Rebecca Hazlewood

Hazlewood in Sucking Is a Fine Quality in Women and Vacuum Cleaners, a 2006 short film

Rebecca Jane Hazlewood is a British actress.

Early life

Hazlewood was born in Wales and grew up in the village of Kingswinford in the Black Country, West Midlands. She is of Anglo-Indian descent. She was born into care and adopted through the Church of England Society.

Career

Hazlewood was discovered by designer Caryn Franklin, who selected her to model on the BBC’s The Clothes Show while Hazlewood was skipping school.

On British television, Hazlewood played Arun Parmar in the psychodrama Bad Girls. In the United States, she played Asha in the NBC sitcom Outsourced, which aired for one season.

Other early work included acting as Talia Ahmed in the ITV series Second Sight alongside Clive Owen, in the Masters of the Universe a special BBC week-long series in January 2010 as college lecturer Sia and the 2001 British Film4 feature Dog Eat Dog with David Oyelowo, Gary Kemp and Ricky Gervais. In 2006 she featured as Beth in Meeting Helen. She appeared in a lead role in the indie feature film Kissing Cousins.

In 2007, Hazlewood played young Parin in The Ode, based on the novel Ode to Lata by acclaimed novelist Ghalib Shiraz Dhalla. In 2008, Hazlewood appeared throughout Season 14 of the NBC drama ER, portraying Jaspreet, a wayward cousin of Neela's, who came straight from London in order to avoid an arranged marriage. In 2009, Hazlewood appeared as Nalini, an Ajira Airways ticket agent, in season 5 of Lost. In 2011, Hazlewood appeared as Meera in Embrace, written, directed and produced by Ghalib Shiraz Dhalla. In 2012, Hazlewood guest starred on Grey's Anatomy, episode 17, "One Step Too Far". In 2013, Hazlewood guest-starred on the White Collar season 5 episode "Digging Deeper". She appeared in the film Equals directed by Drake Doremus and produced by Ridley Scott.

She guest-starred in multiple episodes of The Good Place as Kamilah.

Rebecca has a cameo role in experimental feature Lost In London, written and directed by Woody Harrelson, which was filmed in one take and screened live in cinemas across the world.

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2001	Dog Eat Dog	Mina
2005	The Extra	Girlfriend in Cinema
2008	Kissing Cousins	Zara
2008	The Ode	Young Parin
2015	Equals	Zoe
2016	Chee and T	Monie
2017	Lost in London	Herself
2017	The Rush Chairman	Party Girl
2019	Lost Transmissions	Rachel

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1998	Liverpool 1	Janet	Season 1 (guest, #1.5)
2000	Second Sight	Talia Ahmed	Season 2 (guest, #2.1 & #2.2)
2001	Is Harry on the Boat?	Girl with Brad	TV movie
2001–03	Crossroads	Beena Shah	Soap opera (regular)
2004	Doctors	Meena Baker	Soap opera; Season 5 (guest, #5.203)
2005	Bad Girls	Arun Parmar	Season 7 (main, 13 episodes)
2008	ER	Jaspreet	Season 14 (guest, #14.11 & #14.12)
2008	Las dos caras de jano		TV movie
2009	Lost	Nalini	Season 5 (guest, #5.6)
2010	Doctors	Sia Clements	Soap opera; Season 11 (recurring, 5 episodes)
2010–11	Outsourced	Asha	Season 1 (main, all 22 episodes)
2012	Grey's Anatomy	Dr. Mara Keaton	Season 8 (guest, #8.17)
2013	White Collar	Dr. Reva Khatri	Season 5 (guest, #5.8)
2016–20	The Good Place	Kamilah Al-Jamil	Season 1–4 (recurring, 6 episodes)
2020	Room 104	Agnes	Season 4 (guest, #4.12)

Short film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2006	Sucking is a Fine Quality in Women and Vacuum Cleaners	The Mistress
2007	Meeting Helen	Beth
2012	Embrace	Meeta	Also co-producer
2014	Teacher in a Box	Ms Rossi

External links

• Rebecca Hazlewood at IMDb
• Rebecca Hazlewood at instagram
• Rebecca Hazlewood`s Youtube channel
• Teacher in a Box at Youtube