Suraiya, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Suraiya

Indian actress, Singer

Date of Birth: 15-Jun-1929

Place of Birth: Gujranwala, Punjab, Pakistan

Date of Death: 31-Jan-2004

Profession: actor, singer

Nationality: India

Zodiac Sign: Gemini

Suraiya Jamal Sheikh (15 June 1929 – 31 January 2004), popularly known by the mononym Suraiya, was a popular Indian Hindi/Hindustani film actress and playback singer in Bollywood.
She was active from 1936 to 1963.In a career spanning from 1936 to 1963, Suraiya acted in 67 films and sang 338 songs.
She was one of the greatest actresses of the Hindi Cinema and a leading lady in Bollywood in 1940s and 1950s.
She was also a renowned playback singer, who mostly sang for her own films in Bollywood, starting from a song in Nai Duniya (1942) when she was only 12 years old.She was known for her North Indian Muslim feudal style acting or adakari in many of her films Suraiya made her first appearance as a child artist with the film Madame Fashion (1936), directed by Jaddan Bai.
She made her acting debut with the film Taj Mahal in which she played the role of Mumtaz Mahal.
In her heydays, she was known as Malika-e-Husn (queen of beauty), Malika-e-Tarannum (queen of melody) and Malika-e-Adakari (queen of acting).
Suraiya was the highest paid actress in the 1940s and 1950s and won several awards for her performances in Indian films.