Mariyam Zakaria

Maryam Zakaria (born in Iran) is an Iranian-Swedish actress and model.She has appeared as a model in various music videos and television advertisements, while also establishing the first Bollywood dance school in Sweden and working as a choreographer. By 2009, she moved to India and began appearing in Telugu, Tamil and Hindi films, particularly performing item numbers.

Maryam Zakaria was born in Iran and grew up in Sweden. She worked as a choreographer and established a dance school in Sweden to teach Bollywood steps. Maryam Zakaria dance school Indisk Dans Studio was the first dance school in Sweden to teach "jatkas and matkas of Bollywood cinema". She moved to Mumbai, India by 2009 to work in Bollywood and began working as a model, appearing in various television adverts, the most notable being the adverts of Set Wet and Coke.

Tamil film director Sundar C. signed her on to perform an item number in his directorial venture Nagaram (2010), after watching her dance number on YouTube. Her performance in the hit number "Diyalo Diyala" from the Telugu film 100% Love was her big breakthrough. She went on to play one of the female lead characters in another Telugu film Madatha Kaja (2011) alongside Allari Naresh.[2] In 2012, she appeared in the item number "Dilli Ki Billi" in Muazzam Beg's film Sadda Adda.