Sitara Hewitt
{{short description|Canadian actress}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Sitara Hewitt
| image = Sitara2020.jpg
| imagesize = 190
| alt =
| caption = Hewitt in 2021
| birth_name =
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1981|12|27|mf=yes}}
| birth_place = Elora, Ontario, Canada
| death_date =
| death_place =
| othername = Tara Hewitt
| occupation = Actress, model
| years_active = 2002–present
| spouse = {{marriage|Jessie Pavelka|2008|2016|reason=divorced}}
| children = 1
| partner =
| website = {{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20070320043929/http://www.sitarahewitt.com/]}}
}}
Sitara Hewitt (also known as Tara Hewitt; born December 27, 1981){{cite web|url=https://www.amazon.com/prime-video/actor/Sitara-Hewitt/nm2060229/ |title=Sitara Hewitt |website=Amazon}} is a Canadian Americanhttps://www.instagram.com/sitara_hewitt/p/CPPgrdrtAHJ/ {{Self-published source|date=August 2022}} film and television actress and model.
Background
Sitara Hewitt is the daughter of a Pakistani mother, Dr. Farida Hewitt and a Welsh father, Dr. Kenneth Hewitt. Her parents are professors at Wilfrid Laurier University. Sitara was raised primarily in Elora, Ontario, where she attended St. John's-Kilmarnock School.{{cite news | first=Heidi | last=McKenzie | title=Little Mosque's Sitara Hewitt heads home — to the GTA — for the holidays | url=https://www.thestar.com/article/300649 | archive-url=https://archive.today/20070813205344/http://www.thestar.com/article/300649 | url-status=dead | archive-date=August 13, 2007 | location=Toronto | newspaper=Toronto Star | date=February 7, 2008 }} During her childhood she spent time living in the Himalayan mountains, specifically in the Hunza Valley of Gilgit-Baltistan where her parents did their academic field research on both the glaciers and in the small villages in the valleys.{{cite book|title=The Other Side of Silence: The Lives of Women in the Karakoram Mountains|first=Farida|last=Azhar-Hewitt|publisher=iUniverse|year=2011|page=xii-xvi|isbn=978-1450287678}}
Hewitt was married to American actor Jessie Pavelka and they have a son, Rowan, who was born in 2010. Pavelka and Hewitt separated in 2015 and divorced late 2016.{{Citation needed|date=June 2023}} She is fluent in both Urdu, and English and is semi-fluent in Balti. Hewitt was raised Christian as both of her parents are Anglican Christians. Her first name "Sitara", means "star" in Urdu.[https://web.archive.org/web/20110928195933/http://www.egothemag.com/?p=311 EGO Magazine: Sitara Hewitt] EGO Magazine. October 8, 2008.
Hewitt revealed in a post that she had been a citizen of the United States for some time.
Career
In Canada Hewitt starred on CBC Television's Little Mosque on the Prairie as Dr. Rayyan Hamoudi for 6 seasons. She is known across America as the Spokesperson for Hughesnet internet. She was a recurring on CBS's The Young and the Restless as well as on All Rise and plays the lead in several Hallmark Movies. She was also a co-host on the Comedy Network's pop-culture game show You Bet Your Ass.
She owns a Meditation company, and is a wellness expert. Hewitt also hosted TV shows for Sportsnet and TSN while studying acting in Toronto and trained with World Wrestling Entertainment in the United States.{{citation needed|date=August 2017}}
Filmography
| class="wikitable sortable"
|+ Television and film roles |
| scope="col" | Year
! scope="col" | Title ! scope="col" | Role ! scope="col" class="unsortable" | Notes |
|---|
| 2002
| Dancer | |
| 2003
| Code | Sara | Short |
| 2005
| Sohni Sapna | Evil Sister | Short |
| 2005
| Fragile | Zahra | |
| 2006
| Bolly Double | Cham-Cham | |
| 2007–2012
| Little Mosque on the Prairie | Rayyan Hamoudi | Lead Role |
| 2011
| Lita | Episode: Can't See the Fae-Rest |
| 2013
| Cracked | Juvina Kapoor | Episode: Inquest |
| 2013
| Torment | Deputy | |
| 2017
| My Crazy Sex | Sara | Episode: Love Hurts |
| 2017
| Escape the Night | Blue Harpy | Episodes: The Gingerbread Woman and Endless Winter Night |
| 2017
| Billie Williams | Episode: Lucky Strikes |
| 2017-2018
| Past Malice | Adelle Fisher | Episodes: Site Unseen: An Emma Fielding Mystery and Past Malice: An Emma Fielding Mystery |
| 2018
| data-sort-value="Young and the Restless, The" | The Young and the Restless | Helen Wallace | 3 episodes |
| 2018
| Casey | Episode: Red Flags and Parades |
| 2019
| data-sort-value="Fusion Generation, The" | The Fusion Generation | Catherine | Teejay Sahota |
| 2019
| All Rise | Priya Chavan | Episode: A View from the Bus |
| 2019
| data-sort-value="Michael Jackson Magical Moon-Tour, The" | The Michael Jackson Magical Moon-Tour | Eve Zarifa | |
| 2020
| Vanessa Maddox | Episode: Old Dog, New Tricks |
References
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External links
- [http://www.cbc.ca/thehour/video.php?id=1367 The Hour Interview with George Stroumboulopoulos]
- {{IMDb name| id=2060229 | name=Sitara Hewitt}}
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20080131131938/http://www.andpop.com/article/5634 andPOP Interview]
- [https://grandcelebs.com/sitara-hewitt/ Sitara Hewitt Biography]
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Category:Canadian people of Welsh descent
Category:Canadian television actresses
Category:People from Centre Wellington
Category:Actresses from Ontario
Category:Canadian actresses of Pakistani descent
Category:21st-century Canadian actresses
Category:Canadian emigrants to the United States
Category:Naturalized citizens of the United States