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Summer Bishil

Highest Rated: 80% Mooz-lum (2010)

Lowest Rated: 15% Crossing Over (2009)

Birthday: Jul 17, 1988

Birthplace: Pasadena, California, USA

With an uncanny ability to portray emotionally tragic characters, Summer Bishil was one Hollywood ingénue who stood out among a sea of cookie-cutter starlets. Bishil's stellar performance in "Towelhead" (2008) as Jasira Maroun, a biracial 13-year-old who gets caught up in a twisted affair and eventually raped by an adult male, was so unsettling, critics everywhere took notice. Like her film character, Bishil was a unique cultural blend - part Indian, part Hispanic and part Caucasian. It was no surprise when Variety chose the exotic beauty as one of the "10 Actors to Watch" in 2007. She also appeared in the L.A. immigrant narrative "Crossing Over" (2008) with Harrison Ford, Sean Penn, Ray Liotta and Ashley Judd - yet another milestone for a young actress on the rise.

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Highest rated movies

80% 78% Mooz-lum
Watchlist 66% 81% Four Samosas Watchlist
49% 58% Towelhead
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15% 49% Crossing Over
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61% Return to Halloweentown
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20% Blast Vegas
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38% Pop Star
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Summer Bishil

Summer Bishil Summer Bishil TOWELHEAD, (aka NOTHING IS PRIVATE), Summer Bishil, Peter Macdissi, 2007. ©Warner Independent Pictures TOWELHEAD, (aka NOTHING IS PRIVATE), from left: Aaron Eckhart, Summer Bishil, 2007. ©Warner Independent Pictures Lucky 7, from left: Lorraine Bruce, Anastasia Phillips, Summer Bishil, Stephen Louis Grush, 'Cable Guy', 10/08/2013, ©ABC Lucky 7, from left: Isiah Whitlock Jr., Kim Roberts, Lorraine Bruce, Stephen Louis Grush, Anastasia Phillips, Matt Dallas, Summer Bishil, 'Inside Job', Season 1, Ep. #2, 10/01/2013, ©ABC Lucky 7, T.J. McGibbon (L), Anastasia Phillips (C), Summer Bishil (R), 'Inside Job', Season 1, Ep. #2, 10/01/2013, ©ABC Lucky 7, T.J. McGibbon (L), Summer Bishil (R), 'Inside Job', Season 1, Ep. #2, 10/01/2013, ©ABC Lucky 7, Summer Bishil (L), Lorraine Bruce (C), Anastasia Phillips (R), 'Inside Job', Season 1, Ep. #2, 10/01/2013, ©ABC Lucky 7, Summer Bishil (L), Lorraine Bruce (C), Anastasia Phillips (R), 'Inside Job', Season 1, Ep. #2, 10/01/2013, ©ABC View more photos

Filmography

Movies

Credit
66% 81% Four Samosas Unknown (Character) $14.4K 2022
No Score Yet 38% Pop Star Priscilla Santos (Character) - 2013
No Score Yet 20% Blast Vegas Serena (Character) - 2013
80% 78% Mooz-lum Iman (Character) - 2010
15% 49% Crossing Over Taslima Jahangir (Character) $454.1K 2009
49% 58% Towelhead Jasira (Character) $371.4K 2007
No Score Yet 61% Return to Halloweentown Aneesa (Character) - 2006

TV

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91% 74% The Magicians Margo Hanson (Character) 2016-2020
No Score Yet No Score Yet Home & Family Guest 2018
No Score Yet 88% At Midnight With Chris Hardwick Guest 2017
29% 0% Lucky 7 Samira Lashari (Character) 2013-2014
78% 83% Law & Order: Special Victims Unit Heba Salim (Guest Star) 2014
No Score Yet 38% 90210 Leila (Guest Star) 2011
31% No Score Yet Three Rivers Unknown (Guest Star) 2009
No Score Yet 88% Hannah Montana Rachel (Guest Star) 2006
No Score Yet 91% Drake & Josh Tabitha (Guest Star) 2006
57% No Score Yet The Whole Truth Unknown (Guest Star)