Jetinder Summan

Jetinder Summan

História

et Summan discovered his love for acting during his many performances in primary school productions. After finishing college, he realised that his passion for acting was too strong, so he applied for, and won, a scholarship to attend Birmingham School of Acting, where he thrived as an actor. Early in his career, Jet landed a role on BBC's critically acclaimed daytime television series, Doctors, closely followed by roles in mainstream television dramas: BBC dramas including Holby City, Home Time, The Belonging and comedy series ITV's Birds of a Feather. For several years, Jet played the recurring role of "Zak" in the BBC radio soap drama, Silver Street. To date, Jet has starred in lead roles in feature and short films, national television commercials and a global voice over commercial for Pepsi soft drink. In 2020, Jet won the Best Actor Award for his performance in the film Damage at the Idyllwild International Festival of Cinema in California and the Best Lead Actor at Show Low International Film Festival in Arizona, USA.

Perfil

Jetinder Summan

Filmes

Crushed Wings
Hira
Ria, a seven-year-old girl growing up in a village, is led by her mother to a place where a group of women from her community await her. Here she is mutilated by an unqualified cutter, who completes the cultural FGM-ritual that ensures she will one day be taken as a wife. The child, once old enough, goes on to be forcibly married and moved away from her family to the England. Eventually, Ria seeks help in escaping the life she is trapped in, but the life of her two younger sisters hang in the balance. Can she change her elders' minds and prevent them from being led down the same path? Or will they become three more of 200 million women across the globe whose wings have been crushed by FGM?