Noureen deWulf

American actress Noureen DeWulf is an American actress (nee Ahmed), She is well-known for her film roles in West Bank Story (2005), Ghosts of Girlfriends Past (2009) as well as The Back-up Plan (2010). Also, she starred as Lacey in the sitcom Anger Management (2012-2014). DeWulf was born Noureen Ahmed in New York City to Gujarati Indian parents from Pune, Maharashtra, India and grew up in Stone Mountain, Georgia. She was educated as a Nizari Ismaili Muslim. She has two older sisters. Aziza, Aziza's older sister is a law professor at Northeastern University, Boston. The younger sister, Sara, practices law in San Francisco. DeWulf attended Boston University's School for the Arts and studied international relations and theatre. She relocated to Los Angeles after graduating to pursue acting as a career. She is fluent in Hindi, Urdu, and Gujarati. DeWulf's acting career began in the Oscar-nominated film West Bank Story. There she was Fatima (a Palestinian cashier who sings and dances) and fell in love with an Israeli soldier. Since then, she has worked in comedy television series and movies. From 2009 to 2011, she starred in the lead role in NBC's Outsourced, TNT's Hawthorne and MTV's The Hard Times of RJ Berger, and appeared in the Lifetime miniseries Maneater.DeWulf has been featured in several box office successes like Ocean's Thirteen (2007), and The Back-up Plan (2010). She starred alongside Matthew McConaughey's romantic comedy Ghosts of Girlfriends Past (2009) and Jeremy Piven in The Goods : Live Hard and Sell Hard (2009). The Taqwacores (2010) premiered at the Sundance Film Festival 2010 and was her main role. She was a part of The Taqwacores (2010) that premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in the year 2010. [10] In 2009, she was listed in the 'Top 30 under 30 in Nylon magazine. [citation needed[citation needed] DeWulf also appeared in pictorials in Details, Men's Health and Zink, Giant, Complex, and others.



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