In 2008, she took a small supporting role in the film Wanted. In 2012, she starred as Soraya in Wah! Wah! Girls. In 2005, she starred as Janoo Rani in the West End theatre musical production of The Far Pavilions. In 2002, Haque returned to the United Kingdom to star as Rani in Andrew Lloyd Webber's Bombay Dreams. Her first Bollywood film was Khoobsurat, and she later made several more including Mangal Pandey: The Rising. From 1994, she began appearing on TV in India and in 1997 she moved to Mumbai full-time to work on the Channel V India service. Haque was employed as a presenter at STAR TV in Hong Kong in 1992. Subsequently, she worked as a video jockey for MTV Asia for seven years and Channel V. Haque started as the lead vocalist in the band Akasa they signed a deal with Warner Bros. She attended Priory School in Portsmouth, and took dancing lessons from the age of two and a half at Mary Forrester's Rainbow School of Dance before moving at the age of 13 to London (where she lived with her father, Amirul Haque, a restaurateur, and his second wife), training full-time at the Arts Educational Schools, London. She was brought up by her mother, Thelma, a schoolteacher. Haque was born Syeda Sophia Haque in Portsmouth, Hampshire to a Bangladeshi father and a British Jewish mother.
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