Tehmina Sunny

Meet Tehmina Sunny, British, Indian and American. Her charm, wit & curiosity makes her an actor's actor, a director's actor and a crew's actor. She has portrayed memorable characters in Emmy award winning TV shows, Golden Globe nominated productions & Oscar winning movies. Sunny's career took off in the Oscar winning movie 'Children of Men', directed by Alfonso Cuaron with Michael Caine, Clive Owen & Julianne Moore. 'Argo' with Ben Affleck soon followed for which she shared a SAG Award win in the Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble cast in a motion picture category. On the small screen, she has portrayed a retrospective of characters in productions including, CBS's Training Day with the late Bill Paxton, NCIS, CSI, FOX's 24: Live Another Day & The Following with Kevin Bacon. Aaron Sorkin's The Newsroom on HBO, ABC's Mistresses, CW's Sci-fi show Pandora, NBC's Primetime show, 'Chicago Med' & Netflix's glossy legal drama 'Partner Track'. Sunny previously attended the University of Leeds in England, where she studied Business Information Systems with an emphasis on Artificial Intelligence and Computer Science. This combined with marketing and business studies earned her a Bachelor of Science degree with honors. After graduating, she worked for Richard Branson's Virgin corporation. Switching gears to pursue her first love, Sunny then decided to study acting, which included training in 'Method' at the Lee Strasberg Institute, mentored by teachers who were previous students of Lee Strasberg. Sunny has taken the helm as a producer in 2022 with several TV projects underway, working with unvoiced female writers, pushing the needle forward on cutting edge projects.