Soniya Mehra

Mehra is the daughter of actor Vinod Mehra from his third and last wife Kiran. She was less than one years old when her father died in October 1990. She was brought up in Kenya with her brother Rohan by her maternal grandparents.[1] Mehra attended The Mombasa Academy in Mombasa, Kenya and completed her education in London. She began her training in acting at the age of eight in school where she earned the Gold Medal with an Honours at The London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art Acting Examinations. She also took a short course at The Arts Educational Schools of London. When she was 18, she moved to Mumbai and joined Anupam Kher's Actor Prepares - The School of Actors for a 3-month course. Mehra is also a trained dancer, having started ballet when she was five years old and performed various forms of dance such as street jazz, ballroom (which includes samba, tango, blues, and jive), Bollywood dance, kathak, hip hop and belly dancing.

Mehra made her acting debut in 2007 with the release of Victoria No. 203, a remake of the 1972 classic of the same name, and later had roles in the crime drama Shadow (2009), the romantic comedy Ek Main Aur Ek Tu (2012), and the horror thriller Ragini MMS 2 (2014). Mehra has also worked as a VJ on MTV India, participating in various shows such as MTV Grind, MTV News, and MTV Style Check.

• Soniya Mehra at IMDb