Background
Born in Mumbai, Shernaz is the daughter of Gujarati stage veterans Ruby and Burjor Patel and grew up in a theatre environment.
Born in Mumbai, Shernaz is the daughter of Gujarati stage veterans Ruby and Burjor Patel and grew up in a theatre environment.
She graduated from the Elphinstone College, University of Mumbai.
She made her theatre debut with The Diary Of Anne Frank in 1984. Since then, she has acted in several noted productions in Mumbai-based English theatre, and formed RAGE theatre group in Mumbai, with Rahul da Cunha and Rajit Kapur in 1993. She did her schooling at Fort Covent school, where she participated in plays directed by Pearl Padamsee.
Subsequently she did her Masters in Acting from the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama.
She made her film debut with Mahesh Bhatt"s television film alongside Kumar Gaurav. In 1992, she performed the lead in the English play, Love Letters for the first time, along with Rajit Kapoor, under the direction of Rahul da Cunha.
The play is still being performed. In 2008 she returned to soap operas after 23 years of filming in various movies.
In 2009, she acted in screenwriter and Mira Nair"s long-time collaborator Sooni Taraporevala"s directorial debut film, Little Zizou.
In 2011 she appeared in Rockstar. In 2012, she appeared in Reema Kagti"s suspense-drama Talaash. In 2014 she performed at the Times Noida festival along with other actors such as Rajit Kapur and Neil Bhoopalam.
