Sania Saeed

Sania Saeed
Born	Sania Saeed Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan.
Residence	Gulistan-e-Jauhar, Karachi Sindh, Pakistan.
Nationality	Pakistani
Other names	Sani, Method Actress
Education	M.Sc. in Psychology
Alma mater	University of Karachi, Karachi.
Occupation	Television Actress, Theater Actress, Host, Anchor.
Years active	1989-present
Known for	First Announcer at NTM, Karachi.
Notable work(s)	Aahat, Sitara Aur Mehrunnisa, Zaib un Nisa, Shayad Ke Bahar Aye, Khamoshiyan
Spouse(s)	Shahid Shafaat (m.1999-present)
Awards	Lux Style Award for Best Actress (4) PTV Award for Best Actress (2)

Sania Saeed (Urdu: ثانیہ سعید‎) is a Pakistani actress of television, Host, TV Director and Theater artist. She is one of the most early and leading actresses of PTV, starting her career in 1989 from Indian script based theater play Aurat which marked her way to Pakistani television screens.

She was the first announcer of Network Television Marketing transmission from Karachi, The first private TV channel in Pakistan and also NTM was her proper medium to TV Industry. She then appear in Haseena Moin's serial Aahat by Sahira Kazmi and Anwar Maqsood's Sitara Aur Mehrunissa by Zark in 1991 & 1992 respectively, which rose Saeed to her stardom in Pakistan Television Industry. Saeed has been in television for over 21 years and had appeared in number of plays and dramas.^[1]

Saeed is an active theater artist and member of survival theater bench. Sania also shows her skills as a host for social issue reality program Ariel-Maa Tujhe Salaam. She is considered as a Thinking Man Actress of Pakistan because of her selection of roles and research on them, more commonly she entitled herself by a way of acting called method acting.

She won PTV Award for Best Actress twice one in 1991 and one in 2011 and received four Lux Style Awards in Best Actress category-a record for any performer till date.

Early life and education

Sania was born to a Muslim Family in Karachi to a highly intellectuals family. Her father was psychologist and doctor. Sania's mothers is a linguists, microbiologist and teacher. She has two siblings. She started acting at the age of 10 with a media medium Theater along with her parents. She then left and focused on her studies. She did her early education from St Joseph's Convent School (Karachi) and later joined P.E.C.H.S. Girls School, Karachi for higher studies. She completed her Masters in Psychology of Human Behavior.

Personal life

Sania Saeed led a very simple life, she is currently living in Karachi at Gulshan-e-Jauher, She married to her longtime friend and colleague who is theater, TV and film director Shahid Shafaat in 1999. Sania mostly spent her time in home and made very less media appearance, she usually refuse to appear in talk shows. She is a cat lover and has a Siamese (cat) which she named her Makkhan. Sania saeed has started a theater Katha on community basis, which did program with children and brought it to NTM to develop into plays, She also had some workshops with special children.

Career

Sania Saeed has often been termed as Thinking man's actor or One Pause Actor due to her selection of roles and her portraying by expressions with minimum cult of dialogues. She also recognize as the method actress of Pakistan, an acting skill in which a person develop his own emotions with the character.^[2]

In her acting career spans over 2 decades she appears off-an-on at screens, but with magnetically strong scripted, thinking and thought provoking projects. She is best known for her roles in Aahat, Khamoshiyan, Zaib un Nisa, Ab tum ja saktay ho, Shayad Ke Bahar Aye and many others.^[3]

Her roles of substance followed, such as in Mehru, Dhoop Mein Sawan, Kahaniyan and currently Shayad Ke Bahar Aae, which a meticulous Sania has occasionally balanced with such lighter fare as Sultana Siddiquis sitcom, Chhoti Chhoti Baatein, again, in defiance of being labelled as a ‘serious’ actress only.^[4]

Social work and charity

Sania saeed didn't believe social work on charity, in an interview she said:

"This is only to satisfy the ego of one if he says that I do social work. Whatever I do, I do it for my country as they are my people any happening in the country it will definitely affect me. Every one has its own interests. My interest is towards literacy growth, respect and recognition of women. Definitely its going to move me & have affects on me. I don't want to leave vacuum at a place where I am working now. I believe in continuity & take over. I am not a person who does something for the results, rather I will keep struggling for the betterment of the women folk of our country. I want equal rights for the women like men. I don't know whether my efforts will be fruitful or not but I will keep struggling and will keep on playing my role in the society.I have also done talk shows like "Sehar Honay Ko hai", "Hawwa Kay Naam" and currently "Maa". If we talk about the issues related to women, one can feel that they are not just the issues of women, they are the issues of men as well, and even they are the issues of society. If we talk about labour laws, we prefer women to focus on them. Why because they are the most exploited faction of our society. Similarly the issues of children are important as well. There are issues like child labour, child abuse, and violence. Even we don't consider beating of a child by his father or mother an issue but to me it is an issue. It is creating violence in the society. I think all these issues are interlinked & therefore, be eliminated to have an amicable society."

—Sania Saeed, ^[5]

Television shows

Drama serials

Telefilms and long plays

Theater and stage plays

Talk Shows

Awards and nominations

References

External links

• Sania Saeed on Facebook
• Sania Saeed at the Internet Movie Database
• Sania Saeed on forumpakistan.com
• Sania Saeed on urduwire.com

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