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Mehreen Raheel
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Born
Mehreen Raheel
NationalityPakistan Pakistani
Occupation(s)Model, Film actress, TV actress
SpouseAtif Azhar Malik(2009-present)
ParentSeemi Raheel


Mehreen Raheel (Urdu: م‍ﮩ‍رين راحبل ) is one of Pakistan's leading models, with dozens of product commercials, cover pages of magazines like Libaas, and many photo shoots of clothes and jewelry to her credit. She is a familiar face to Head & Shoulders and Pantene users, as well as to Lipton tea drinkers, Telenor and even Ufone phone users. She is also an actress and a TV Host.

Biography

She is the daughter of Simin Raheel[1] who is a talented, renowned TV artist and a social activist who works for a leading NGO and is a gender trainer. Her family is from Lahore but she has traveled a lot due to her father being in Army. She admits that she was brought mainly by her mother because her father was in Rahimiyar Khan setting up a sugar mill. She has a younger brother name Danyal Raheel who studied film making and theater and is in process of becoming an actor.

Education and Child artist

Mehreen has changed many schools starting from the Lahore School of Arts & Sciences, Lahore Grammar etc. Since she was a child, she has had an eye for fashion and her heart set on a media career. Her first commercial project was when she was around 8. She did a couple of more commercials when she was around 13 or 14. She also did a play called Ajnabee Rastay where she was portrayed as a minor character. She later went to London and achieved a diploma in dancing, drama, and script writing.[citation needed] When she came back from London, she entered in the media business.

Career

She joined Nabeela’s advertising and got her first project in ICI. She has done few ramps because she is not very enthusiastic about that particular type of modeling. She has mostly done ads and photography for clothes and jewelry. Some products she advertised are for Head and Shoulders, Pantene, lipton, Telenor, UFone, PTCL, Sooper Biscuits etc.

She treveled to India as an Ambassador for the Standard Chartered fundraising marathon for theTsunami. She has worked in Thailand where she did few advertisements for different brands of shampoos. She has also worked in London.

Personnel Life

Mehreen Raheel is married to Atif Azhar Malik and now lives in Pakistan.

Credits

Drama Serials

  • Gardish
  • Kothi No. 156
  • 3 Bata 3
  • Meri Zaat Zarra e beinishan

Movies

Film Role Nominations/Awards
Freedom Sound (film) (2010) Nadia
Virsa (2010) Sonia

References