on tour including with the Broadway National Tour of A.R. Rahman's Bombay Dreams, and regionally with several companies including PlayGround SF, Playwrights Foundation, The Asian American Theatre Company, Village Theater and The 5th Avenue Theatre before returning to New York. Her off-Broadway credits include Southern Comfort, Twelfth Night: Mobile Unit, Public Studio, Public Forum, and Shakespeare Initiatives programs at the Public Theater, as well as Soho Rep, Lincoln Center Theater, NAMT, NYMF and WP Theater.
In addition to her two-decade long stage career, she is a familiar face in television and film, having made her network debut on NBC's Outsourced and since appearing in Hulu's Difficult People, HBO's High Maintenance and The Other Two, NBC's New Amsterdam, Insomnia on Revry+, and most recently The Walking Dead on AMC. She is most notably known as "Gillian", assistant to the titular character, in the third and final season of Marvel's Jessica Jones now on Disney+. She also made a cameo in IFC's A Kid Like Jake alongside Jim Parsons and can be seen as a principal in First One In on Amazon Prime. Coming up, she will appear as a principal character in Amazon Prime's Red, White & Royal Blue, a film adaptation of the novel by the same name, written by New York Time's best-selling author Casey McQuiston, with a screenplay and direction by Olivier and Tony Award winner Matthew Lopez (The Inheritance) releasing om August 11, 2023.
Along with her work in theatre, film, and television, Aneesh sits on the Board of Directors for The Sappho Project, and is an event host, trans activist, educator, and panelist. In March 2013 Advocate Magazine honored Aneesh Sheth on their 40 Under 40 List.
In January 2020 she was awarded the HRC Visibility Award at the HRC Annual Gala for her activism and advocacy by the Human Rights Campaign, the largest LGBTQ+ political lobbying organization in the United States committed to protecting and expanding rights for LGBTQ+ individuals.
She is represented by Take 3 Talent Agency and managed by 1022m Management.
June 2023- IMDb mini biography by: Official Website
- SpousesMichael Schumpert(April 13, 2013 - December 10, 2015) (divorced)Michael Mumford(September 21, 2008 - June 29, 2009) (his death)
- Gender / Gender identityFemale
- Aneesh Sheth was listed on Advocate Magazine's 40 Under 40 list in 2013.
- Aneesh Sheth is developing a new series for television. - 2023.
- Recipient of the HRC Visibility Award 2020 of Greater Cincinnati.
- When I announced to my family and friends that I would be transitioning, I also announced that I'd be returning to school to pursue a new career in social work. I never thought I could work as a transgender actress. I had been working in the social service field until I had gotten the call for Outsourced. After my experience with the show, I realized acting was my first love.
- I would love to leave my mark in Hollywood, crossing boundaries and making history. I'd like to be a woman people can look to and say I can be who I am and achieve my dreams.
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