Sujata Choudhury (born June 27, 1984), credited professionally as Sujata Day, is an American actress, model and screenwriter. She is best known for her roles as CeeCee in the Issa Rae web series, '' The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl'' (2011-2013) and Sarah in ''

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''. Day made her directorial debut with the 2020 comedy-drama, '' Definition Please.''

Early life

The daughter of an Indian-born mechanical engineer and a housewife Sujata became involved in the performing arts at a very young age. She began with dance (ballet, jazz, modern, hip hop, and East Indian folk and classical dance) and then became equally interested in acting, singing and musical theater. She continued to study and perform in school and community productions before heading west to pursue a professional acting career in

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. She is of

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descent.

Career

Sujata has appeared in a wide variety of television shows such as ''

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'', '' 7th Heaven'', ''

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'', and '' The Loop''. In 2007, she played a supporting role in the Warner Bros.-produced '' Sublime''. She can be seen alongside

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and

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in the independent film '' Down for Life'' which premiered to rave reviews at the

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. In 2009 she appeared in the horror/comedy film '' The Last Lovecraft: Relic of Cthulhu'', which screened at the 2010

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. She starred as CeCe in the

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-created web comedy series '' The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl''. She continued her work with Rae on the HBO series, ''

''. In 2017, Day wrote, produced, directed and starred in a film called ''Cowboy and Indian'', to be developed into a television series. On May 30, 2019, it was announced that Day will direct a film called '' Definition Please'', for which she also wrote the script. It stars Ritesh Rajan and

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and was shot on location in Greensburg, Pennsylvania in the summer of 2019.

Filmography

Film

Television

Video games

Production

References

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Day, Sujata Actresses from Pennsylvania American film actresses American stage actresses American television actresses American actresses of Indian descent Living people 1984 births 21st-century American actresses American women film directors American people of Bengali descent American writers of Indian descent American models of Indian descent American actors of Indian descent