Goldy Notay

Goldy Notay is a British-Canadian film, television and stage actress. She played 'Roopi' as the lead role in the Gurinder Chadha film It's A Wonderful Afterlife.^[1] She has appeared as Shireen in the Mike Bartlett drama The Town^[2] and Amar Akbar & Tony a comedy Brit flick on Netflix.^[3] She is currently in the 6 part ITV series Beecham House, directed by Gurinder Chadha.

Goldy was born in the Punjab. She later moved to Canada and finally settled in London^[4]

She speaks Punjabi and English.

After completing drama school in Toronto, Canada, Goldy was spotted by director Mira Nair while performing on stage at the Tarragon Theatre. She was offered the role of a pre Med student opposite Naveen Andrews in the feature My Own Country. She subsequently moved to the UK and worked extensively with Kali theatre group specialising in stories by Asian Women.^[5]

She is best known for her role as Roopi in It's A Wonderful Afterlife. Roopi was written with her in mind by the writer/director Gurinder Chadha after she saw her perform in a play.^[6]

It's A Wonderful Afterlife was a British feature film where she worked with the director of Bend it like Beckham, Gurinder Chadha who cast a range of British and Indian actors, including Shabana Azmi, Sally Hawkins, Sendhil Ramamurthy and Zoë Wanamaker. She gained two stone (28 pounds) for the role of Roopi which she promptly lost to appear with Sarah Jessica Parker in Sex and the City 2^[7] This was a challenge for the actress who is described as "quite an organic-loving, gym-going kind of girl".^[8]