Tasneem Roc is an Australian television and film actress born in Sydney to a Burmese father and Scottish mother. Tasneem attended the Turramurra High School and went on to study acting at the Australian Theatre for Young People. She graduated from the University of Sydney.

Tasneem began her career on the popular Australian television series Heartbreak High

Heartbreak High

Heartbreak High is an Australian television series that ran for seven years from 1994 to 1999. The series dealt with the students of Hartley High, a tough high school in a multi-racial area of Sydney, and proved to be a more gritty and fast-paced show than many of its contemporaries...

 in season six as activist high school student Thania Saya.

Tasneem then appeared in a guest role on ABC series Head Start

Head Start (TV series)

Head Start is an Australian television drama series that ran for forty episodes on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation in 2001.-Story:...

 as Skye Quinn, the disruptive daughter of Garrett Quinn. She also appeared as a guest on UK Sky TV football series Dream Team

Dream Team (TV series)

Dream Team is a British television series produced by Hewland International which aired on Sky1 and Sky3 from 1997 to 2007; it chronicled the on-field and off-field affairs of the fictional Harchester United Football Club....

 as home-wrecking US professional tennis player Shannon Eden-Childs.

Tasneem most recently appeared in the SBS mini-series East West 101

East West 101

East West 101 is a critically acclaimed and award-winning drama series airing on the SBS network. The series was produced and created by Steven Knapman & Kris Wyld, the team behind other drama series such as Wildside and White Collar Blue....

 as Amina Malik, a role for which she learnt some Arabic, and Islamic prayers as the wife of Muslim detective Zane Malik.

Tasneem is the daughter of author Margaret Roc

Margaret Roc

Margaret Roc is an Australian author, co-author and editor of over fifty published Fiction and Non-fiction books for children and teachers.-Biography:Margaret was born in Stirling, Scotland, the youngest of three children...

 and sister of James Roc.

Television Credits

Heartbreak High

Heartbreak High

Heartbreak High is an Australian television series that ran for seven years from 1994 to 1999. The series dealt with the students of Hartley High, a tough high school in a multi-racial area of Sydney, and proved to be a more gritty and fast-paced show than many of its contemporaries...

as Thania Saya (1998)

Head Start

Head Start (TV series)

Head Start is an Australian television drama series that ran for forty episodes on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation in 2001.-Story:...

as Skye Quinn (2001)

Dream Team

Dream Team (TV series)

Dream Team is a British television series produced by Hewland International which aired on Sky1 and Sky3 from 1997 to 2007; it chronicled the on-field and off-field affairs of the fictional Harchester United Football Club....

as Shannon Eden-Childs (2003)

East West 101

East West 101

East West 101 is a critically acclaimed and award-winning drama series airing on the SBS network. The series was produced and created by Steven Knapman & Kris Wyld, the team behind other drama series such as Wildside and White Collar Blue....

as Amina Malik (2007)

Home and Away

Home and Away

Home and Away is an Australian soap opera that has been produced in Sydney since July 1987 and is airing on the Seven Network since 17 January 1988. It is the second-longest-running drama and most popular soap opera on Australian television...

as Suzy (2009)

Spirited as Miss Viola Take (2010)

Crownies

Crownies

Crownies is an Australian television dramedy series that first screened on ABC1 in 2011. The series revolves around a group of solicitors fresh from law school, working with Crown Prosecutors or 'Crownies' who are the public prosecutors in the legal system of Australia, working for the Office of...

as Tina Chang (2011)

External links

(1) http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0733541/

(2) http://www.cosmicdancer.nl/heartbreakhigh/tasneem.htm