Shez Sardar is a SAG-AFTRA television and film actor, producer and lawyer. He was born in Kuwait and is of Indian descent. After moving to Atlanta, Georgia at the age of 9, Shez acted in a variety of theater productions, including classical Greek and Shakespeare. Shez also worked as an actor in independent films and did commercials and print campaigns in the Atlanta market. In 2016, Shez won the Outstanding Lead Actor Award at Tamasha, a Festival for South Asian Performing Arts in New York City for his lead performance in the original play, Borders in a Bedroom, which also received the Outstanding Playwright Award for Shivali Bhammer. Having obtained a J.D. from Emory University with international coursework from the University of Paris, Pantheone-Sorbonne, Shez embarked on a dual acting and legal career. Shez can be seen in guest star network roles on Law & Order: SVU, The Mysteries of Laura, Elementary, The Blacklist, Madam Secretary, and The Punisher/Netlfix. He was selected for the highly competitive NBC Scene Showcase in 2013, and served as an executive producer and lead actor on a multi-episode, original comedy series focused on the tech startup world. He's trained with The William Esper Studio, The Barrow Group, and HB Studio. - IMDb Mini Biography By: Shez Sardar
Received a law degree from Emory University. Was born in Kuwait. Holds a black belt in Karate. Trained with the famed HB Studio in NYC. Alumni include F. Murray Abraham, Jeff Bridges, Matthew Broderick, Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, and Sigourney Weaver.
An exhausted, workaholic actress, Anna Baskin, 44, abruptly extricates herself from a successful but mind-numbing TV role, returning to her past life in New York to reinvent herself. But despite the desire for transformation, she cannot find herself outside of her career. When an upsetting personal betrayal unexpectedly leads to the role of her life, she must confront the reality of her past relationships in order to clear a path forward. The intimate story of Anna and her friends Isaac and Kate become magnified by the film's surrounding themes: gentrification, addiction, autoimmune disease, burnout, sexism in the film industry and 21st century marketing of the self.