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Love Matters: Created by Bede Blake. With Katherine Parkinson, Isy Suttie, Sarah Solemani, Dan Clark.
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- 2013-03-28
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Apr 3, 2013 · Sarah Solemani, writer and star of Aphrodite Fry, talks about going naked on screen, writing for stage and television, and her co-starring roles in comedies Bad Education and Him & Her... To start off, how would you describe Aphrodite Fry to our readers?
Apr 4, 2013 · Aphrodite Fry: Directed by Vanessa Caswill. With Sarah Solemani, Rosamund Hanson, Tom Stanley, Alex Price. A romantic comedy about innocence and sex that captures Brighton in all its glory and the amusing collision of characters who reside there.
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- Comedy
- Vanessa Caswill
- 2013-04-04
Sarah Solemani, the leading lady of hit series Him & Her, doubles as star and scribe for Aphrodite Fry. Having written award-winning plays for the stage in London and New York, Sarah Solemani creates her first television script exclusively for Sky Living .
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Solemani was born in the London Borough of Camden and grew up in Crouch End.[citation needed] Her father is a Persian Jewish mathematics lecturer (now retired).[citation needed] After passing her A levels at the Henrietta Barnett School, she took a gap year before reading Social and Political Sciences (now the Human, Social and Political Sciences T...
Theatre
Solemani was a member of the National Youth Theatre during her gap year, during which time she appeared as Elaine in the West End theatre production of The Graduate and as Ayesha in the critically acclaimed National Theatre production of Sanctuary. She was a member of the Young Writer's Group attached to the Royal Court Theatre, and a writer at the Young Vic Theatre. Two plays she wrote were produced at Soho Theatre. Another of her works, The Cost of Things (2010), was presented at the Public...
Television and film
Solemani's first film role was as a tableaux girl in Mrs Henderson Presents, which she performed during her third year of college. Her first major TV role was as Becky in BBC Three sitcom Him & Her, which was first broadcast in September 2010, and ran for four series, before ending in 2013. From 2012 until 2014, Solemani starred as Rosie Gulliver in the BBC Three comedy, Bad Education, including its spin off movie The Bad Education Movie and a one-off special in 2022. In 2013, she featured in...
Print
Solemani has contributed to the New Statesman, The Guardian, The Independent and Harper's Bazaar. She writes regularly for the publications Red and Glamour.[citation needed]
Solemani was awarded third place in the Barry Amiel and Norman Melburn Trust/New StatesmanPrize for New Political Writing on the subject: "Do women's rights remain the privilege of the developed world?" in 2005. In 2011, Solemani won the Royal Television Society award for best Comedy Performance for her role in Him & Her along with her co-star Russ...
Solemani is against the criminalisation of sex work, and has been a champion for sex workers' rights since 2002.[citation needed] She was nominated by the English Collective of Prostitutes (ECP) to represent them in Parliament in order to halt further efforts to criminalise clients. She was an active supporter of former shadow Home Secretary Yvette...
Solemani married Daniel E. Ingram, a sustainable investment expert specialising in climate change, in Petah Tikva, Israel, on 3 June 2012. Their daughter was born in December 2013 and their son was born in May 2018. Raised by an Orthodox Jewish father and a Plymouth Brethren evangelical mother, Solemani has formally converted to Judaismalong with h...
Mar 28, 2013 · Read our critical review of Love Matters (series one, episodes three and four), the Sky short film strand starring Isy Suttie and Sarah Solemani.
Apr 5, 2013 · Him & Her star Sarah Solemani’s entry into the entertaining Love Matters (Sky Living) run of comedy shorts is surely worth working up into a full series.
